Stalling at every traffic light at 4th gear

k008 · Sep 22, 2019

Chinatown said: ↑

Probably has early onset dementia.
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Probably. I'm definitely letting their office know tomorrow, cause I heard somewhere that if you stall during your DMV test it's an automatic fail. So I'm in a lot of trouble if I don't get this fixed soon.

snowwy · Sep 22, 2019

During the test. Start off in 1st. Plain and simple as that.

During training. STart off in 1st. Plain and simple as that. And give him a few F bombs. Maybe even a finger salute.

Why 4th is beyond me.

I don't think I've read anyone on this forum with your complaint.

You're learning to drive a truck. Shifting through all the gears is part of the learning process.

Start in 1st. Learn to shift. And learn to drive. Otherwise. Ask for a refund and find another school.

k008 · Sep 22, 2019

snowwy said: ↑

During the test. Start off in 1st. Plain and simple as that.

During training. STart off in 1st. Plain and simple as that. And give him a few F bombs. Maybe even a finger salute.

Why 4th is beyond me.

I don't think I've read anyone on this forum with your complaint.

You're learning to drive a truck. Shifting through all the gears is part of the learning process.

Start in 1st. Learn to shift. And learn to drive. Otherwise. Ask for a refund and find another school.
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I'm pretty close to asking for a refund. I'm just going to try my last resort at reasoning with the ppl in the office and see if they can put me with a different trainer.

LoboSolo · Sep 22, 2019

Start off from lights in 1st or 2nd. If the trainer goes off, then you just tell him that since yer driving, yer the captain of this friggin ship, so pipe down before you keel haul him.

WildTiger1990 · Sep 22, 2019

k008 said: ↑

So I'm at this trucking school and the guy teaching me out on the streets have very little patient and any mistake he yells and drop F bombs on me. Sometimes he get so angry he kicks the truck panels on the passenger side. He also has one of the thickest accent and he only say something when I made the mistake instead of correcting me before I make the mistake. Very little instruction is given while I'm out on the road. I have to literally figure it out on my own and since I'm new to trucking and also new to driving stick shift I figure he would have a little more patient with me but nope, he just keeps getting angry with me.

So on a traffic light I would fully stop and I would switch to 4th gear. When the light turns green I let go of the brakes and let go of the clutch and the truck stalled. He yell and drop a few F bombs on me and after that I figure out not to let the clutch off too fast and to let the clutch off slowly. Well now I'm doing exactly that and the truck stalls again. He yell and drop a few more F bombs. At this point I'm starting to have anxiety because the trainer isn't really helping the situation. He is making me nervous while I'm outside on the road with pedestrians and cars. Every time we come to a traffic light, my anxiety is more of trying to not piss this trainer off than to actually learn how to operate this truck the correct way. I ask him questions and he gives me very vague answers and would brush me off like I'm suppose to figure this out myself. Finally he told me give it a little gas when I let off the clutch from a standstill. I did that and I would rock and jerk the truck and he would yell and drop F bombs on me again. At this point I'm not even sure what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to put two and two together and figure out what I need to do since the trainer doesn't even bother to explain and just yell at me.

The school is forcing me to go take the DMV test this coming friday but I feel like I'm not even ready to go since I can't even operate the truck correctly.

This is what I'm doing when I stop at a traffic light. I'm on the clutch and brake and the truck is on 4th gear. When the light turns green I release the brakes and slowly release the clutch until I feel like its moving forward then I press on the gas.

It seems I'm doing it wrong since I stall every time. Please help and give some advice since my trainer will not help me at all.
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Did school you going have only 1 trainer??? I am pretty sure no, so just go to whoever in charge and tell them to give you another trainer.
And 2nd why in the bloody world your trainer sending you on a street , ok you can't start on 4th gear, they just drive around your training yard untill you manage to drive off in 4th...
What name of crap school you went anyway?

