Just in case no one has told you, your videos on how to shift and float are the best on the internet and TH-cam. Trust me I have looked at a lot of them. You have a gift for explaining things and including the proper details.Trust me I have looked at a lot of videos on shifting and no one is explaining it properly as you are doing?
I have been a professional semi driver for over 15 years, and this is the way it is properly done. It isn't complicated... You just have to match your engine speed to your transmission speed, which you know from your road speed. This information is good for any manual transmission, as long as you know your speeds, it will work.
@@bussy7264 your lying, no average person can jump up into those big machines and do what they do daily. Which makes them professional truck drivers ya hater
You'll get it Nicholas. Pay attention to your speed/RPM and you'll do just fine. So what if you grind a couple. Pretty soon, you'll feel those gears drop in like nothin'!! Good luck to ya and keep the rubber side down! "Eagle Claw" on the side.
My new job that I’am starting soon, their trucks are 10speeds. I’ve never driven a 10speed before 😳. I was nervous just thinking about it, until I watched a couple videos. It’s not as bad as I thought🤔. I already know how to drive a manual, just never driven a 10peed. I just received my class A permit over a month ago. I had a class B. My new job is going to train me on their trucks. Once I get comfortable, I’ll take the truck out for my driving test. I’am nervous, and excited at the same time. Very good video 👌🏽.
Thank you for taking the take to make this. I'm working on getting my CDL and have been struggling with the downshifting, I can downshift but it's not always clean. Your explanation and "rev in neutral" will definitely help me. Thank you
I have been driving professionally for 2 years. Mostly automatics though. I haven’t really had to do much shifting. Not since CDL school. Your videos have brought me up to speed on floating.
Bro! That's how it be out here. Luckily, there are still companies that use both. Having those shifting skill come in handy! Never know when you'll be placed in a manual. It is a great feeling to be able to go from not being able to remember what gear you are in, to knowing when to shift by the sound of the motor, and never having to use the clutch to upshift or downshift. I still watch these videos. I fell in love with the whole CDL process. I only have had my license for 4 years, but I am always trying to become a better professional. Stay safe out here homie!!
You make it easier for people to understand how to shift the gears in this truck , it's like you driving a manual shifter car . and thanks for putting the camera on the top so we can see the whole cabin and the way you drive .thank you so much .
Yuh video a wan a di easiess fi overstand pon TH-cam bredda. Mi a learn pon a dump truck rite now an it well diffrent from standad inna car. Mi a watch yuh video a few more time an den mi a ago si wen the practical come 'round weh mi can apply. Bless up family 🇯🇲
This is a great video. I’m fresh out of CDL driver training school. The only way we can shift is double clutch every single gear. It’s terrible and outdated. Then when school is done, now I have to learn how to float gears.
Very good video Sir. The way you presented it will help a lot of newer drivers that are given a 10-speed to drive, to make their lives easier! Prefer a manual over the newfangled automatics these days, as I feel you have better control, especially in winter driving.
I’am hearing that Caribbean accent Mi brudda,I’am from St.kitts🇰🇳but now living in Toronto 🇨🇦and I have a friend that was trying to convince me to get my trucking license for years,but only now I’ve decided to get it and the manual is what I’am interested to learn,Very helpful video.#Bless up🙏🏽👊🏽
Island love 🇯🇲 go for it. I have created these video to help people have a better understanding of the concept. Thanks for watching from Canada big up!!
@@FaroutTruckin For real....... Now I have the confidence to drive tomorrow morning to get the job. I'm all the way in Jamaica so big up to you from Jamaica.
Bro your badass i just got my first cdl job and my trainer is not that good at explaining things to me. This video is great i will try this tomorrow I'm probably going to impress my trainer, leave him in the dust
Thank you for your video I haven't driven a truck in 4 years. Needed a refresher course your video was on point. Loved your video have a blessed ones keep on trucking man haha
I love this video it is very smooth and compelling I like the concept of floating gears I must say good job on this video bro because I know this video will help others and even myself in the future
Another well done video. I used to drive 30 yrs ago and getting back into it part time. The time I appear to have trouble is say your going along in 9th and you slow down fairly suddenly, one is I have trouble deciding what gear I should be in and then I grind away. Can I still just go by the rpms no matter the speed of truck and simply get it up around 14 to 1500 let it drop a bit and go into any gear without grinding? Basically I have trouble on a rapid slow down. Thanks again!
