Just wanted to say thank you to all the Truckers out there. You are part of what makes America Great! Thank you for all you do. Stay safe and God Bless!
Always wanted one of them fancy shifter knobs but the kids ate up so much of the cheque there never was anything left. Did have them there fancy bumper sticks with lights on top. Don't see them anymore either. Take care and God bless ya
I can still feel my stomach draw up just watching this truck come off Wolf Creek. I'm a old trucker that can say they went up and over Wolf Creek with a 250 Humming Cummings with a 10 speed road ranger transmission with no Jake brake when it was a 2 lane highway with no guard rail. Drivers would prop the driver's door open with their foot and hope and pray that we made it to the top and then pray we made it to the bottom alive. We lost a lot of drivers back then on that pass. Stay safe drivers from old Step Child.
When you go down a steep grade, your goal should be to choose a gear where the third jake position slows you down, the second maintains speed, and the first gains speed. Then you control your speed mainly with the jake switch. Saves your brakes.
@@vicschierling9946 Your at about the time that trucks still could drive over Sonora Pass... Boy was she a beauty - I personally have watch trucks from behind hang one of their rear trailer tires on the edge of a straight drop in the S turn at the top. Boy it use to one hell of a nice drive - then a lot of asshole build homes on god's country - it's now just a suburban blight in my mind.
There is video of that semi going through the cement guardrail. It was from the dash cam of another truck driver coming up the pass from the other direction. The truck driver's name was Rifat Podzic. He was ejected from the truck and died. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L6Yww5BtdME.htmlsi=dF3vAiGa4ym_irvz
My full time commute to work for 15 years, and it's cool to see it from the truck drivers perspective - up high like that, definitely a better view than from a car!
One of the most marvelous inventions ever... the Jake Brake. Because without it, this video would have ended 30 seconds in with a brake fire and a horrific crash. That is one mean mountain, good job my friend!!
I have an I Idea, go down It without the Jake like we did In my day. You sure don't want to start down It In the gear you came up It!! Not with the engines of today. Whole different way of driving. I will quit when all you can get is an automatic transmission.Maybe go to greasing them or maybe dispatching. Hmmm probably get just as dirty either way. Have. Y'all be careful and GODSPEED!!!
And to think who invented it. Mr Cummins himself invented it after he retired from his own company. He took it back to them and was told no we are not interested, so he started another company, the Jacob's engine brake manufacturing company. It was an add on to Cummins engines till the 90's when Cummins came out with the C-brake.
Amazing video Luke. Great to see it again. We did it once in January when we were young and foolish with a heavy load. It was in heavy snow and the road was partially snow covered. I smoked the clutch going up and smoked the brakes going down. Had to stop and cool them off . Thanks for sharing!
Ah Yes Elizabeth, Unfond memories on other passes, to the proverbial "Smokem If You Gottem" & take a Restroom Break, ... Afterwards My Almost waterloo was Lewiston Idaho which isnt even that big a hill.
I looked at Earl, his eyes was wide, his lip was curled, and his leg was fried, and his hands was stuck to the wheel like a tongue stuck to a sled in the middle of a blizzard...
I could already tell he was going fast before the last emergency ramp. And over and over and over, them signs are not meant for semi trucks. They are for cars only. The required speed limit was posted on the summit pass near the ski lodge. New drivers I swear!
Back in the 60s we ended up dragging our feet through the overlook to help stop my dads station wagon towing a camp trailer that had no brake fluid finally got it stopped on the opposite side of the road that was the high point in a vacation to New Mexico. Will never forget the Eagle Nest overlook.
Wolf Creek pass is so safe these days. I remember driving it in the late 80's early 90's before all the road construction. That's when it was just downright dangerous
I68 is probably the last really bad stretch of interstate nowadays. 13 miles of 6 percent grades. Few to no runaway ramps. Straight through the appalachians. MM23 on the westbound side, right before the mountain, has a truck stop with a really decent restaurant.
That first Hairpin turn 3:39 that you said might be an overlook is where many a loaded truck met it's end. When they choose not to take that last Turn Out they only had less than 10 seconds to live. The wild life viewing area is a really nice water fall on the left. Be Safe out there.
Father in-law hauled containers for zircon all over those passes he telling me that truckers from the east come over Wolf creek pass don't follow the speed limit fly off that 20mph turn you have there. He said only one guy survived he knew of jumped from his truck.
The first time I was on Wolf Creek Pass it was the old highway I had been driving 4 months my trainer was in the back and it was night and snowing like hell I thought I was going to die. He woke up and saw we were on the pass and yelled at me for not pulling over and let him drave across the pass that was in '86
Yeah, back in 97 I went down a pass in the rockies at night, snowing and the trainer was sleeping. He was surprised when he woke up 3/4 of the way down.
That is a beautiful area. We go to Pagosa Springs very year to ski Wolf Creek. When we got there on Jan 2nd, they had 100 inches of snow since October. We had an amazing time.
