Well isn't this a reverse way of putting it, today was the first time I ever drove a stick shift car. It was kind of weird, I did end up stalling the car out a couple times, because it's different then a big truck. The car was a brand new car had a hard time feeling when the clutch was starting to grab and less clutch less gas. In a big truck the motors are so torque if you are in 2nd-3rd gear and the load is not to heavy you can get away without using the go pedal at all and the motor will just grab and go.
In a car it's not like that you have to slowly let off the clutch and slowly let on the gas.
When I was driving it I pulled out onto the main road and I was all screwed up because it's not the same as a truck and at 1500 RPM I was ready to shift gears in first gear I was doing 20 miles an hour ha-ha and you know pulled out onto the street this was in Erie, PA by the way on Route 97 pulling out of the McDonald's parking lot over there. Anyhow pulled out on to the street and immediately at like 1500-2000 RPM without using the clutch I went to float the car into the next gear. Well technically you can do that I think, but it didn't work like that in a car for me and I went "Duh you have to use the clutch pedal." Yeah so floating gears in a car is a no no. The clutch it was hard to tell when it was grabbing in the truck it's easy to tell when the motor is grabbing the transmission in a car not so much. I got it home just fine, but it was different, my stick shift car needs a little practice.
First Time Driving a Stick Shift Car
Discussion in 'LTL and Local Delivery Trucking Forum' started by Mike2633, Jul 17, 2016.
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