Thanks for passing your knowledge along make more videos you make it look easy but we all know it takes practice and patience and you seem to have that 👍👍👍👍
Anyone ever gets the opportunity to drive a 5 spd Mack do it because you really got to let those RPMs drop to shift a 5 spd is a different type of driving unlike the multi speed progressive shift gear boxes the reason I’m telling you this is so you have a easier time learning to Skip shift on the 9 or 10 spd road ranger gear box when you are Bob tailing or deadheading with an empty trailer on you shift 2 4 pull up your air range changer go to 6 8 10 this is Bob tail or pulling a Empty it takes some practice to get the feel you got to let those RPMs fall more than you would for progressive shifting every gear that’s why I mentioned driving a 5 spd Mack will help you understand about letting the RPMs fall to shift if you try and shift progressively when skipping gears it won’t work you will grind the gears which is bad on the transmission same with trying to shift the 5 Speed Mack progressively it will not shift you will grind skip shifting saves fuel and wear & tear on the truck & you too only do it when Empty or Bob tailing when your loaded you must shift all gears in sequence
If u make the shift in 2 seconds you will not have to rev to go to 9th gear, but if you take longer than 2 sec to shift, your rpm will drop and that’s when you will have to rev match and go to 9 ( same as recovering your gear).
@@FaroutTruckin i just got my class A last week im nervous to start on my own or float gears on steep hills or being stopped at a hill and rolling back as well
Thank u for ur video I just learning next 2 week I have the test my question did I use the Gas to get 1500 RPM when I upgrade or down shaft to Neutral ? Then I will use it to move the gear from N to other gear ,,hope u explain it to me
Automatics everywhere nowadays. Iwill say once you learn floating you'll never double clutch again. You literally use the gas pedal to go in and out of gears. Clutch literally disappears until you start and stop.
I am planning to get my truck license. I don't get when do you press the clutch during gear change? it looks like it is different than a normal manual car.
Hey man I gotta question so I can float up shifting but not down I have to double clutch.when I down shift I have to give it gas to get it in neutral then I have to give it a little gas to rev the rpm then I just take my foot off of the gas after and slip it into the lower gear ? Or do I hold the gas when I rev and put it in gear ?
I only use the clutch to take off as well. What is the point in double clutching? I don't understand. I've never done it in 20 years. Maybe clutch on a hill to get out of a gear if I got caught snoozing in cruise control, but never a double clutch. Ever.
Any tips on downshifting while loaded going up a hill? I'm having trouble with this since the rpms are dropping much faster than usual bc of the hill and being loaded. Thanks
Downshift early. If you feel like the fuel pedal is dead and engine is becoming quiet and truck slowing down. That means downshift. Downshift early at 1300 and rev match to 1800 rpms.
Great video, I want to apply at Walmart but I heard they test you in a manual transmission and I been driving automatic for 2 years and pretty much forgot how to drive a stick shift. Any advice on where to practice driving manual again?
If I were you, I would watch videos to get familiarize with the concept of shifting once more, practice in a manual car double clutching and downshifting. Thereafter, pay a cdl driving school for only a few hours of refresher on manual 10speed. I guarantee Walmart trucks are spec with 10speed transmission.
You can preselect the splitter up in 5th. It doesn't actually change to high until the transmission goes into neutral. When in 6th you can preselect the splitter down to low. It will not change into low until you shift into neutral before downshifting back to 5th. (So basically you can preselect high or low. It just doesn't do anything until you shift to neutral then it has changed before you go into next gear.) I hope that helps.
I just passed my cdl Class A road test yesterday afternoon all thanks to your video my man! Thank you soooooo much!!! You helped me in ways you won’t even know!🥹❤️
FINALLY , a video showing the common sense real world way to shift an EATON FULLER TRANSMISSION..........all this stupid extra work nonsense of double clutching is making me sick........i want to throw up listening to all this math and gear ratio stuff.........you'd have to be EINSTEIN to remember all that garbage , shift the freakin' thing in a parking lot or somewhere out of the way and get the feel of it and then go out on the road and practice.........i know guys you would think they were born in a truck and they NEVER learned the math and gear ration stuff.......they shift and you hardly ever hear the gears click.............
@@naturallybran4240 from my experience the hardest part was convincing employers I’m a solid driver, I never once fail to attain a job. Hence why I create these videos to give new cdl drivers like myself an advantage by improving their shifting skills.
Do you have to rev in to get out of gear and rev to get back in gear?, im a new driver and floating gears looks way easier then double cluching... new subscriber, keep coming out with the great content 👍🔥
Make the k sing brrrrrrrrrrpppppp 🇯🇲…. Am currently doing class for my CDL A license second day on the road, need to work on double clutching. Wish it was just one press I’d be good bro. Great video on floating gears 👊🏾!
Could also be one press, to do this you would bring your rpm to 15, foot gently off the gas, take the tranny out of gear and single clutch to next gear.
