Downshifting going uphill

I'm so happy, I'm not in your state
CDL school is a way to get CDL, nothing more. Actual driving and learning starts when real job starts, from what I know.

 

I was one of the first to have to do the CDL process. Maybe they weren’t serious about the driving part yet I can’t say. I remember he told me how many pull ups I could do on the skills and pass and any coasting in neutral was an automatic fail. I guess those were his 2 rules I floated the gears that’s the only way I knew. You watch it long enough it becomes second nature.

 

Many people have a hard time doing a long slow movement with one leg while simulataniously doing a quick precise movement with the other foot... I happen to be one of those people. I CAN double clutch if I absolutely have to, but it aint pretty. But I can float gears all day long and never scuff a gear.

 

This thread has to be a joke.

 

Couple of times I've even was asked by the drivers, who took 15-20 times of tries to back into tight places and could not, to get into their truck and do it for them, so I did)

It is not complicated to be a normal person and have a compassion, when you see stressed out driver trying to do something they don't have a good handle on yet. The more they stress, the less they can do, as far as I could see.

 

On a loaded truck on hills greater than 5%, many can be downshifted with a shifter movement that is more like a synchronized transmission, but you need to compensate for the turbo being fully spooled up with your right foot. Of you miss that opportunity there is typically one more shift point where you will lose a few 100 rpm from your ideal.

Biggest thing to learn besides the timing of your specific truck is to give up quickly and shoot for one more gear lower if you miss.

If you pay attention to the ideal safe speed in each gear will help with recovery. On the high side without splits most trucks are ~10mph apart in those speeds.

Shifting in mountain driving is 20% adjusting your shift speed and 80% knowing how to safely recover from a missed shift.

Note that most trucks also lose RPM much faster on the higher part of their range than the lower. If you have problems adjusting shift timing you can adjust RPM like most people typically do on up hill up-shifts but if you upshift high in the RPMs the timing for shifts at lower RPM will need to be slower.

 

Yes to the above

With 18 and 13 speed tranny it is better not to touch the splitter lever and shift straight like a 9 speed. Too many rpms are lost during the shift to use the split gears.