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I helped pay my way through college by delivering Domino's pizza, back when they still had the 30 minutes guarantee....And I was the 'go to' guy, delivering all the 'almost late' pizzas in my manual transmission, 4 cylinder 1979 Ford Fairmont. Where I went to school there are also tons of hills. Mid winter I was driving down a steep hill, delivering a pizza, hit the brakes and there was nothing. A quick survey and I saw that I had about another 100 feet before I would cross an intersection, then a small parking deck, then about a 30' drop into downtown.... The one thing I always loved about delivering pizzas in winter was that the snow banks on the sides of the road were always soft.... So that's where I parked it. Turned out one of the brake lines had cracked.
That was pretty nerve wracking, but I never learned as much about driving as I did delivering pizzas in that little college town.
I can understand continuing to drive the truck - with the shop close by. Once we dislodged my car from that snowbank, I drove it to a friends house to get the brake line fixed. Just used the gears to slow me down, parking brake to stop.
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