Just tried a new gear for the first time ever, High Reverse

Use it every time I am leaving home. I park my trailer on one side of my 2+ acre property, and the truck near the house on the opposite end of the property. I ease out onto the dirt road between the two, hit high-reverse and back down to my trailer. 1st time my wife saw me do it, her eyes were as big as fried eggs. Her mom (who lives with us) saw me do it the last time, couldn't believe her eyes.

 

Tried that in bobtail in mine. I'm surprised the old 3406A had enough snap to get it moving.

 

When I was LTL I always used it. Eventually got really used to it at straight backing.(gotta beat fedex to the door) lol

 

There's a lo???? No wonder everyone gives me googly eye.

 

have tried in many times bobtail, until my boss locked it out (you can do that with an auto shift or automatic), because a coworker almost put the container in the cab with him when he high hooked

 

I've done it with a 53' trailer. My last job, being local, I'd park my bike by the truck, load up, move to the other side of the parking lot, load up some more, and go. Sometimes I'd forget something at my bike, and there wasn't room to do a uturn without tearing up the tires some, so often I'd just straight back it to near where I started. Lo reverse is too slow. If I started getting it wobbly behind me I'd slow it down, but if I could keep it straight, it was easy enough to maintain it straight. Usually.

 

The gear ratio of reverse in high range on a 10spd is close to that of 6th gear. Plenty fast for reverse.

 

We had an old L9000 with 8LL trans, manitex crane on the back, setup for Hi-railing on train tracks. The Rigolets RR bridge is 10 miles from Ansley Crossing in Mississippi, in High gear it would roll 19mph trying to get back to the crossing and clear for a train. And oh yes... The twin sticks, gotta love them.

 

Hi striker, oh, for crying out loud.

 

If you pros do this with a Road Ranger,don't try and shift it into a lower range while you're going backward.Your gears are spinning backwards in your range selector and there's no synchronization that way.Then you can explain to your boss why the truck won't move,and all those gear teeth a laying in the bottom of the trans.