Posted: 9 years, 4 months ago
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Hey all hows everyone this week? Tell me about your downshifting advise, seems to me everyone has issues at times.
Dont oveerthink it. Or youll mess everything up!
Clutch, neautral, give her a good rev, clutch, downshift.
Clutch, neautral, rev, clutch, downshift
Rev it too little and youll just grind. Just give it a good purr and it always works.
Posted: 9 years, 4 months ago
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You might be gripping the steering wheel tight for long periods of time. My left hand would get cramped up if I'm in heavy traffic for a long time (I'm left handed). I've figured out I was gripping the steering wheel real tight in that situation.
I hope. Im too young for arthritis! :c
Posted: 9 years, 4 months ago
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Nothing masks the smell of raw milk, curdled milk, rotten milk and bleach with the kind of work I do. . . . . . Nothing. @_@
Posted: 9 years, 4 months ago
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I dont know if im getting into the truck wrong (too much weight on one hand), grasping the steering wheel and or shifter too hard or what but my right hand had been killing me at the joints ever since I started driving. Its been getting better but I was wondering if anyone else has this pain too. Hope im not just being a nancy
Posted: 9 years, 4 months ago
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Don't overthink double clutching. There is no magic to it, no time for fiddling around and coming up with crazy habits or weird alchemy. Just a nice amd repetitive motion.
Clutch, neautral, clutch, shift.
Clutch, neautral, clutch, shift
Clutch, neautral, clutch, shift
Wait till youre like me and after school the mom and pop companies are yelling at you for clutching in the first place and demand you float the gears. Sheesh it goes like this
Rev, grind, ckunk clank grindddddd KATHUNK!!!!
Posted: 9 years, 4 months ago
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Prime Inc. 5 year work history. Only got 3
Back when I first tried to be a trucker years ago I contacted Stevens Transport who wanted a 10 year work history before they shipped me to their school in Dallas, Texas. I only had 2-3 years of history.
The recruiter told me to put anything I could to fill all the blanks.
Cutting grass for grandma, gardening for mom, volunteer work, ANYTHING so there wasnt a gap. Even of it was a lie.
I opted to be lazy and threw the application away and remained an armed guard/body guard for years until I graduated from trucming school last October 20th.
Posted: 9 years, 4 months ago
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Time sensitive! Breaking the news to the Family that I'm becoming a truck driver!
My family put me down at first, putting strong emphasis on me turning the truck wrong and killing people and that there wasn't any money in trucking.
Don't let them scare you out of it if they pull those cards on you. Keep firm and do what you want to do!
Posted: 9 years, 4 months ago
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Recalculating: GPS leads truck driver onto foot bridge in Milwaukee’s Lake Park
Medically evaluated LOL
Posted: 9 years, 4 months ago
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**** that. Don't just sit there, call that guy out and get the police involved if you have to.
I'd have set him straight like a true Texan if I knew without a doubt he had robbed me!
"Now you listen here and you listen real good. I had my computer in my bag when I came into this truck and now its gone; my computer growing legs and running away wasn't in the bundle package I purchased. You hand it over right now or this'll get REAL ugly REAL fast. SIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"
Posted: 9 years, 4 months ago
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Downshifting
Oh yeah how could I forget to mention road speeds. Ifbits a 10 speed transmission just look at your road speed and the signs and 'gear match'
If thr soeed is 35mph, add the 3 and 5 together and that equals 8. So you should be in 8th gear.
If the speed is 25 mph, add the 2 and 5 together and thst equals 7 so you should be in 7th gear.
1-5 dont apply here for me. Just 6-10 gears