clutch control sucks...

so uh i completely get some people just arent cut out to drive a big rig.......i may be one of them...lol. i just started training a week ago after getting out of my three training program to obtain my cdl and three days into driving and this tractors 10 speed and clutch feels like a totally different truck than the crap i drove at the training program. having a hard time feeling this tractor out and driving on inclines with 40k pounds have been a fail so far. i've stalled this bad boy out about 10 times........

trainer knows i have no experience driving a stick and says my clutch control is all jacked up and i need to feel for the gears more especially when downshifting. he says his truck is probably the hardest to shift in the fleet....but i swear my confidence is in the dumps so far.....lol.....

the other issue is that this company does not really have any specific training set up for newbies like me and he has tight deadlines to hit on his dedicated route so he really doesn't have time for me to be screwing around otherwise the load is late and blah blah blah.......

just keep trying at it or will i never get it...???? just sucks not picking it up very fast......he definitely has an intimidating route but im thinking experience is the greatest teacher....but with the five stops he makes in a 10 hour driving session......not much room for error......

just seems like on his route i will never get this thing down pack...

 

yeah he told me the rpm's to shift at but it all just goes out the window when im trying to get up a decent size incline and it kinda slugs along and goes out on me and then as soon as we go from having 12k pounds of weight to 40k everything seems different. im trying to get better at it all.

 

his instruction is good for the most part its just with it being an expedited company with no real training procedure or class set up you just go out with someone on there route. this company is still new to hiring newbies so i guess that it just the way it is. He said each stop they are suppose to make it at a certain time and due to them being expedited they are a little strict with it.