PS, and if you trainer is not full of B's about he's 30 year experience , he know well that in real world there is no way you can start in4th gear fully loaded, so you have learn how to start from 3rd or 2nd gear anyway

snowmantrucking101 · Sep 22, 2019

k008 said: ↑

He won't let me go in a lower gear than 4th from a standstill. He will just yell at me again and tell me to put it in 4th gear. And yes I know there is more crap I have to deal with once I get out there working but working under pressure is different than trying to learn something new and constantly getting yell at for it. I worked under stressful situation before, but this is different I'm getting yell at for controlling and operating a machinery I have never worked with before. If I can't operate it then what else is there for me to do? That is why I'm getting anxiety is cause I'm helpless from the situation. I don't get anxiety if I'm getting yell at for something I have control, I have been in the hot seat plenty of time in my life. This is just frustrating and nerve-wrecking if I can't get help from a trucking school I paid $$$ for.
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You need to have a meeting with that "school" director because that's not working for you. You are paying the bill for that "teaching". If you're not learning correctly then find a better one.

k008 · Sep 22, 2019

WildTiger1990 said: ↑

Did school you going have only 1 trainer??? I am pretty sure no, so just go to whoever in charge and tell them to give you another trainer.
And 2nd why in the bloody world your trainer sending you on a street , ok you can't start on 4th gear, they just drive around your training yard untill you manage to drive off in 4th...
What name of crap school you went anyway?

PS, and if you trainer is not full of B's about he's 30 year experience , he know well that in real world there is no way you can start in4th gear fully loaded, so you have learn how to start from 3rd or 2nd gear anyway
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TGA Trucking School out in California. As far it seems he is the only trainer that takes students out on the road. Every other trainer stays in the yard teaching backing skills. But I will definitely have a word with the administrator of the school tomorrow. This isn't going to fly if I'm just a verbal punching bag for this trainer instead of actually learning how to operate the truck correctly. And like I said before I'm not sure why they forcing me to start from 4th gear. It's beyond me.

k008 · Sep 22, 2019

LoboSolo said: ↑

Start off from lights in 1st or 2nd. If the trainer goes off, then you just tell him that since yer driving, yer the captain of this friggin ship, so pipe down before you keel haul him.
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If I do that he will threaten to take me off the truck and drive me back to the school. He warned me before. lol

austinmike · Sep 22, 2019

Sorry you are having problems with a idiot instructor. I usually take off in 3rd when empty. sometimes 2nd. never 4th. Definetly talk to someone about it.

Tolmie · Sep 22, 2019

k008 said: ↑

So I'm at this trucking school and the guy teaching me out on the streets have very little patient and any mistake he yells and drop F bombs on me. Sometimes he get so angry he kicks the truck panels on the passenger side. He also has one of the thickest accent and he only say something when I made the mistake instead of correcting me before I make the mistake. Very little instruction is given while I'm out on the road. I have to literally figure it out on my own and since I'm new to trucking and also new to driving stick shift I figure he would have a little more patient with me but nope, he just keeps getting angry with me.

So on a traffic light I would fully stop and I would switch to 4th gear. When the light turns green I let go of the brakes and let go of the clutch and the truck stalled. He yell and drop a few F bombs on me and after that I figure out not to let the clutch off too fast and to let the clutch off slowly. Well now I'm doing exactly that and the truck stalls again. He yell and drop a few more F bombs. At this point I'm starting to have anxiety because the trainer isn't really helping the situation. He is making me nervous while I'm outside on the road with pedestrians and cars. Every time we come to a traffic light, my anxiety is more of trying to not piss this trainer off than to actually learn how to operate this truck the correct way. I ask him questions and he gives me very vague answers and would brush me off like I'm suppose to figure this out myself. Finally he told me give it a little gas when I let off the clutch from a standstill. I did that and I would rock and jerk the truck and he would yell and drop F bombs on me again. At this point I'm not even sure what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to put two and two together and figure out what I need to do since the trainer doesn't even bother to explain and just yell at me.

The school is forcing me to go take the DMV test this coming friday but I feel like I'm not even ready to go since I can't even operate the truck correctly.

This is what I'm doing when I stop at a traffic light. I'm on the clutch and brake and the truck is on 4th gear. When the light turns green I release the brakes and slowly release the clutch until I feel like its moving forward then I press on the gas.

It seems I'm doing it wrong since I stall every time. Please help and give some advice since my trainer will not help me at all.
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Your trainer must have taught at Swift academy because that’s the way it was taught to me. If the truck rocks back and forth, then you are letting your clutch go too quick. Try to let clutch out more slowly at the top. I’ve tried and 4th gear seems to be the sweet spot to start. New drivers seems to rev up that 3rd gear too high and you might not able to put in 4th gear and fail the test.

Also the road trainers are rude because they want to make sure you can drive under pressure. Don’t take it personal.

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