Super ten shifting on grades, what am I doing wrong?

The Eaton manuals say to always pre select.

 

I always preloaded the button... never clutched. Loved my super 10. Bout my fav trans to drive

 

Here's the Super 10 manual:

http://www.roadranger.com/ecm/group...roadranger/documents/content/rr_trdr-0550.pdf

 

This video may help also. Pay particular attention to the part where it says that you need to learn how to drive YOUR truck. They're all a little different.

Personally, I never use the clutch after starting out. And I don't even use the clutch to start, if I'm on a downgrade.

 

Times 2

 

The only transmissions I "pre-selected" was the air 4x4, and the old Mack air shift Super 10's. You can pre-select, I'm sure millions of transmissions are shifted that way, it's just, if you pre-select, I've found, if you miss the next main gear for whatever reason, with the pre-select spinning away, you'll never get into gear, unless you grind the heck out of it. In over 3 million miles, I never ruined a transmission, not once.

 

I do it the same way. Shift to neutral and button while I go into gear.

 

But what do we know, we are just a bunch of old veteran drivers that can’t keep up with the know it all newbies . I been driving since 1979...... and never pre selected and never broken a transmission. “Ain’t I special”

 

What, what, what, we still talkin' about this? Get going, you'll learn on the way ( a boss would say)