Pt 1. New Truck Drivers, watch this before going down the South Eastern Freeway into Adelaide.
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- New truck driver to Adelaide? 1:47
Preparing descending South Eastern Freeway into Adelaide.
0.05 Signs to look out for on the approach to the steep descent.
If you have never driven a truck into Adelaide down the South Eastern Freeway, watch this first. The slides at the start of the video show you the signs to look for as you get close to the descent.
There are heavy penalties for unsafe descent if.
1. You use your foot brakes at any point to adjust your speed. This suggests the incorrect gear was chosen and you will be penalised if caught.
2. You exceed 60km/h during the descent.
3. Any unsafe driving will attract heavier penalties on this stretch of freeway.
4. 2x Safety ramps are there for emergencies. Heavy fees apply for all emergencies and non emergency use of these ramps. Don't risk it. Select the right gear.
Important note.
The Cross Rd, Port rush Rd traffic lights are at the bottom of the hill. Heavy braking may be required at this intersection. Save your brakes for this intersection or you may be added to the list of fatal accidents at this intersection involving trucks that couldn't stop.
Can we see a full pov vid going down like the going up vid
I may have a full descent available. I will see if it is any good today. Not exactly the same POV view.
I'm off work for a few weeks, but I will aim to record one on my return.
In a loaded B double, is 40km/h safe? I haven't gone down that hill yet, but I told myself if I ever do I would use the bottom box in 4 high range. So it might do about 25km/h or less.
Yeah, 25km/h sounds more reasonable. This video was taken in a Scania at 56.5 Tonnes. Scanias have unbelievable hill holding. With all the penalties that apply here, you are much better off being 1 gear too slow than 1 gear too high.
The hill itself isn't that scary. The fines and consequences for getting it wrong are the scary bit.
@drivingsouthernaustralia perfect thank you for the advice. I always worried if I went too slow I'd force all the other trucks to overtake me and they can't use their brakes, but that's probably overthinking it.
@ESPSJ all good. Hope it helps.
The no braking rule is a bit dumb because it makes people overthink.... Don't overthink the fines for things like braking. If you have a truck like mine doing 40km approaching your truck doing 25km and I can't safely change lanes to go around you. I'm braking. I do it often and it's completely safe because my brakes are cold and my braking is not excessive. The no braking rule is there to penalise those who want to run down the hill in the wrong gear to make up time, riding their brakes along the way only to realise that they can no longer stop in time for the red light at the bottom of the hill. It happens too often, so that's why these sometimes questionable laws apply. A bit of common sense and you'll get to the bottom of the hill wondering what all the fuss was about.
@@jasedrivessa That makes a lot of sense, thanks for clearing it up for me. It's funny that the authorities make pretty much zero attempts at educating people what the right thing to do is, most of their info about this hill and others just makes people overthink it, which usually leads to mistakes. When I did my MC license, it was so easy. In fact it was way too easy, which is concerning. No mention about downhill descents, among many other important things they don't teach.