Clutch-less shifting?

welcome to the internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and teenage girls are f.b.i. agents.

 

These trucks drive themselves we dont have to shift. Didnt you see the Simpsons episode where Home and Bart drove a big truck?

That should be simple enough for a 16 year old to grasp

 

Ain't it the Truth. It really amazes me the men that let themselves get trapped. It seems there is no common sense, but then I guess when someone is not all their mentally, they are susceptible to making bad decisions in life. Amazing TV program.

I use to love the Cinderella file we kept when I was participating in a local Law Protection Service. Some of the ladies were so ugly you just could not imagine how they could get any business, and some of the lady cops were just plain gorgeous and many loved the entrapment game.

I personally cold never see the benefits of spending all the money and man hours when all that was accomplished was to push the girls into the alley ways or into bars, or to other locations to take care of business.

Total waste of Tax Dollars, but when you can't legalize it, tax it, and place it under medical screening, you have to do something. Guess that is job protection for many in Law today. Nothing ever changes other than faces, places and time.

 

That is a fact. Just open your log book, put the truck in gear and steer it onto the pavement then put it cruise and enjoy the ride.

 

ya know he is just a kid who might just want to get into the trucking industry when ge grows up. My question to you is when will you? Does it make you feel good about yourself to bring down others who are interested in learning something?

 

Now who's puttin down truck driven here? For shame! We all know it is a great profession, just because there is no real money in it doesn't mean we can't enjoy the ride!

I loved driving, but I sure hated the look at the ledger when my accountant was finished. Lot's of money in and Lots of money out and nary a drop to drink.

It's a good thing water was only 60 cents a gallon at Wal Mart.

Then again, there are not too many places a person can get a job that pays a Living Wage today. Living wage did I say? What's that?

 

There's a huge difference between the transmission in a four-wheeler (car/pickup) versus that in a big truck. That big difference is called a "synchromesh."

This is what makes it so that when you push in the clutch on your car, the transmission/drive-train automatically match RPM speeds with the motor so that you can shift with one movement of the gear lever.

Trucks don't have this. That is why you must "double-clutch" to shift a truck. You push the clutch in once to release the gear and go into neutral. Then you let off the clutch. This lets the drive train synchronize with the motor. Then you press in the clutch again and go up into the next gear. You, the driver, are acting as that synchromesh. Trucks don't have it because it would literally ad a ton of weight to the transmission - that's a ton of freight you can't haul...

I won't even get into down-shifting.

Anyway, once you learn to double-clutch and get proficient with the truck, you'll begin to "cheat" a little and float through the gears, only using the clutch when you start from a complete standstill.

I was told that it is easier to teach someone who has never driven a stick-shift to drive a truck than it is to un-teach all of the habits of the stick driver so they can learn to drive a truck. You'll know you're a real trucker when you grind the gears and screw up the shifting in your car/pickup truck. I routinely shift into 1st instead of Reverse in my pickup since it's opposite of how it is in my big truck. lol

 

Shut up you fool! You'll let out the big secret!

 

BLAH!!! I misread nevermind driver my bad.