Great video. Thanks. It reminds me of riding shotgun with my father back in the day. Before he started any descent like that he would always say, "If something goes wrong, stay with the truck, don't try to jump". He drove a lowbed with an old Kenworth, 220 Cummins and two stick 5 and 4. Slow but steady. He overheated the brakes once coming down the hill into 100 Mile House with a D8 on the back. We went through town at about 70 mph, on the horn all the way until he got it stopped at the far end. Exciting days trucking in the early '60s.

Well done driver! We need more drivers like you on our roads to keep everyone safe out there. Be safe!

That was really interesting with you explaining the different scenarios as you came down the mountain . You made it easy to follow along and understand . Every person on the road should see this video to understand what truckers are up against when navigating these mountains , epically very heavy loads like you just did . Very very very Well Done !! Hats off to ya !

I really appreciate the technical aspects of driving a big rig down a mountain pass. Thanks.

Very interesting to watch! I think i'd be a nervous wreck the first few times..

Brother drove all his life. He got his first semi when I was 13. Have never driven one of those new-fangled Roadranger transmission that everyone knew were a fad and would never catch on in the bush! Now they have automatics! My worst experience was spinning out at 14 on a hill where I had to make a right angle turn onto a single lane bridge. You never forget that type of an experience. And this was in the days of arm-strong steering. Must be nice not having to crawl under and adjust the brakes. Became legal in 1956 and did some highway trips but most of my driving was on side roads in the central/northern interior of B.C. Thanks for the video. Shows how much times have changed.

Great stuff mate… 62 plus tons negotiated beautifully and confidently👍👍👍 You Canadians have ba**s of steel when it comes to dealing with icy / snow capped mountainous roads, kudos to you… Greetings from Aus

Good video. Nice to how the other half makes a crust. Gives a good insight into hard it is on the road for truckies. Travel safely.

Great Video Thank You You are True Professional And Thank You For Your Service to the Industry. Take Care/Happy Shifting!

I really enjoyed your video. Thankyou.

Lovely vid! I really appreciate it.

I thank you for your in depth detail coming down this hill. I am not a truck driver although I have driven once or twice with out this challenge. I appreciate the courage and dedication that it is required from drivers such as your self. Again thank you for this video it was enlightening informative to us common drivers.

Well done brother. Thank you for this informative video. It is very important for mediocre or no drivers out there to see and learn from So thank you so very much and for it's worth good luck with the very bad market trackers going through right now.

Great training video,this is what needs to be taught to new drivers. Not just a a bit of city driving.Understanding that you need to be extra cautious first time on a hill.Thanks for making the video

Retired log truck owner here. Definitely a long and steep hill. Highway 99 going south down toward Pemberton is a bit steeper if I remember 13% on and off for about 8 miles. Interesting video of how the automatic trans. operates. Never drove or owned one though. Retired in 2012----last truck had Jake & Retarder-----great combination but don't think is available any more. Stay safe

nice video sir keep it up with the truck vlogs. subbed

Music very distracting while trying to listen to what your explaining at the beginning !. Otherwise great job !!

Upsalquitch hill in New Brunswick is 11% but I’d say it’s all of 12% if not more. Great job sir

Love it , some good education for some rookies to take note of...

Excellent training ❤❤❤ excellent

Ive done that hill a few times in the winter, i never let my tractor run more than 30 k, took a while to get down. but i did get there.

Good tunes playing in the background! Great driving tape if I say myself, retired truck driver here, I'm old school, automatic 🤢🤮 18 speed definitely!

In Sask, the air brake applied test for a tractor/trailer combination is 4 PSI max loss in 1 minute.

i see you really understand Air Brakes and make a very good Instructor. On a hill like that, a person would really have to follow everything to a tee, like what you did, or else one Hell of a situation to live through, especially in the winter road conditions.

Great video and camera work showing all the gauges. Were you using the Jake? I think you were in just one setting? How many settings on the Western Star? I think some drivers go in and out of the different jake settings, 1,2,3 in a long decent down a hill? As you can see, I'm not a truck driver.

Great job with both driving down the hill safely and with the video explaining to viewers what you were doing. If you were driving a manual would you pick a gear to come down the hill at the top and stay in that gear all the way down ? even though it would take you longer Best Wishes from Tasmania

Right mint training vid. Competent negotiating. I bet you've done it enough on that hill, can do with eyes closed. This needs to be subtitled in dugaduga so they learn not to follow 10ft off your tail. I was taught, what speed you go up, the same going down. Pretty much perform the same procedures you do when i'ze hauling treelength into Thunder Bay. Keep up the good vids.

I took the air brakes course in 1985, in Princeton BC. I knew the hiways well, and I knew the winters well. I passed the course, but I knew I was never doing this for a living. Became a welder instead.

great vid! throw a code reader in the diag port and clear that ckc engine light lol

Glenn nice improvement running the hill with super sets, means less time prying out rocks from between the tires. Thanks for the memories running between Cochrane to Skook at night. I did it for 2yrs and the joys of having tourists decide to slow down to look at the sheep just before the tunnel at the 11% grade, well more then once my brakes were applied sending clouds of smoke out right into Radium till they cooled off. I miss the run but now with only one eye do to a lease operator's deciding to cut corners on safety, I can only make the run in my pick up now.

