Please please I need help in CDL school

One of the very few jobs that pay less than the worst CDL job is CDL instructor.

 

I don’t know if that’s the right name but I saw on YouTube someone described it as a M pattern to explain how the gears shift. It did help me remember the pattern for my 2nd day.

 

Sorry for never answering. No he didn’t. He never broke down anything. Your link helped a lot. I was shifting extremely well today until he started his tantrum and I found out the truth from a state official. They couldn’t believe that I was driving on my first day on public roads with nothing other than watching another student first.

 

They go fast that's just how trade schools are.

 

I spoke to other schools and examiners and they were all shocked that I was out on public roads my first day out without anything prior. Just showed how to shift then told to go.

 

SLOW DOWN & BREATHE! It will ALL come in time. You can’t expect to learn all of this overnight or even in a short few weeks - it’s just not possible truly or recommend.. Take take your time & be patient.

 

I left the school. They weren’t complying with the new regulations or even teaching double clutching. Owner/instructor was awful and always crying about not hurting his truck. Always yelling and complaining that we should be better by now. Since day 2.

 

Doesn’t matter now but this is what I was asking about the clutch/brake combo.



Around the 2:30 mark you see what I mean. I don’t know if this is the proper way of doing things, but one of my weak points was stopping because I wasn’t properly taught it. This technique would have helped me with that. Again I don’t know if it’s right but that’s why I was asking.

I always used to shift to neutral right before the stop, then would get me to shift into 3 right before takeoff. So for ANY and all stops all I ever knew to do was shift first then try to stop. From what I can tell based on him always crying about the clutch and gears was that he did not want to put wear on the clutch. That’s probably why he didn’t teach double clutching.

Yes this is literally how I self taught myself. I’d drive at the school for the day with no real instruction, just yelling the same stuff from earlier that obviously didn’t explain anything to me, then go home and watch videos to try to find out the solution to whatever problem I had on that day. For stalling at takeoff, I found this guys YouTube and it taught me how to take off.

I appreciate all of you guys and being a driver is way harder than I thought so respect to you all. I’ll be back around once I start at my new school.

 

You can keep downshifting and stop in first gear and start again in first gear. 3 gear is ok if pulling empty trailer but one you got good Heavy load in trailer your going to want first heart to start off in.

If the instructor is some kind of independent contractor using his truck. He probably would get upset because every new driver is going to beat the heck out of the truck and clutch and transmission. Sounds like bad combination to me. I did the free training at trucking company so the instructor was not responsible for the truck.

We had backing practice area, so we had like 3 or 4 days of driving in parking lot so we could do a little shifting before going on the road.

Double clutching takes practicing over time to get smooth and to the point where you do it automatically without thinking about every step. Plus learning the shift pattern is no so easy. I like starting out in first gear because I could remember were it was and just going from gear to gear was more easy I thought.

 

Just watching the first minute (which is all I watched) of that tells me that "instructor" is not an instructor. You do not have to push the clutch all the way to the floor to shift. If your using the clutch to shift, you only need to push it down far enough to disengage the transmission. I don't know how it is for testing now days, but when I took my testing in 89 you were not allowed to have the truck in neutral at a light or stop sign. Slip it into the gear you are going to take off in as you are rolling to a stop. If you end up doing a lot of city driving you will learn to time your lights so you don't have to stop. Look around and you will see so many people, truckers and 4 wheelers, racing up to a light. That's hard on fuel mileage, hard on brakes, hard on your leg. Do you have a name of the school, or instructor?