You are perfectly free to feel that way. However, I am telling you from PERSONEL EXPERIENCE I have gone from a cold stop never touching the throttle and not using the clutch after starting and went all the way from 1st to 6th gear and at no time lugged the engine while on flat ground. I admit I did do this with an empty trailer. Also, I am NOT the only driver to report doing this. Some truck driving schools teach this as well.
Need help on doing tug test and clutch
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Also, it is not engine/transmission destruction if done correctly, stop being so melodramatic. -
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Far as i can see, yall stuck just a bit much of them size 12's in yer yapper... now your trying to save a bit o face.
I personally think this is lunch counter grade....
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I learned how to drive way back when in an old split shift Mack logging truck, with my father using the (FIST) system about clutch usage. And god help me if I ever lugged that engine to a stop.
I don't know what percentage of the industry is today using XY Autoshifters, but it is a lot. In another generation manual transmissions while still around will be hard to get a driver into. In other words more to owner-operators and custom trucking applications.
Some people have serious problems picking up the right rhythms of shifting, and others never will. I can't remember how many times I have seen drivers take off and by the time they hit 3 and 4th gear they are grinding. Some instructors try to show the students how to shift, and how to double clutch. I don't think schools are teaching floating.
In other words, this knowledge most of us old hands take for granted is slowly going to die.
I think I have covered my position on all of this, I still stand behind all my words AND I know I am not alone. Time to thread bail! -
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Classy driver....
Ive taught dozens of people how to drive double clutch. I wait until they can run up and down no grinding before i teach floating.
For the record i understand what you are saying, and i can see it working under perfect conditions... (with the clutch) but that is no way to teach. Your using idle speed to teach double clutching and as soon as they put the skinny in, they will grind. Nothing will work the same way as idle..
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