Question about manual transmission differences

Yeah, trust me your overthinking it. Your going into "training" not a road test just go in there and get started it'll come to ya.

 

Thats what training is for basically

 

Everyone is different, just like every truck, every instructor, and every examiner is different.

 

Not necessarily.

You will be taught how to hit scales, fueling, paying for same etc etc etc. You will learn about different parts of the USA. Transponders for paying tolls maybe (Those are nice otherwise GWB NYC is 106 cash dollars to northbound...) used to be 12.50 but I digress... Bridge is getting rougher late in my life. Wonder where all that money went.

Anyhow. A trainer is a asset if he or she is a good one. God help you if you got a bad trainer and you don't know enough to know it. These forums are what I would call a library of opinion and knolwedge from those who did run long enough to share what they know. It's good to learn.

My schooling was 4 months worth of stories, going over the trucks ranging from a old 57 white to a variety of other trucks with nuts and bolts of how and what makes them run. Sometimes we competed for the fastest time into dock or parrallel etc. That was when the 22 of us gained enough skills to get frisky and do a bit of serious rodeo but that does not match what you learn on the actual road.

Today's schooling scare me. They are taught very little. Just enough to get that State CDL without killing someone. I hope you constantly milk your trainer for everything he knows. Because one day you might hear him again when alone and in difficulty.

 

Thats one advantage to having 2 uncles in the business for 35ish years apiece. They've both told me if i ever get lost or slap confused then pick up the phone and call

 

You never cease to amaze me.

 

I smell......sarcasm.

 

I hope I was laying it on pretty thick.

 

Some people just type to see their own words. Legends in their own mind.

 

When I went through my training at Werner, there were two major issues to overcome.
1. Backing up
2. Shifting super -10 - at the time prevalent kind. This was kind of weird, as the trainers wanted me to float shift while running their miles, yet they did tell me "Remember though, You gotta double clutch at the road test all right?"
I'd say that the experience of manual shifting with a regular car gives an idea of gears and transmission...and how could that be wrong?