Anyone else hate shifting?

No but in truck school they always want you to double clutch, I'm saying it's possible with technology to probably eliminate needing to do ....kinda like in some new cars with manuals that have auto reving...

 

I’ll repeat, double clutching isn’t necessary. I know some guys who can do it just fine, but I can drive their trucks just as smoothly and never touch the clutch pedal after I get it in gear, until I have to make a complete stop. Floating gears is likely easier on the pansy knees too! Don’t think we need more technology, it’s already making people swerve all around and almost go upside down into the ditch apparently. We need more common sense. In bulk. Auto revving sounds like a feature that would turn me into a rage monster

 

maybe that’s for working trucks. I learned at Yellow and it was junk equipment, it was hard on the body.

 

Taught the ex-wife how to drive a manual car back in the 70s
There were bad words spoken and some crying.
Mostly by me, (That poor clutch)
Took about 2 days and she got the hang of it.

 

That's exactly how I leaned to drive a truck. Big class, share a truck with 5 students, every instructor calling maneuvers by a different name. My 1 advantage was my dad & my brother had gone through the very same school 1 & 2 years before I went. Newbies seem to have only about 10% of the work ethic or determination that was normal a few years ago. I have a few theories on why.

 

And all your homies say you look good in black!

 

New to this forum and I'm currently in school getting my CDL without manual restriction.

Been driving for over a decade on automatic and never once touched manual, I was able to learn double clutching in a truck within a couple of days. I know a lot of people here and on other forums say most trucks will all be automatic in the future but it's a good skill to have because you never know.

 

IF I put you into a model T, I could teach you how to drive it in 10 minutes. It is one of the easiest manual transmissions to drive.

I learned how to drive one when my uncle was getting rid of his when I was 11. He taught me how easy it was and said he would have sold it to me, but then, after he saw I took off down the road with my grandmom in the seat behind me, he said he didn't trust me or her anymore. She had fun, and I bet I hit 45 with it.

Oh I see what you did there. I bet others don't get the joke.

Double clutching is 20% of the process, knowing what to do to shift up and down is 60% and another 20% is knowing what gear you are in and which one to use for the situation.

It is really simple, it is a skill that they should teach for a CDL, no manual, no CDL.

For the record, I prefer, even at my age, with my problems with my knees, to drive a manual. My daily driver beater truck is a Dodge with a 6 speed. The only problems I ever had with shifting and my knees were when I was either in LA or NYC in heavy traffic for hours; it would get so painful and swollen, I would have to wrap my knees and just get through it. Then, a few hours with ice packs, and it was good.

 

I love manual shift transmissions, 13 to 18 speed prefered. The problem is the current driver trainers do not know the proper way to shift, and cannot teach what they do not know. The number one problem I see with nes drivers is they are in a hurry you cannot not rush a manual non-syc trans, it will drop right into gear when the rpms match, not before or after.

 

All about the rhythm once you have it. I never even think about shifting, Here at Heartland most of the drivers have manual restrictions, Generally I finish tractors off, and there is always plenty of manuals sitting waiting to have the final miles put on them. I gladly take a broken in manual over a new auto.