What am I missing?

Well.... are you trying to double clutch? or float the gears?

 

floating is way easier that clutching and the mechanics will love you.

 

Completely agree. When I started driving I was the same. Grinding the gears and missing the Gear. Learned how to float and it is so much easier, less maintenance on the clutch too.

Steel Dragon your over thinking it. Stop trying to match MPH and RPM. you have to listen to your truck. feel your truck. a few times while taking off from a stop, see where your correct RPM is and match the sound of your motor to that RPM. Hard to explain I guess but your over thinking it.

 

Whenever I would hire on to a new company and had to road test. I told the instructor flat out "I'm not double clutching".

Every time I would be told "well, just do it once and then you can float".

 

I learned on a concrete truck which only if empty you can skip shift. When I first started I was single clutching. After pouring driveways and clutching my knee took a beating. So I learned how to float the hard way.

 

Less maint. On clutch more maint on transmission which would rather replace

 

Stop rushing it. You have time to find your next gear, slow down your shifting hand. Its easier empty to learn. IGNORE what rev your at, listen to the engine. When up shifting run it up to 18 or so, lay off the gas and the stick can be pushed out easy. Line up for the next gear, lean on it VERY lightly, you will feel but not hear the chatter, a little of the skinny pedal and you will feel the gap, push the stick in. When doing it with the clutch, a light tap of the pedal, you dont need to go deep.

 

You shift at rpms not road speed.