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Message:: [QUOTE="Twicebit, post: 3332999, member: 102244"]Here's what I did to learn to shift.  From what you're telling us, it sounds like my initial experience with a bad instructor was similar to your husbands: When I trained with Prime, I had a bad instructor.  All he did was yell when I couldn't shift.  He was a nightmare!  I got off his truck and went home for a break.  I called the company that Stevens Transport used to take their future drivers through CDL School, in Henderson Colorado.  I worked a deal with one of their trainers who I met and felt was calm and could really help me.  I paid him $200 and within 90 minutes he had me shifting up and down through the gears, when in about a week, this hadn't happened with my CDL instructor.  Go find someone and explain what training you feel you need as far as shifting and how being yelled at and intimidated is something you won't pay for.  See if they'll help you.  Work out a deal with them.  Pay up for it.  That was my only option and I did it and it worked...  I went back to Prime and completed my training.[/QUOTE]