Not Even Good Enough To Be The Gum On Your Boots
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One thing that helped me was watching videos on you tube like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGYuONwK7Nc
Phil
Best tip I can give you... Don't over think it! Just do it and if you mess up you mess up on your shifting. If your shifting and you can't get it in just find a gear and get it in, most likely a lower gear than the one you are trying to get in. Kind of difficult to give good advice with me showing you in person.
Not sure how strict they are about your shifting but I would just rub and rev. That's like bad advice but I got my CDL doing that and then learned how to shift correctly when I finally went on my trainers truck.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
OWI:
Operating While Intoxicated
Best tip I can give you... Don't over think it! Just do it and if you mess up you mess up on your shifting. If your shifting and you can't get it in just find a gear and get it in, most likely a lower gear than the one you are trying to get in. Kind of difficult to give good advice with me showing you in person.
Not sure how strict they are about your shifting but I would just rub and rev. That's like bad advice but I got my CDL doing that and then learned how to shift correctly when I finally went on my trainers truck.
Ugh.. need a edit button but I meant to say it's hard for me to give good advice without showing you in person. That's just the way I learn and teach.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
OWI:
Operating While Intoxicated
I was horrible at shifting but one thing my instructor told me to do was clutch-shift breath clutch-shift. If you breath going into neutral then breath goin into gear you should be fine.
A lot of it is nerves too. If you learn to relax it will come to you. It will eventually just click and you'll be fine. Soon you'll be thinking this shifting stuff is easy and fun. 6th gear is always you save your ass gear.
A lot of it is nerves too. If you learn to relax it will come to you. It will eventually just click and you'll be fine. Soon you'll be thinking this shifting stuff is easy and fun. 6th gear is always you save your ass gear.
Yep, and it's usually pretty easy to get into in city traffic. Just slow down to about 15 mph, clutch to neutral, blip the throttle to 1000 or so, clutch to 6th. As long as you don't push the clutch in far enough to activate the clutch brake, you're golden. A lot of people in my class -- including me -- had issues with that habit from driving cars.
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