peterm:
Drift:
I once climbed the matterhorn, does that count?I did it with a twin split and two injectors knackered and grossing sixty ton.
That’s exactly how I felt 
muckles:
bertiebus:
10Had to reverse up this drive a few 2 years back.
Boss wouldn’t believe how bad I said it was so took a few pics for himMaybe not ultra steep but icy. With a corner. Was great fun In an auto boxed daf
That looks like real challenge, and I bet you had to make sure your load was well secure.
Did you show you boss the picture at that angle as well.
Tis this android thing. Cant pur pics up right.
Shook me load big time back up it…was last drop so only had 2 180ltr water heaters on.
Hi everyone, don’t post much but saw this thread. Only driving about 16 months but worst I’ve dealt with is the A595 from Dalton-in-Furnace up to Millom in the Lake District with a Scania R440 midlift and a 13m. Also done the A5 then A470 from Chirk to Llandudno. Not advisable, the town Llanrwst is exceptionally tight!
Those two tight turns are fun in Llanrwst with the overhang on my rigid
The road leading down into Applecross can be a bit naughty at times …
Lockerbie to eskdalemuir in a ford D2014 tipper, 4 over 4 gearbox, umbrella type handbrake wi cough cough a full load o grit on and a gritter box over the back door.
I got half way up twiglees hill(before it was widened (had a cattle grid them dys) when I ran out o gears
I reversed tae the bottom turned and reversed up ,turned again continued to the last hill before Eskdalemuir did this again and unloaded across from the secret civil defence bunker.(across the river from J cartners yard).
Most frightening was in Canada of highway 3 in Alberta just off the crowsnest pass in winter in a Volvo wi a 53ft er.
I phoned the builder up for directions and was told the roads covered in snow but you will make it from this direction(follow instructions)…so chains on and spun and cursed all the way up the snowcovered gravel road took around half an hour managed to wiggle in to the housebuild …
well finally got unloaded and then the bad news a truck coming up to unload had ditched and there was no way past,so I asked any other way out to the main road ■■..I wish I hadn’t bothered .
If you can manage to make the turn go down the other side o the mountain,its not bad ,a man o your experience ,etc 
well of I went kin tight to make the right hand turn out the gate ,crawling over the top o the mountain …no tyre tracks and started the drop down (the road went straight down for a couple o miles then at the bottom you ■■■■ near doubled back on yourself(right hand) and back up the other side )
Engine growling in low gear I was feeling ok about this THEN silence and a lurch and off I bloody well flew downhill,the bloody engine stopped ahhhhhhhhh I had knocked the engine brake on when I was kin about with the difflocks getting out of the gate and it stalled the engine ,door open I knocked the switch off started up it jumped around a bit but grabbed some traction flew round the tight right hander with the trailer in the outside ditch…for some reason it didn’t tip pulled out onto gravel again ,I grabbed a gear and crawled up to the top and stopped.
The builders had decieded to follow me down as they were going to get lunch ,they drew along side and told me they had never seen anything like that before and go and buy a lottery ticket .
the rest o the way was a doddle ,I still think o this in a cold sweat ,nearest ive came to doing my self in. jimmy
Zanfta:
A9 @ Berriedale.
Tight uphill bend. Must take all road.
Like a lottery as you can’t see oncoming vehicles!
DAF 510 44t 1st high all way up!
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Ps. The one at the top of screenshot!
That is a beauty of an incline with 2 dog leg bends 
if the driver who is coming down the hill has any sense the will allow the truck coming up the hill the right of way as you have to use all the road to get around heading towards Thurso.
Is there some vids on you tube showing the abnormal load lads going up there carrying wind farm tackle? I bet they had to shut the road off to allow them to get around, plus you can just about get around in a normal artic God knows how them lads do it. I wouldn’t like to go down it in winter, one false move and you are over the edge of the cliff heading towards the North Sea
Drift:
Most hills in my 114 340 loaded
The A458 at Much Wenlock is soooooo embarrassing its quicker for me to do a detour
Greetings Drift,
Ya beat me to the Harley Hill, Much Wenlock A458 number. First time I challenged that one
was in Winter - full load of non-prime steel coil on for Broseley, Telford. Bet you remember it for the same reason… progressive killer climb… 90degs’ left… then steeper again!!!
