Floating Gears

What situations are causing you the most problem? Stop lights, traffic, up shifting, down shifting?

 

My trainers truck shorted its entire dash panel out along with the radio last week. Drove 600 miles with no tach, speedo, or gauges.
To my surprise I found I really didn't need the tach like I thought I did. Fantastic way to learn that lesson lol

 

The tach on the driving school's truck was wacked out so I never had the chance to learned with the tach. That habit has stuck with me because of that reason. I do glance at it from time to time but generally keep my eyes focused on the surroundings.

 

some people give exact numbers for shifting. But feel and sound is where it'sat. Drive the truck up to high rpms, let off the gas and pull it out of gear. If it wont come loose, you over shot, hit the clutch. You gotta time it right to match natural rpms to the speed your going for the gear your going into. It should cradle in smoothly, but if it doesn't, hit the clutch. As the engine is slowing down a window opens for the transmission to shift. if you miss the window, either try to recreate it by matching rpms to speed, or just press the clutch. pressing the clutch is better tham grinding gears

 

When done right it will come out with out any pressure and the next gear will almost feel like it sucks it into gear.

 

Ok?

 

Any one could help me on what is like and the money weekly on us express dollar general acc. I am new to the business right out of cdl a school. Thanks upfront for your advice

 

C'mon Guys Its not Like you are trying to Flow Shift one of these!



All it takes is Practice!

 

I ended up like you. I was REQUIRED to DC in training to get my license. Now all I ever do is float. I learned on my own though. I was able to just figure things out naturally and over my own course of time.

I think my only piece of advice to you would be to understand how floating works. You still need SOME throttle to push it out of gear. What I do is I run the RPMs up and then i slowly let off of the gas while LIGHTLY taking the stick out of gear. Just lightly pull on the stick shift while you're letting up on the gas, and it should fall smoothly out. Of course, this is going to take practice, because nobody shifts the same.

Oh, tap on the gas to take it out of gear for downshifting, and make sure you're still mashing the #### out of the gas to put it back in. I only just now got comfortable floating my downshifts about a month ago. It does seem inconvenient at first because you can just double shift way faster. It is less stress on your knees though, and you SHOULD be slowing down way before you stop anyways. I usually just take it out of gear and coast though. I look at my MPH to put it back.

You'll get used to it though. Learning that truck is the best feeling in the world.