How to Properly Float Gears?

We worry bc some companies like mine require floating and double clutching is forbidden there!! Is the clutch gets worn out they might charge you for the replacement!

 

So you drive for a company in Europe?There's nothing wrong with floating if that's what the driver prefers.I did the same thing.Here in the stares schools teach double clutching I think its an FMCSA requirement.I don't know of any companies here that make the drivers float the gears.

 

Find a new company. The clutch is there for a reason. Next thing they'll tell you not to use the lights because you'll burn them out.

 

Two words of advice about floating: first, don't hold the shifter in your palm, hold it in your finger tips. Grinding happens with force, eliminate that by using your fingers to gently nudge it toward the gear. Use SMALL changes in your foot on the throttle to make small changes in rpm to let the shifter drop into gear.

Getting out of gear requires gently pulling or pushing on the shifter before you let off the throttle, then ease off the throttle. Sometimes you may need to "tap out" of gear by tapping on the clutch, then float into the next gear. The easiest shift to float is from 9th to 10th in a 10 speed, for example. You pull back on the shifter and then ease off on the throttle. You should have that shifter drop straight down into 10th all in one motion simply by a steady, easy easing off of rpm's.

It's easier to float low range with a heavy load. It's hardest to float when you are bobtail. Therefore practice floating low range when you are bobtail.

 

Post some proof of this nonsense...

 

Yes! Please! I would love to see that!
Hopefully the person who started this thread is out of training and has figured out the "mysteries" of floating.

 

Well, after today its more than apparent that everyone is a steering wheel holder until they knock some poles down.. then they are a valued member of the industry and are given tips, tricks and accolades for running #### over and leaving the scene before "anyone one finds out"... So pour your urine in the parking lots, toss whatever garbage you have directly out the window, never flush a toilet, and take all the time you like in the fuel island.. its what "real drivers do"

 

I couldn't agree more Fozzy
If you give a crap and still try to be a professional you are in the minority
Soon there will be none of us left

 

I clutch out of gear and float into gear. Much easier than truly floating gears. Does that make me strange?