Manuel Transmission Knowledge Needed? For School
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Only issue I am having is starting in second leaving how to feather it is giving me issues
Only issue I am having is starting in second leaving how to feather it is giving me issues
Could be the clutch. Is anyone else jerking the truck when they start? I have had to get clutches in a couple trucks. A lot of drivers I work with have had to have clutches replaced. I imagine it gets wore out a lot starting in higher gears on hills and such...
Only issue I am having is starting in second leaving how to feather it is giving me issues
Could be the clutch. Is anyone else jerking the truck when they start? I have had to get clutches in a couple trucks. A lot of drivers I work with have had to have clutches replaced. I imagine it gets wore out a lot starting in higher gears on hills and such...
I solved my issue after playing with the clutch some. I am learning in an old Freightliner Columbia. The lead instructor told me today " those same freight shakers are temperamental *****es, but if you can drive them you can drive any truck on the lot." I did some road driving in a volvo and it was SO damn easy to shift in comparison.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
Everything here... three of my last four cars/ pickups have been stick, including my current one. I'm kind of hoping I'll take to double clutching easier than I expect to.
Double Clutch:
To engage and then disengage the clutch twice for every gear change.
When double clutching you will push in the clutch, take the gearshift out of gear, release the clutch, press the clutch in again, shift the gearshift into the next gear, then release the clutch.
This is done on standard transmissions which do not have synchronizers in them, like those found in almost all Class A trucks.
Double Clutching:
To engage and then disengage the clutch twice for every gear change.
When double clutching you will push in the clutch, take the gearshift out of gear, release the clutch, press the clutch in again, shift the gearshift into the next gear, then release the clutch.
This is done on standard transmissions which do not have synchronizers in them, like those found in almost all Class A trucks.
Sorry for bringing up an old thread, but didn't want to start a new one for same subject...can others with experience "Teaching" give advice to help someone trying to learn to dbl-clutch? I am trying to "un-learn" 40-plus years of other manual transmissions, and this just is not working at all at the moment. I am in 3rd week of 4-week course (private school, and there is no "teaching" here...they tell you how you should do it, then yell and scream when you don't "get it" right away). Up until yesterday I have been in the truck 4 times, approx. 10-12 minutes each time to practice backing, and then yesterday we went out on the road, four in a truck and I tried for about 20-minutes...failing totally and completely.
Sorry, realized I am rambling about the school...need advice/help to learn to dbl-clutch...they want to test us end of next week (today is Wed., we test next week, Friday), and I can't make even one shift properly at this point. I know different people have different ways of teaching, so I am desperately hoping that hearing the same thing from someone else, but in a different way, might help me to "get it"...if that makes sense.
Not to be that guy but, I didn't have much issue with driving a manual truck. Other than remembering 8-10,gears vs 4-5... Was to bad for me. I've also been double clutching way before I started driving truck, might have been what helped...
As Daniel said though, you are in a good position to learn easier. Once you get it down you'll be able to drive a car that's stick too.
If you "double clutched" before you started truck driving school, you were ahead of the game.
Dave
Double Clutch:
To engage and then disengage the clutch twice for every gear change.
When double clutching you will push in the clutch, take the gearshift out of gear, release the clutch, press the clutch in again, shift the gearshift into the next gear, then release the clutch.
This is done on standard transmissions which do not have synchronizers in them, like those found in almost all Class A trucks.
Double Clutching:
To engage and then disengage the clutch twice for every gear change.
When double clutching you will push in the clutch, take the gearshift out of gear, release the clutch, press the clutch in again, shift the gearshift into the next gear, then release the clutch.
This is done on standard transmissions which do not have synchronizers in them, like those found in almost all Class A trucks.
Dave advises:
If you "double clutched" before you started truck driving school, you were ahead of the game.
As I read through this thread, I was thinking that starting to double clutch in a manual automobile would be the place to start. Get the moves down. A car will take the double clutching , and be more forgiving when you miss a gear. Start developing the new habit now.
Double Clutch:
To engage and then disengage the clutch twice for every gear change.
When double clutching you will push in the clutch, take the gearshift out of gear, release the clutch, press the clutch in again, shift the gearshift into the next gear, then release the clutch.
This is done on standard transmissions which do not have synchronizers in them, like those found in almost all Class A trucks.
Double Clutching:
To engage and then disengage the clutch twice for every gear change.
When double clutching you will push in the clutch, take the gearshift out of gear, release the clutch, press the clutch in again, shift the gearshift into the next gear, then release the clutch.
This is done on standard transmissions which do not have synchronizers in them, like those found in almost all Class A trucks.
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I don't recall seeing synchros when I opened it but if it did have em they ain't there anymore.
Worst habit I have is going out of gear and coasting.. I catch it most of the time.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.