Steepest grade you ever pulled or went down.....

Cabbage is actually Emigrant Hill, although no one calls it that. Or you get people calling it Dead Man's Pass sometimes. This is the reference I found online.
From
"Oregon Geographic Names" by Lewis A. McArthur, published by Oregon Historical Society Press
Cabbage Hill
Locally, this refers to what is actually Emigrant Hill, or I-84. According to McArthur, Cabbage Hill is actually a long spur extending down Emigrant Hill, ending at Table Rock at McKay Creek. The name "Cabbage Hill" comes from a garden containing cabbages on land owned by Mr. Huderman, near the top of the slope. It was named that by G.L. Dunn, of Gibbon, who was herding sheep in the area. The name was adopted and has been used ever since.

Cabbage can be a nasty bit of work if you don't pay attention. I've seen a number of trucks come off it smoking. The truck before the one I'm in didn't have a jake brake, it had a party favor, and I ended up smoking my brakes once. Not badly enough to completely lose them, but between no real engine brake, and no trailer brakes (which I'd just found out) it was pretty unpleasant.

 

I´ve got several but 10% for 3 miles on ice and snow then 3 miles of flat road then 3 miles downhill also 10% with about 80000 lbs of weight in Norway

 

14% hill just out of Riviere Reynard on the tip of the Gaspe Penninsula in Quebec. It begins about 1 trucklength past the traffic light on the north end of town. Before you reach the top you're watching your rpm going down and you got no gears left. Real treat in winter when there's slippery spots and cars behind you.

 

Not sure if anybody said it yet but when your on CA 62 and go to Big Bear on the 247 and go to the 18 and take a left. That grade suggest nothing over a 30ft? trailer I think. The grade is about 16%IIRC and I did that in my pickup. It is steep and curvy as heck. 10mph curves. Going on the 247 out to there there is a couple of grades that are well over 10%. One is not marked but is probably 18 maybe 20% but not more then a 1/4 mile long. It is a crappy drive in my F-250 with a powerstroke which is nowhere near stock so I could not even imagine trying to do it in a big truck loaded up to 80K...

 

yap this has turned to who has the biggest d#$k.lol.

 

It would be nice to go icetrucking for a while, flat ice haha nice tough job..........

 

21% downgrade

 

I GOTA COOL STORY OF HILLS DUDES--I WAS WORKING FOR NATIONWIDE SOUTH EAST OUTA CT----WE RAN 90 PERCENT OF THE TIME TO QUAD GRAFFICS IN SARATOGA SPRINGS UP PAST ALBANY NEW YORK,TO DROP OFF AND GET LOADED THAT WAS THE START OF MOST TRIPS,,I WAS RUNNING LATE I DID NOT CHECK THE PAPER WORK AND HEADED UP RT 7 TO RT 80 HEADING FOR RT 87 ON TOP OF SOME BIG HILL ON RT 80 THERES A TRUCK STOP I PULL IN CHECK THE LOAD DIRECTIONS --O SH-T IAM HEADED FOR A DIIFERENT PART OF NEWYORK ,ITS BEEN A WHILE AWWWWWTHINK IT WAS CANUDAGWA NEWYORK WITCH IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE KATSKILL MOUTAINS,,IN NY I CHECK MY MAP AND DECIDE ME BEING A DARING BACK ROADS OFF ROUTE TYPE OF TRUCKER,,no saTELIGHT TRACTOR,IAM TAKING RT 39 RIGHT OVER THE KATSKILL MOUNTAINS ITS DEC IN WINTER,ITS LIKE 730AM THE RADIOS BEEN SAYING THE AREAS EXPECTING FLURIES AROUND 10-11 AM I SAY WOW I CAN JUST MAKE IT ITS LIKE 40 SOME IDD OR MORE MILES OVER THE MOUNTAINS TO THE NEXT MAJOR HIGH WAY----THE VIEW WAS AWSOME--GREAT LITTEL TOWNS EVEN SAW A REAL LIFE PARTRIDGE FAMILY BUS PARKED ON SOME ONES LAWN--NICE--ALL WAS GOOD --GREAT BUT I KEEPT CLIMBING MOUNTAINS SAW A BIG SKY AREA BY THE TOP OF ONE NICE TOWN NOW ABOUT 20 MILES IN I KEEP GETTING TO SIGNS TELLING TRUCKLS TO BEWARE OF STEEP GRADES ONE AFTER ANTHOR AND ITS START SNOWING OUT HARD IAM SCREWED IAM TO FAR IN TO TURN AROUND AND GO BACK TO 80 AND I DONT KNOW HOW FAR TO THE NEXT MAJOR HIGH WAY NO MORE LITTEL TOWN IAM OUT BY A RESIVOIR AND WOODS AND HAD BEEN GOING DOWN HILLS IN FIRST GEAR WITH OUT NO JAKE BRAKE ON THE JUNKIE TRACTOR,,LOOKING OF THESE CLIFFS LIKE 15 STORYS DOWN TO THE WATER SCARDED BADLY NO ITS A BLIZZARD ALMOST,I FINALY GET TO WHAT I THOUGHT WAS THE LAST DOWN HILL BEWAR SIGN AND HAD TO STOP THE HILL CURVED YOU COULD NOT SEE AROUND IT THERES 7 INCES ON THE GROUND AND NO PLOW TRUCK PLOWING YET,I PUT ON THE 4 WAY FLASHER AND DECIDE TO WAITY ITY OUT ITS TO DAM RISKY AND DANGEROUS I WILL CALL TOWN FOR PLOW TRUCK,,NO SERVICE ON PHONE IN THAT AREA,DAMMMM,,I DECIDE TO GO KNOCK ON THIS HOUSES DOOR I WAS PARKED IN FRONT TO ASK TO USE THER PHONE TO CALL --THE GUY WAS HOME AND TURNED OUT TO BE A SCHOOL MAINTENCE MAN AND PARTIME FIRE MAN,HE SAID THE HILL SO BAD THERES BEEN 4 DEATH IN 2 YEARS ON IT,AWW DAMMMM.END PART ONE.

