What important skills of truck driving did you learn after your first year of trucking?

What did you learn after your 52nd week of trucking?

 

Not quite, but I’m still an old man

 

Well y’all young whipper snappers don’t have to look back very far

 

Floating is easier than double clutching.

 

floating and clutching is the same rythm. As long as they dont over think it. I don't even think about shifting, I just do what the truck wants me to do, sometimes a little tap on the clutch is what it needs or wants to drop into gear. You just drive the truck, don't over think it. If your having trouble stop running arounfd all the time with your engine brake on, shut off the engine brake when your not using it.
Back to trainers can not teach what they do not know. Engine brakes are for speed control more than stopping it self, In that cab everything you do affects something else.

 

I find it difficult to believe it took you that long.

Your trainer either did you a gross disservice, or you're not too quick on the uptake.

 

My trainer at Covenant never mentioned it to me. I was a trainer at Covenant for 2.5 years, and I never mentioned it to my students either because I did not know about it. I guess fate wanted me to continue that Covenant tradition of not informing students that one should never back up a tractor-trailer on a city street without a spotter standing outside the truck watching your blind spot.

 

I think there’s an extra number in there ha ha ha

 

I will edit this for homeskillet.

I have had the police come out and spot for me when I had to back out into a public street because I had a low bridge in front of me or I had to alleydock into the public street probably 15 times in my career. I don't look at these approximately 15 times that I backed into the public street with the police blocking traffic for me and watching my blind spot as a mistake because the police officer would tell me to stop if a car or motorcycle was in my blind spot behind the trailer.