The 1st time I went down that hill it was without Jake brakes. This driver is on the new highway. I was on the old one. It was a lot worse then. With more hairpin curves.
@@lukewinkels6393 I was. Did Heavy Haul, for about ten years, living in a Pete. I live about fifty miles from Wolf Creek. Retired after 9/11, when trucking bottomed out.
Did that on my laptop and i was looking down at that little hood mirror too lol. Doesn't matter how long your on the road you don't drive the same again. Never got to go over Wolf Creek yet, but only drove for 3 years. Ah well, thats what a summer vacation is for.
Just 2 days ago I came up the western slope where that "curve " is located. It is actually a switch back and the concrete retaining wall there is battered with a lot of black marks and chunks missing. A lot of trucks have gone over the edge in that area & it is easy to see how it could happen. A truck driver who over estimates the trucks brakes or underestimates the lethality of the curve will be in trouble.
Video showing a driver going over the cliff 7 days ago, right there at that scenic overlook. Driver caught it on video as he was coming around that turn. Showed him being ejected and I’m sure if the fall didn’t kill him the debris from the truck did.
Cars don't have patience lol I drove my Mercedes on this pass yesterday I just left the car in 3rd gear coasting at 45 mph when there is a double yellow line just put it in 2nd when behind a truck at 25 mph. I never had to use my service brakes in my car 😁 engine braking is fun!
I went down 'er in the early 90's with a T 600 with no jake brakes and moderate snowfall. Made it just fine but definitely had sweaty palms when I got down off the pass. Been many times since with jakes. Much better that way.
Did this drive a few times,last time in Sep 2016.A lot of construction for a few years.. Always took a picture at the top..signage "Wolf Creek Pass elevation 10,857 ft The Great Continental Divide" No day dreaming here..but a beautiful drive, even though I hate Heights.. make sure you have good brake rotors or you are in for a long,long hellish drive going down, as i experienced...especially with the truckers on my back bumper
I drove through Colorado about 20 years ago in a Camry and just couldn’t handle the curves even at the recommended speed limit. I felt like the car was going to tip over. Even Toyota 4 runners were passing me. I was embarrassed.
No joke... If in winter you don't have chains, don't push the uphill cause you may turn downhill and won't sotp until hitting the mountain or going over the side ! Oh GAWD, slow down and enjoy the scenery because its hard to locate all of you if you go over the barriers (if you hit one), or plunge like a long distance skier... Anyway, been there/done that with n without engine brakes, on bicycles and many a time in my car(s) middle of winter and blizzard snow. Drove the mail route DEN-DURANGO night driving... 😳, Yup !
We have hauled our travel trailer over a pass or three out there and no F*ing way I would pass tractor trailer on those downslopes. These guys know those roads so if they are careful, so were we!
If you want to drive roads like that, head to the high Atlas mountains in Morroco. Gravel, narrow, blind hairpins, overloaded trucks, fabulous vistas. No guard rails! My girlfriend kept repeating, "We're gonna die! "
I use to pull over at the bottom at the viewing area. I could smell smoking hot brakes even on cars and small pickups at they drove passed. I don't think most people realize how hot their brakes are getting going down that.
It was my first time on this road, didn't realize I would be taking the convoy song pass, I was quite thrilled doing it. It does look scary on the video but I had no problems keeping it under control. My kids and grandchildren loved it. That's why I took the video unplanned and spontaneous. Thanks for watching.
Should google maps or at least the _Trucker Path_ app include the speed warnings? Should there be small amber diamond icons with the speeds (ie *25* -> 🔶 ) for sharp curves in addition to (or instead of) the road numbers (ie i-70, i-25, etc)?
I had Habib pissed off at me while decending with a 90k drill rig on one time, I was doing 15mph and his brakes were smoking and he was on my ass swerving right and left and flashing his headlights at me and when he passed me he flipped me off while leaning over the passenger seat!! Take your time and do your own thing and let them wreck!!
For those of you who don't know when you go across the Wolf Creek Pass pay your respects to the wolf because if you don't the wolf will kill you be sure to drop gears coming down many men have died on the wolf because they did not respect the wolf
Dude, Just my opinion , If this is your first time on Wolfe creek pass don’t you think your going to fast down the mountain ???? Please be safe , America needs our truckers ❤️ Yes way to fast !!!!!
He was not too fast he very seldom had to touch his brake pedal, as for him passing another truck the other truck could have been loaded to max legal weight while the truck passing was light. But the fact that he only had to add brakes now and then says he knows a lot more about what hes doing than you. And we are all thankful for that.
I don't remember that but the Jake brake held it all the way down I only had to tap the brakes lightly to slow down to 20 mph or whatever the posted speed was. But I will agree, even I get on edge watching my own video, yet actually driving down the hill I felt perfectly under control. Mind you I only have 36 years experience, so it's all a bit new to me.