Just in case no one has told you, your videos on how to shift and float are the best on the internet and TH-cam. Trust me I have looked at a lot of them. You have a gift for explaining things and including the proper details.Trust me I have looked at a lot of videos on shifting and no one is explaining it properly as you are doing?
Appreciate it
Yes, I have looked at a lot of vids too and this by far was the easiest to comprehend. Straight to the point. Thank you
Nope dumb lazy !
I have been a professional semi driver for over 15 years, and this is the way it is properly done. It isn't complicated... You just have to match your engine speed to your transmission speed, which you know from your road speed. This information is good for any manual transmission, as long as you know your speeds, it will work.
Never would have that that, thanks for this info💪🏽
Ain’t no such thing “professional truck driver”
@@bussy7264 Hmm... I do it for a profession. Guess I am confused.
@@bussy7264 your lying, no average person can jump up into those big machines and do what they do daily. Which makes them professional truck drivers ya hater
Very impressive
I wish I could like this video a thousand times. The best and most thorough way of explaining floating gears I've seen.
Did my first delivery today in a 10 speed. Never knew how to float gears before. This video gives me a little more confidence. :)
You'll get it Nicholas. Pay attention to your speed/RPM and you'll do just fine. So what if you grind a couple. Pretty soon, you'll feel those gears drop in like nothin'!! Good luck to ya and keep the rubber side down! "Eagle Claw" on the side.
My new job that I’am starting soon, their trucks are 10speeds. I’ve never driven a 10speed before 😳. I was nervous just thinking about it, until I watched a couple videos. It’s not as bad as I thought🤔. I already know how to drive a manual, just never driven a 10peed. I just received my class A permit over a month ago. I had a class B. My new job is going to train me on their trucks. Once I get comfortable, I’ll take the truck out for my driving test. I’am nervous, and excited at the same time. Very good video 👌🏽.
Thank you for taking the take to make this. I'm working on getting my CDL and have been struggling with the downshifting, I can downshift but it's not always clean. Your explanation and "rev in neutral" will definitely help me. Thank you
I have been driving professionally for 2 years. Mostly automatics though. I haven’t really had to do much shifting. Not since CDL school. Your videos have brought me up to speed on floating.
Bro! That's how it be out here. Luckily, there are still companies that use both. Having those shifting skill come in handy! Never know when you'll be placed in a manual. It is a great feeling to be able to go from not being able to remember what gear you are in, to knowing when to shift by the sound of the motor, and never having to use the clutch to upshift or downshift. I still watch these videos. I fell in love with the whole CDL process. I only have had my license for 4 years, but I am always trying to become a better professional. Stay safe out here homie!!
You make it easier for people to understand how to shift the gears in this truck , it's like you driving a manual shifter car . and thanks for putting the camera on the top so we can see the whole cabin and the way you drive .thank you so much .
Best video I've seen. Needed a refresher on shifting. I've gotten way too comfortable driving automatics.
Like a boss, awesome video, thank you for sharing 👍I need to practice my downshifting, it's what's giving me issues at work.
Good instructional video on floating. Im currently in truck driving school learning how to float
Yuh video a wan a di easiess fi overstand pon TH-cam bredda. Mi a learn pon a dump truck rite now an it well diffrent from standad inna car. Mi a watch yuh video a few more time an den mi a ago si wen the practical come 'round weh mi can apply. Bless up family 🇯🇲
This is a great video. I’m fresh out of CDL driver training school. The only way we can shift is double clutch every single gear. It’s terrible and outdated. Then when school is done, now I have to learn how to float gears.
You are gifted at teaching.
Very good video Sir. The way you presented it will help a lot of newer drivers that are given a 10-speed to drive, to make their lives easier! Prefer a manual over the newfangled automatics these days, as I feel you have better control, especially in winter driving.
Not a problem brother. When someone is doing something right there needs to be acknowledgement.
This man smooth sailing them gears! Great video. Working on getting my class a soon!
That’s what’s up!
I’am hearing that Caribbean accent Mi brudda,I’am from St.kitts🇰🇳but now living in Toronto 🇨🇦and I have a friend that was trying to convince me to get my trucking license for years,but only now I’ve decided to get it and the manual is what I’am interested to learn,Very helpful video.#Bless up🙏🏽👊🏽
Island love 🇯🇲 go for it. I have created these video to help people have a better understanding of the concept. Thanks for watching from Canada big up!!
Very very very professional brother !!! My respect goes out to you. I got a job offer and this is the video I watched to know how to float gears. 👊🤝
That’s it.. great news👍
@@FaroutTruckin For real....... Now I have the confidence to drive tomorrow morning to get the job. I'm all the way in Jamaica so big up to you from Jamaica.
