10 Year old shows off shifting skills

I have hammy hands so if you added about oh 40 ton to a Cessna 150 or something I would do better with those things. But hand me a map and a stack of radios to go to point B sure, you bet.

The more I think about that kid going into high range, its way too fast. Im surprised the air gulped the range change in time. It is not that fast.

 

This is awesome... Brings back ALOT of good memories.

I was just a couple years younger than him when I started learning to shift a big truck... But I learned on a 5x4.

By the time I was maybe 11 I was turned loose on my own in the truck hauling hay on the farm... Maybe a 5 mile radius of mostly gravel roads.

Good times.

I wish this kid the best of luck and hope never sees the inside of a mega carrier truck.

 

Post of the week award, Amen brother.....

 

I don’t see how high range is to fast when you go into it at 10-15 mph most of the time. The screamin’ Demon makes it seem faster than it is. Lol!

 

So easy a 10 year old can do it! And you folks are all worried about 18 year olds driving lmfao.

 

Hey now... I guess we had that coming like a rampaging Semi Truck. HA.

At 7 I was cargo in a family friend's B model dump to the local quarry then was taught the big Cat dozer tracked in 10 minutes. Even I could understand the concept. Push rocks here to big pile away from crane bucket. Repeat until clean. (It never is) watch other trucks coming and going.

They did not realize it then but that was the one day that really turned a spark into a fire of knowing what my future would be. Eventually I learned how to also run a CAT 936 feeding a ready mix which I enjoy very much such as it is. (If it's sandbox time, it's not WORK... but playtime.)

That particular day was unforgettable. Even though I could not see anything being shorter than the walls of that dump bed.

What my father did where possible is take me to essentially the entire midatlantic with a focus on all of our early presidents and their plantations, stomping grounds and so forth. Including also Civil War battlefields later in life.

That itself was a education far superior to history textbooks that had no meaning or actionable information in them in public school. Although in Monticello its a interesting question when you learn that Jefferson had crossed boundaries in his relationships in his life. They did not address that question in those days but I am told that they most certainly have reconciled it with the descendants and so on today.

I draw some satisfaction from the destruction of Warwick in between Richmond and Norfolk with family forced to go to Somerset to flee. And we continue to build carriers and other warships on that land to keep all of us free.

I was not provided much of a education in self keeping for feeding, hunting or any of that. That came later on my own. Such as it is. Its not much. Camp Greentop next to Camp David had a big lessons learned that month in Maryland, learned to cut fish etc. (Salmon anyone? Fried perhaps?)

For what it's worth, trucking has provided pretty much everything I wanted out of life and I think that alone is quite enough to justify all of the heaven and hell on the road.

 

And therein lies the problem, my friend, people AREN'T doing this with their kids. Farms are all but gone, old gear jammers passing without their kids even giving a shred of notice, as in my situation. My kids grew up around trucks, and I put them behind the wheel too, fun, but absolutely no interest beyond that. This kid? Too soon to know if he'll rob a liquor store, but the basics for a good job, are there. Years ago, this kid would have been the envy of all his friends and they ,in turn, would become truck drivers. Sadly, for the most part, this just doesn't happen today, not like when we were young, anyway..

 

I do worry that some will try to bully this kid, oh he is going to be a trucker? truckers are nasty etc.

Maybe one day he will understand what he did with that Star is something I think is precious. Such as it is. Thanks Daddy!

Mind them curves kid. You have the rest of your life to get to where you are going.

 

I don't know about bullying him. People seem to realize that trucks are a necessity, as long as someone else does it. Obviously, this kid is no stranger to trucks, and I'd bet dollars to donuts, his mom, the fathers ex-wife, isn't too happy about it.