Driving A Manual Transmission Truck Local. Fun And Frustrating.
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I feel your pain haha I live in Toronto and do city driving so every time I get into 5/6 I come to a red light 😑. It’s nice around 12-3am but before then it’s crazy busy. The other day I was on the highway crawling along going from 1st gear up to 3rd then back again for an hour trying to go 10km.
I just started working for my city in haulage (Toronto) but of the new guy’s that have been hired in the past few months I’m the only one who can drive 18 speed so instead of dumping garbage etc. I’ve been moving trailers and tractors around from yard to yard or to the maintenance yards😎
I got to say I feel like I can shift smoother in a manual that the automatic freight liners do lol
I feel your pain haha I live in Toronto and do city driving so every time I get into 5/6 I come to a red light 😑. It’s nice around 12-3am but before then it’s crazy busy. The other day I was on the highway crawling along going from 1st gear up to 3rd then back again for an hour trying to go 10km.
Exactly.
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Most of my driving is on local roads. A drive from the refinery back to HQ is a great example. From the refinery there is a steep incline from their driveway to the road and a hard right. I get up to speed, 30 MPH, then come to the stop sign. Go through the the stop sign, get up to speed and come to the RR crossing, another steep incline, get across the tracks to a stop sign. Right turn get up to speed and, traffic light, usually red. Get up to speed and RR crossing, Get up to speed and it the light for my left turn. That just gets me to the main road. This is constant shifting from second to eighth and back down. I start in second 99% of the time. I rarely spend more than 30 minutes to an hour on the interstate. I love my job and driving. This is just an example of some regular driving that I didn't see OTR. If you're new to trucking or thinking of a local gig, this is a small example. There are many types of local jobs with different amounts of driving. I do mostly short drives and working at night, traffic is rarely an issue.
Stay safe. Scott
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