Driving manual car like driving a truck?

Give someone a 15 speed and see what happens it's so different it's crazy

 

Not really. Just a 10 speed with 5 deep reduction gears. Don't even bother with the deep reduction unless you absolutely need it. If you do, just gotta remember to drop 1 gear when going from deep reduction to low range.

 

Yes and no.

But a manual car transmission gives you better training than a ‘mash’n’go’.

 

15 speed u box is a pain in the neck to drive I did it once and return it to my friend

 

Having a feel for the clutch is a great advantage when learning to drive a truck.
A couple big differences.....
At the bottom of the clutch in a truck is a clutch brake. Never push in a clutch in a truck all the way unless you're stopped. (we have a guy in class right now who has a problem with this)
The transmission has syncro's. It helps you to find the gear. The transmission tries to synchronize the gears together for you. Still have to find the right speed. But synchro's make it easier. Much easier.
Double clutching I've found is really nice. Took a while, and starting out on a hill to find that out. The double clutching takes it easy on the gears. Easier to find and get it in gear. Lets say it's the 'soft' method of finding the gear. Makes it so much easier in a tougher situation like a hill, you can do it the shift quickly, and smoothly. I've grown to really love double clutching. ....Other than that, I always just slipped the gears driving class B. Never anything like that in a car.

 

You perfectly described "learning interference". Having a well-used habit interfere with learning another habit.

 

Yep, newbies with car clutch experience will ALWAYS clutch too deep in the truck. Using "just enough clutch" in a car is a recipe for early clutch replacement. The one thing you never do in a car is EXACTLY what you need to do in a truck and vice versa.
Q: What do you call someone that feathers their car clutch?
A: owner of a replacement clutch.

 

I thought it was very interesting to find out that a Semi has two clutches. Sandwiched together with a pressure plate between them.
Would it be fair to say? .... With double clutches, you double clutch. (I think that's cute)

 

I have been driving standard transmissions in 4-wheelers for about 25 years. 20 of those years in the same Ford Ranger, with the same clutch. 260k miles and one engine replacement, and the clutch still has lots of pad left, per the engine replacement guys.

But that did not help me much with a semi. The torque of a semi in low gear is insane. You almost never need to use the accelerator to start a truck in second gear. Just feather the clutch out, and the engine will move even a heavy load at an idle. If you have a heavy load on a hill, maybe you will need to give it a bit of fuel to start in 2nd, but I've never needed to give fuel to any truck I've ever started in 1st gear, no matter what hill or what load. I will say that I have never been in a truck over 80k pounds.

You also need to shift much more frequently in a truck in slow traffic than any car. Most cars can get up to at least 15-20 miles per hour in first gear. I normally shift my current 10-speed transmission into 6th gear at about 15 miles per hour, and 7th at a bit over 20.

Others have already mentioned that truck transmissions simply don't work like 4-wheeler transmissions. I won't duplicate their efforts.

 

No, your rear view mirror is on the windshield.