I spent most of my career floating. Getting back into trucking this last year I learned to double clutch to regain my CDL and to go through training with Swift. Since going solo (and now team) I've drifted back to floating 85% of the time and double clutching about 2% of the time. The other 13% is "tapping" the clutch to disengage from a gear and then floating into the next gear, typically when pulling up a hill or downshifting going down a hill.
I think it's good to be able to use whatever form of shifting works best for the situation. The bottom line either way is you still have to get your rpm's right to slide it into gear.
Shifting gears question
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by dennisroc, Feb 19, 2014.
Page 4 of 5
-
-
Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds
Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.
-
It doesn't matter every truck you get into its gonna have a $&!ed up transmission
That doesn't shift right from the ten thousand idiots before you ; -
jamesh1979 Thanks this.
-
dennisroc Thanks this.
-
I hear what you are saying, at times in the sleeper berth I'll wince at the pounding the drive train is taking with some of the codrivers I've been with. On the bright side excess weight is being eliminated in the gear box.
-
-
-
Simple answer is you just can't, there are no synchros in a truck trans to mesh the gears.jamesh1979 and dennisroc Thank this. -
dennisroc Thanks this.
-
I actually 1st learned to shift a truck by floating the gears (before CDL school from a relative). When I went to CDL school my trainer would always yell at me because he wanted me to double clutch since that is what the test requires. I feel that I can shift so much smoother (both up and down) with floating. Its all in how you feather the gas
dennisroc Thanks this.
Trucking Jobs in 30 seconds
Every month 400 people find a job with the help of TruckersReport.
Page 4 of 5