{"id":17491,"date":"2024-12-27T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T19:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/best-route-without-so-many-hills-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T19:43:08","slug":"best-route-without-so-many-hills-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/best-route-without-so-many-hills-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Best route without so many hills | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tWhat are you grossing ?<\/p>\n<p>Over  80k ?<\/p>\n<p>If so , what\u2019s you\u2019re permitted route ?<\/p>\n<p>if you\u2019re not over 89 or 90k<\/p>\n<p>you\u2019re not loaded heavy .<\/p>\n<p>you\u2019re just loaded normal weight for what your rig was designed to haul <\/p>\n<p>I routinely grossed 80-85k with a 1982 International 9670 cabover with a 350 horsepower Cummins and a 9 speed and leaf springs on the drive axles .<\/p>\n<p>yeah, it was a little slow up some hills , but I did it for years .<\/p>\n<p>you just flip on the engine fan override to get the fan going before you hit the hill, turn on the flashers ,  and keep dropping gears till you get to the top .<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve gone over or through all the big climbs in the south <\/p>\n<p>Blood Mountain hwy 129 in north Georgia , mont eagle in Tennessee ,<br \/>Ocoee gorge in Tennessee <\/p>\n<p>nantahala gorge in NC\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n\tfbq('init', '1812746315680142'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/best-route-without-so-many-hills.2517935\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are you grossing ? Over 80k ? If so , what\u2019s you\u2019re permitted route ? if you\u2019re not over 89 or 90k you\u2019re not loaded heavy . you\u2019re just loaded normal weight for what your rig was designed to haul I routinely grossed 80-85k with a 1982 International 9670 cabover with a 350 horsepower&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}