Second run on the same day to the same place; concrete block artic hadn’t quite made it
at the top. Luckily the plod was there waving me round the stranded guy…
simon1958:
Drift:
Most hills in my 114 340 loaded
The A458 at Much Wenlock is soooooo embarrassing its quicker for me to do a detourGreetings Drift,
Ya beat me to the Harley Hill, Much Wenlock A458 number. First time I challenged that one
was in Winter - full load of non-prime steel coil on for Broseley, Telford. Bet you remember it for the same reason… progressive killer climb… 90degs’ left… then steeper again!!!
Second run on the same day to the same place; concrete block artic hadn’t quite made it
at the top. Luckily the plod was there waving me round the stranded guy…
Just you think you have cracked it you go around a bend and run out of steam
The best is plod are waiting for you with a camera when you are flying down around a bend on the downhill direction
I came down Porlock hill in July, following a bus who must have had a super crawler gear. I was in 1st gear and still had to ride the brakes to avoid rear ending him.
Then of course as busses do, he stopped half way down the hill…
I tried to… Nothing, may as well have stuck my feet through the floor flintstones style.
Thankfully, and Christ knows how, he pulled away just as my bumper was about to meet his. This carried on the rest of the way down the hill into the village. How I didn’t hit him on several occasions still baffles me.
This was in my car It does weigh 2.5t though!
I will never drive a lorry anywhere near there!
… Pulled in at Birch Services, westbound one night for tacho break. I’d only been in there for about 10 minutes when I saw what I thought was a new line in ‘Truck Bling’.
Apparently. another artic was just rolling in and clearly looking for a parking space.
When he was stationary, I noticed a bright orange glow under his trailer around the axles.
Thinking this was a new trend in boy-racer underlights now applied to trucks, it wasn’t till I saw the occasional sparks dropping from the brakes I realised, Windy Hill must have taken
it’s toll…
I followed a Actros artic up the m1 last week ,I did a good deed by telling the driver that his n.s.r trailer disc was see through to the point of competing with TATA steel !, probably saving him or the firm a roadside bearing failure or blow out .
Dan Punchard:
I followed a Actros artic up the m1 last week ,I did a good deed by telling the driver that his n.s.r trailer disc was see through to the point of competing with TATA steel !, probably saving him or the firm a roadside bearing failure or blow out .
… Thing is Dan, Disc brakes still work well regardless of colour / temperature / smoke /sparks … whatever.
Could’nt always have said the same for the old drums eh?..
Mont Cenis and mont Genevre passes
youtube.com/watch?v=P-7SJa4o5NE
Been up in a car, must be a nightmare in a wagon.
simon1958:
Dan Punchard:
I followed a Actros artic up the m1 last week ,I did a good deed by telling the driver that his n.s.r trailer disc was see through to the point of competing with TATA steel !, probably saving him or the firm a roadside bearing failure or blow out .… Thing is Dan, Disc brakes still work well regardless of colour / temperature / smoke /sparks … whatever.
Could’nt always have said the same for the old drums eh?..
until the disk shatters taking out the front offside steer
def couldn’t have said that about drums eh?
Born Idle:
Several years ago I delivered to Arlington Court National trust in Nth Devon driving a rigid 18 tonner. It was starting to blizzard very heavily when I arrived and on the way out the snow had really come down. I was about a mile out of the drop on the very steep and twisty A39 heading towards Barnstaple when I lost traction on a bend with a very steep incline and my back end slewed towards the big drop into sod all on the nearside. I gingerly tried to get going again but the back end just slipped further towards drop. I was out of the cab in an instant but alas no mobile phone signal! I started to trudge up the hill to hopefully get a signal & ring for help and was so luck to meet a Land Rover coming down. I explained the situation, that the road was completely blocked and would be until I could summon help when the LR driver told me he was local and could help. he turned round and drove away, and 15 mins later a tractor with chains came down the hill. He pulled my arse end sideways away from the drop, then towed me the rest of the way up the hill until the road was driveable again.
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They lost a gritter on that road a couple of years ago ( it’s called zig zag hill) better to head out to mullacott cross and use the A361
… Good evening green456 and DENNIS F… Yep. Definitely had a few bad laundry moments … and a few choice words with the fitter about slack-adjusters!!!..
As i mostly work local in shropshire the only hill mentioned on here is harley bank which can be a ■■■■■ if your struggling before the first corner,but i use to live in Alston in ■■■■■■■■■■■■ wondered if anyone had stories of the steep banks in that area namely,nenthead over killope law down into weardale,Stanhope to consett up crawlyside,or the other side of the valley Stanhope to middleton in teesdale up softly,or one of the first roads that gets a mention on Sally traffic snow closures, Hartside pass over crossfell.
