If running the drive downhill, you can also cut in an angled swale at intervals into the driveway to divert the water to the ditch on either side. That will help stop the water from running down the driveway and get it into the ditch before it starts to wash out the road.

There is a term for it, but I can't remember it right now.

One place that I hunted at in Colorado sold a piece of land and gave them access rights. The dozer operator that did work at the house site re-graded the access road. It's about 3 miles long, and he really screwed up the road. No crown, sloped slightly uphill rather than downhill (holds rather than sheds the water now) when sidehilling, and the road now is a rutted, muddy mess. A road that was just cut into the hillside, but that drained well and wasn't rutted is now dangerous to drive on when there's snow and ice because of the ruts. It's easy to high center a truck, and if you slip into the frozen ruts with snow on the road, the only option is to continue on the road until the rut that you're stuck in flattens out. No way to drive up and out of the rut.

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