I subscribed in hopes of some more trucking videos

* PSI lost over 2 minutes is the air brake standard for the leak test. Very courageous to do this in an automatic.

If you haven't tried the little hill from Rossland BC down to Trail BC give it a try. Its a whole 'nother level of fun

Nicely done... What engine ? ISX ? Having a map at the top of the mountain is a really good idea. Especially for drivers that have never run that section of highway, because it has so many changes in the grade. I drove for 40 years but only drove an automatic one time for about a month. That was enough.

What truck make and model is that? I don't recognize the dashboard or the hood.

Im on the highways quite often, not as a truck driver but in company van. Now I know why i see trucks on fire and smoking brakes on the side of the road. What do you rate the Coquihalla at in terms of risk for a trucker. There's a pretty steep area for about 2km from one brake check stop.

Interesting video, it shows you have travelled this road many times, and know this hill well. This video, if for training and information purposes. You might have added engines have a higher (compression) braking capability running your rpms closer to the 'red line' [sic] zone. That is why you maintained the higher rpms. But, with transmission and rear end gear ratios being different in most trucks. Why did you place priority on gear selection over road speed. Different transmission/ rear end ratio = different rpm and/or road speed per gear.

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Going to skookumchuck mill I take it? Been there done that have the papers. Ha 👍🏻

What are you hauling?

You can come down a steep hill too slow many many times. But you only come down a hill too fast once !!! Nice work driver and safe home.

Nice work true driver great work arrive alive😅😅😅

No engine brake use, just gears?

Funny guy . I've been driving truck in Canada for 45 years and I know of a lot steeper hills in BC than that

What about a Jake brake?

Run this hill a million times. Easy run. Just take it slow,

Brother make pov truck video please

The radio is super annoying

Turn off the radio, please !

That's nothing. Hiway 4 to has 18% grades to Tonino is far more challenging than what you posted. Mt. Polley in BC is more challenging. Manic 5 in Quebec is 18%

The grades and the weather are not the dangerous things ,there are 3 factors that are the most dangerous first is the inexperienced trucker second is the inexperienced car driver third and probably the worst are the so called "super truckers" who drive way way way too fast for road conditions, causing accidents and busting everyone's windshield in the process, I drove truck for over 30 years and not once was I paid more for getting it there faster.....

You never should have put this on you tube. Gilbeau will be coming after you for making diesel smoke !!!

Hi That definitely is not the steepest bloody Road in Canada by no means I hold wood chips for 10 years all over Washington Idaho California and British Columbia then I bought my own Super B decks and I threw it around North America and I can tell you where you are right now is a walk in the park you don't have to worry about your brakes if you pre-select the right gear I just put your Jake on if it's got a jake and retarder use that you don't have to use your brakes got my license for a class one when I was 16 after I had been driving logging truck a Northern Alberta for 8 months dude came from Edmonton I met him with a load of logs on and he just filled the paperwork out and I signed it that was my license and if you think that Steep and it's dangerous goat Ben Hall Trucking quad Max downloads as heavy as you are on the steepest mountains from top to bottom all over BC because those are or could be fatal and I did that with a self loader on for 4 years I'm 62 years old and I'm retired I guess everybody's got to learn I'm not knocking you because there are far too many immigrants that come here that can't even drive a Volkswagen and they're driving Highway trucks all over hell's half acre killing everybody but I'm certain your information is vital for new drivers and then saying this great video Cheers 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Dude that's not even clost to the steepest theres 12% grades out there and theres a road to Bella Coola you have to split trains because its like 18 - 20 % For the smasher and the kootenay pass and stuff I use the brakes all the time. not to mention I didnt watch enough to see where this was but if its kootenay then thats nott the rockies anymore its the columbia mountains. source : BC born and raised and trucker.( b trains with 18 speed)

Yup BC hiway 93 though the park and down to Radium and the Columbia Rvr Valley one of the steepest downhill gradients in the province. And its not just the grade that is an issue, there are a lot of tight left and right bends. Both east and west slopes of the Rogers Pass have their challenges also. Kootenay Pass both west and east approaches have significant gradient over length ... Nuttin boring in haulin ass around this province. Did I miss something ...jakes applied or not ?? really quiet if they were on.

Thinking about getting into the industry. Living in Vancouver Canada. The problem I see is no companies train drivers like they do in the states. The pay seems low. Companies advertise at .65 cents a mile. Is it worth getting into the industry? Any advice would be appreciated. Owner operator seems to do pretty well 🤷

I been on this road in the middle of winter with way more snow then this with automatic truck and nothing happened , piece of cake . Don't be a drama queen lol

Auto trans in trucks are for Nancy boys who can’t shift Roar Ranger gearbox ,,,Me being ex trucker from Australia I refused to drive or own them ,that’s my 10 cents worth cheers Nancy boys ..No malice in this message 🤐🤐😎👍🦘🇦🇺🧌