Chi-town,
This will make you feel better. I bought a freightliner M2 in 2004 to pull my 40 ft toyhauler. I went down with my family to visit my parents for Christmas vacation in Florida. Well on the ride home we had a snow storm in NY that was still going when I was returned home. I made it all the way back to my street which is a cul-de-sac. My house is third on the left and the street rises a total of about 3 feet in the 300ft distance to my driveway. Well at about 3:00 in the morning I'm trying to get up enough speed to get just past my driveway to back the trailer down. Needless to say it took 20 full throttle runs with enough black diesel smoke to block out the moon and stars, but I finally made it and all the neighbors were very happy because they came out to watch the show, since they couldn't sleep from the noise.