Park in gear or neutral

[Swordsman88]

Originally Posted by geckoGT

As for driving down steep hills, on all my driver training the teaching is to use a gear down a hill that you would use to go up it when not towing. Therefore if you would need 3rd to go up, then 3rd to go down not 6th. In situations of towing it is one gear down again, so 2nd. This spreads the load of maintaining a safe speed etween the brakes and the engine braking. The recommend this on steep hils in auto's as well, one thing that almost no one does. I do this in the ambulances all the time, just good driving that almost no driving school teaches kids.

I do this gecko but i would agree no one else i know does it....I remember a mate of mine asked 'what are you doing' when i moved the Tbar to engage second once in my EF on a steep decline (hell you can use it help control speed generally, but it can get tiresome). Assuming they don't teach that stuff any more in driver training (i think my old man told me about it first) and the guy never reads his user manual for basic advice (it is in there) what do these people do on really steep hills??? Ride the foot brake alot i suppose.....

While i wouldnt' want someone with your experiences in driver training to critique my actions behind a wheel (lord knows what i am doing wrong) i am always interested in what other people do because i believe driving is a pretty complex activity, and you need some skills. And like all skills, some people are very good, some are very not good. I will try out this whole neutral, handbrake, park thing in the auto out, see if i don't get totally bored of it.