Ok. Here's the story. I've only been driving since July 2nd. I learned how to drive on a 10 speed. When I started driving I was allowed to team with my dad OTR for a couple months so that I could get some driving experience. The Mack truck we drove had a 10 speed like the trucks I went through CDL training with. After I went solo in Sept. I started doing local routes for the company when a specific route was needed to be filled that day. For those routes day cab trucks are mostly used. Anyway, I never paid attention that those trucks had 9 speed transmissions and until last night I had always thought that I was always skipping from 5th to 7th gear in these trucks, because when I first started driving them they'd never go into 6th gear so I'd just skip to 7th. Well imagine my suprise last night as I'm waiting for another driver to show up so he can take my truck on to Durango and I can take his truck back to Denver and I'm eating in the cab, talking to my wife on the phone and I look down and notice the shifting pattern for the truck I'm driving and it shows to be a 9 speed? I immediately started laughing and had to explain to my wife what was so funny, she got a laugh out of it also. Sure explains why I could never hit 6th gear going from 5th, but by this time I had been just going from what I was thinking was 5th to 7th gear anyway. Turns out I wasn't even in those gears at all.
It's a 9 speed, not a 10 Speed.
Discussion in 'Road Stories' started by Coyote71, Nov 15, 2008.
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I have never driven one of them...
From what I could find on google they only have 8 forward gears with a Range selector and no splitter... How is this NOT an eight speed???
Sorry, this was the best I could find... And , can somebody please explain the appeal of the RTO( one in red)???Attached Files:
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Just a different trans configuration.
There were 5 X 2's ( 5 speeds with rear splitters) back in the 70's and 80's with that same type of configuration as well.
You'd shift like this:
First low, First high, Second low, Second high, Third low, Third high, Fourth low, Fifth low, Forth high, Fifth high.
If that's confusing, try a 4 X 4, or 5 X 4, or 6 X 4 trans with rear-end splitters....
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One of the driving instructors from the Teamster upgrade school used to drive a KW with the 6 X 4 with the rear splitters. He ran Nuclear tipped missiles complete with DOD escort up and down CA back in the 70's. They had him hooked up the an EKG and constant radio Com. He told the story about one time running up the 210 before it was completed in Pasadena. All PPD saw was an "Over-Weight" and Over-Length tractor-trailer ripe or a "ticket-party".
DOD got on the radio and told them what the load was. The instructor said right after that, PPD scattered like flies......
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