Auto shift vs Manual!!

oh yea. my dad went to US Xpress after driving for Covenant for 1 year and at the US Xpress had all auto trans and when he quit he said it was to catch back on to double clutching. some good i can see in driving a auto fresh out of school is you can focus more on turning, backing, the road and whatever else you might have to focus on as a new driver. dont take me word 100% because im not in school and dont start til Feb. but just my thoughts on it. good luck

 

I drove a auto for two years at my current company and just got a new trk couple weeks ago that is a 10sd and didn't have no problems. It might be hard to hire on with someone else not really having experience driving a manual thou. We have a girl that also had a new truck 150 miles on it popped the clutch loaded and shattered the ujoints.

 

I don't even remember how to double clutch lol it's all bout floating

 

It may take a whole 5 minutes to adjust back to manual. I know from experience. I'm one of those drivers that loves the auto.

As Trucker79010 mentioned "floating the gears", that's a good point; and knowing that method makes shifting much easier & makes the transition switching back & forth from auto to manual simple.

 

floating seems like a whole other ball park lol exactly how do you do it? everybody says it easy but it seems like you grind the hell out of the gears to me. you have any pointers? and is it bad for the tranny or does it even matter if you float or double clutch?

 

If you do it right you don't grind the gears. Pretty much all it is you don't use the clutch to shift from one gear to another...it takes lots of practice to get it right I was at intersection the first time I tried and it didn't work out well lol...it's almost like the clutch is the gas peddle you let of the gas to get it out of gear and most of the time it slides right into the next gear same down shifting might have to give a lol gas down shifting but not to much that's where you grind the gears is giving it to much or rmps too low...once you figure it out you only push the clutch when you got to stop

 

Floating is easier than double clutching. Say you double clutch, you still cant just throw it into any gear, you still have to wait for your speed and/or rpm's to sync to get it into your desired gear, so I've always been of the opinion that double clutching is just unnecessary wear & tear on your clutch. I only use it when taking off, shifting into reverse, or sometimes downshifting, I will pop it once. I have a question also about the automatics, are they worth a you know what in snow & ice? Ive been told that they will cut out when you are trying to back under a trailer on ice & your tires break traction. Thanks