 

PART 2 THE HILL BY CONSTRUCTION JIM-TRUE STROY-TO MAKE REAL LONG STORY SHORT THE DUDES REAL NICE LETS ME INSIDE HIS HOUSE ,WE USE HIS HOME PHONE TO CALL THE TOWN DPW FOR PLOWING,AND I HANG OUT WITH THIS DUDE FOR A HALF HOUR BS--ING MOSTLY ABOUT HOW BAD THE ROADS AND MOUNTAINS WERE IN THAT AREA ,THE TOWN TRUCK DRIVERS A WISE GUY,,WE HAIR HIM COMING RUN OUT THE HOUSE HE DRIVES BY WITH OUT STOPING LIKE 40MPH RIGHT DOWN THE HILL WITH CHains not sanding we wait a while he flys up the hill passes us the other way with out sanding we try to stop him by waving like for a hilicopter to land no dice he flys bys and leaves,,so now iam pisses the hills so slick i cant walk on it with out falling down,,,i use the guys home phone a second time to call the town to get the crazy plow driver back to sand he comes back an half hour latter and sands ,i still am scared to go down the mountain,,while a low bed trailer driver passes us standing there and right down the mountain,,i talk the home owner into driving down the mountain in his 4by4 dodge dekota pick up,so i can see how bad it is ,the first bend was a little hairy but then it was more a gradual grade and not that bad,the took me to the bottom to town 5miles away then back up the hill to his house telling me the story of his farmer nabor that was killed on the hill that sumer by a 18 WHEELER WHILE THE CROSSED THE ROAD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HILL ON HIS FARM TRACTOR----ANY WAYS THE GUY WOULD NOT TAKE ANY MONEY FOR HIS GAS OR PHONE CALLS BUT TOLLED ME IF I EVER PASS THROUGH AGAIN MAKE SURE TO BRING A CASE OF BEER AND GAVE ME THE BEST ROUTE OUTA THERE AND HOW MANY MILES ,I LEFT AND AFFTER LIKE 10 MORE REAL BAD UP AND DOWN TWISTY MOUNTAINS I MADE IT TO A BY NOW BLIZZARD COVERED MAJOR HIGH WAY AND MY STOPS IN CANWADGWA new york my dispatch never new were i was out of route or how much time i wasted atleast 2 or more hours,,,,i will never forget those hills real bad,,side road crap,,i drove over the catskill moutains in a snow storm,hhaaa funny to look back now not at the time talking to my self to calm down scared sh-tless,,i will never forget the dude on the rt39 mountain if i get up ther i will bring him a caSE OF BEER IF IT TAKES ME TEN YEARS,BACK AT THE NATIONWIDE YARD THAT NIGHT I WAS TALKING TO THE INTERNATIONAL TRActor --thanks you old bird thanks ,that truck goit me over and down those mountains with no jake,,glade i hAD THE SENSCE TO PULL OVER AND STOP ALSO HELPED THE BRAkes cool down and give the truck and tranny a rest,,a newbie outa school would have crashed and burned iam sure.

 

CA-20 between Willits and Fort Bragg. 20% for 3mi. and curvy as hell. Sign at Willits end says 31' max kingpin length. Mine was 47'. What a nightmare.