Floating Gears

It is the same in every truck..listen to it up shifting and down shifting, nobody is perfect at it and still grinds gears. I will come

 

Well I thought that is why you have a trainer. To teach you.
Ask him to teach you how to float.
No matter what people will tell you in here, you are going to learn only if you have someone to show you in a Truck. Up sifting should be easier to learn then down sifting but after few months with practice you should be fine.
If you have a good trainer it should be easy. Good luck.

 

I work a company that has slip seating (we are only out for 1-2 nights) I like the truck I'm in now (Pete) but it sucks when backing up because it surges because its a automatic

 

Its easier to learn when your running light, there is a natrural fall out point for each gear. As your speeding up you can let off the gas a bit and give the stick a push and it should fall out of gear clean. A little gas and a LIGHT touch for the next gear. Takes practice. And everything affects it. Load weight, enginge fan, jake, hills.... all will change the behaviour of the truck

 

turn the Jakes off when you're going up through the gears. they tend to knock your rpms down before you can complete the shift

 

If you can DC you can float. It's the same truck right, so the RPM split is the same.

 

One more thing. Do NOT focus on rpms. They will kill you. Work more with knowing your gear to road speed, you can move rpms up or down faster than road speed. If your doing say 30 in 5th and you go for the change, get nutrual but cant find the right rpm for 6, after about 4 or 5 seconds your going to slow, but you can keep your rpms right..... but it still aint gonna want to go. Just go back to 5 and try again. (Your speed/gear ratio may vary)