Downshifting going uphill

In the age before a wide dash full of gauges;and cab insulation, we mostly shifted by sense of forward motion, exhaust sound, and vibrations.

 

We have a truck driving school here in Tupelo. After reading some of these posts,I am tempted to park near the exit and observe the referenced acts.
Should a lot more entertaining than "geezer gazing" here in the retirement community. We have a little lady, 93, drives a 4 year old Buick. Her insurance company wanted the odometer readings, had her on less than 30K per year rate. I could not get in to sit for the pile of cushions she uses to see out, but knelt and snapped a pic of the instruments onto my phone. 8018 the digital said.... She is getting them to go to less than 10K. Goes to her doc appts, groceries, and to her bridge club as idea strikes her.

 

Patience IS Required When Shifting Gears.
When One Has Not Patience, One Might Share Medical Space Alongside Patients.
Automatics Sometimes Improve The Patient Patience.

 

Easy deal pull it down to 1400 move selector from OD to direct let off throttle 1 second then get back on it easy. Pull it down to 1400 again move selector to OD let off throttle and move stick forward gently and slowly accelerate the motor to match RPM of engine to gear and road speed it falls in the hole and roll back into the throttle. Or same concept but don’t worry about splitting down go whole gears and pull down to 1300 you will have to rev it a little higher to get in gear on whole downshifts

 

I don’t teach driving but in my Community College Auto and Diesel classes so many kids come through tha wish to learn to drive a “stick”. I found an ol 85 K2500, made it half road worthy, removed from driveshaft. Those that wish to learn have an opportunity, just leave it in low range and let ‘em learn to use a clutch and shift without going fast yet. Very robust drive train so it has held up for a long time. Some of these are high school kids, with a few even advancing to operating my Columbia on my place. 4 of my recent kids got jobs driving dump trucks at chicken farms and processing plants doin Mens work at 16-18 years old makin their own money.

 

Turn off the cb and ignore the idiots making stupid comments. If you don't hit anything you did a good job.

Learning to back between cones in school and doing it in the real world are completely different. My first 3 years of driving I pretty much never bumped a dock. Food service my 1st year and then 2 years in the oilfield. When I started pulling a box it was like being green all over again trying to bump docks Lol