Manual car vs truck

Shifting a car and shifting a semi-truck are not at all alike. If you shift a car like you ARE SUPPOSED TO SHIFT A TRUCK your car will need a new clutch by the end of the week. If you shift a truck like a car you will never leave the parking lot because it will stall every attempt to move. The 2 vehicles have some components in common, but that is it. Experience shifting a car before driving a truck will make it harder to learn to to shift a truck. Someone with no experience shifting gears in anything is better prepared to learn to shift a truck.

 

I hardly ever touched the clutch to take a car out of gear and just tap it to grab the next gear. Never got any gear clash.

 

Every car is different on how far you to need to push the clutch in. It's like anything you'll figure it out.

 

Long time ago I had a Subaru Brat and I floated the gears in it.

 

My car didn't like floating. Always clashed if I tried.

 

What is "Double Clutching" a Semi?
NEVER Did Such although I've read here and other Sites about such activity.
I wasn't taught such activity in Truck Driver training.

Sounded like Steve McQueen "Double Clutched" the Mustang in Bullitt which seemed weird.
CHEERS!!

 

When I was in truck driving school, they told me that I was caching on faster than the other guys because I did not drive a stick already and didn't have those habits. I learned for a day earn I got my license in high school, but that was it. The other guys were a bit overconfident because they drive manual cats, but they struggled a bit more.

 

But....those Subarus are on the top of the list for rainbow bumper stickers!