What to expect during my mentorship

One day deep in a place called Haymarket when the morning rush resolved. I sit there on the counter. With a couple of others.

Christmas day and 300 miles to go. I made a show of pouring coffee and setting hat down on the counter and adding up who is with us in there that day.

Somewhere deep in the place someone started up a touch of fiddle. I don't know where or how he came by that thing but I tell you what Christmas aint half bad on the road.

 

You have been given much goodies to consider.

When you and your truck reach a understanding and things improve greatly. Do not abuse it. And she will run for you.

There are some who wanted to stir things up again as they sometimes do. Ignore them if they offer no value to shifting etc.

There are some tractors out there with 13's 15's and so on in my lifetime that were a joy to drive; to actually drive them only required a thought from your mind, Everything else was executed to support your thinking in that moment.

You will get to where you can examine someone's Manual skills with a truck he or she is driving. Either very well or badly. You decide.

 

How is the first wrong? 4th takeoff on a 13 speed on a negative or flat-empty is easy.. Do it on a 1% or with a load though and it won;t work. It has everything to do with the weight and gear ratios.. Floating gears has always worn out trannys faster than double clutching inside the power band even when you float non-aggressive.

Also, go in to 6th on a 13 at 45MPH since road speed doesn't dictate on up and down shifting.. Show us how an ol' legend makes shift-forks work on un-synced and unmatched gears..

 

BACK to the O/P's question.. (heck, maybe YOU know if you tested out in the 2000's or so... I just needed the buck sixty certificate; never did re'test.) I've heard that they make you start in FOURTH gear, empty. SURE DOES have everything to do with the weight, AND gear ratios, which are obviously variables.....

I'll let @x1Heavy show you "how an ol'legend makes shift forks work on an unsynchronised tranny with unmatched gears." I'm not the ol'legend; he is. Just trying to boost confidence of the o/p (as seems others are here.)

Tomcat back quiet. (Sorry, @TripleSix .. I kinda needed that here. )

 

I am just curious, how many million miles does it take to wear out that tranny if you float the gears?

 

I don't know.

I had one transmission on a completely whipped Intl'Eagle from around the 1992ish in Baltimore it has a little over1.5 million on it. But in truth no one really knows.

I was given that tractor for a road test and a H/W Team in the sleeper to evaluate me. The transmission was a bucket of bolts in a washing machine that wont quit running. Nothing on it was quiet. It had a variety of hideous noises.

I asked them how far we going in this #### thing. Who knows just take off up that ramp for 95. Rolled it clear to white marsh and back downtown.

That was not the problem, it was the first line original office computer that assigned a clock to a driver under dispatch to say Norfolk from Baltimore down to the hour and exact minute to do the "Work"

I walked out. I did not know then the kind of ELD monitoring today among other problems. When a trucking company says you are to be somewhere on a particular date in the morning, that was where you at. Anything else is BS.