@@christopherblackwood5782 good luck
Pls can u help me get a job offer
Which state you reside in?
Good job young man! Haven’t driven in about 7 years, miss doing so in oil fields of Alaska
Bro your badass i just got my first cdl job and my trainer is not that good at explaining things to me. This video is great i will try this tomorrow I'm probably going to impress my trainer, leave him in the dust
Thank you for your video I haven't driven a truck in 4 years. Needed a refresher course your video was on point. Loved your video have a blessed ones keep on trucking man haha
Appreciate it 🤝
I love this video it is very smooth and compelling I like the concept of floating gears I must say good job on this video bro because I know this video will help others and even myself in the future
Very helpful on floating gears, thanks for your time ,from Corpus Christi Texas
Thanks for watching
Another well done video. I used to drive 30 yrs ago and getting back into it part time. The time I appear to have trouble is say your going along in 9th and you slow down fairly suddenly, one is I have trouble deciding what gear I should be in and then I grind away. Can I still just go by the rpms no matter the speed of truck and simply get it up around 14 to 1500 let it drop a bit and go into any gear without grinding? Basically I have trouble on a rapid slow down. Thanks again!
I probably shouldn't be watching this since I have my DMV road test next month lol
Good easy explaination, not long winded confusing bs
Awesome video!… you taught it right demonstrating an talking through definitely helped!… thanks for teaching others !
Simple demonstration, great tutorial video. Like a boss👍🏾
Awesome thanks, you are a good teacher.
You are welcome!
Today I saw your post about floating I like it I can't wait to try I am a student but automatic my school don't recommend to start in manual
Very nice and easy tips to learn more thank you
You're a great instructor. Keep making videos
This really work for me bro good videos 💯
Hell yeah bro! This helped me soo much! Thanks
good explanation dude. learned something thengs alot man
Thanks for passing your knowledge along make more videos you make it look easy but we all know it takes practice and patience and you seem to have that 👍👍👍👍
You Official I'm just learning smooth sailing through them gears I subscribed !
Keep up the great work brother bless 🙏🏿✊🏿
You the best one explain how shifting 10 speed transmission
yes bro i am about to taken heavy truck driving schooling classes i want you to be my coach
Dam good vid bro prechatecha ya ming
Mostly all drivers float gears rite
Good stuff...
Actually have an interview with this company in garden city.. are all the trucks 10 speed??
Can you show me how to down shift with jake break and up shift with the jake break on
Anyone ever gets the opportunity to drive a 5 spd Mack do it because you really got to let those RPMs drop to shift a 5 spd is a different type of driving unlike the multi speed progressive shift gear boxes the reason I’m telling you this is so you have a easier time learning to Skip shift on the 9 or 10 spd road ranger gear box when you are Bob tailing or deadheading with an empty trailer on you shift 2 4 pull up your air range changer go to 6 8 10 this is Bob tail or pulling a Empty it takes some practice to get the feel you got to let those RPMs fall more than you would for progressive shifting every gear that’s why I mentioned driving a 5 spd Mack will help you understand about letting the RPMs fall to shift if you try and shift progressively when skipping gears it won’t work you will grind the gears which is bad on the transmission same with trying to shift the 5 Speed Mack progressively it will not shift you will grind skip shifting saves fuel and wear & tear on the truck & you too only do it when Empty or Bob tailing when your loaded you must shift all gears in sequence
to down shift, rev it up to neutral, and downshift to lower gear, my dad says, rev it up also to downshift to lower gear
Rev it up while in neutral then select lower gear - YES 👍🏽
@@FaroutTruckin oh ok
New to channel. You don't haul fuel anymore??
No no longer!! It was a good gig for the time I did it.
Can you please do a video with the rpms and foot placement your videos have helped me out alot
Check out my other videos 👍
When downshifting, how are you pulling it out of gear?
Very smooth!
I'm looking at the CDL jobs on indeed and thinking of putting myself though school. is the money really that good ??
Rev to what rpm when downshifting? I grind and can’t get it in. I have to start from 3 again.
Question right when u upshift example 8 to 9 when ur RPMS are at 1500 when u take it out of 8th do you rev it to go up to the 9th or ?
If u make the shift in 2 seconds you will not have to rev to go to 9th gear, but if you take longer than 2 sec to shift, your rpm will drop and that’s when you will have to rev match and go to 9 ( same as recovering your gear).
@@FaroutTruckin i just got my class A last week im nervous to start on my own or float gears on steep hills or being stopped at a hill and rolling back as well
This is good shit bro 👍🏼
Thanks for watching 💯
Brother can you please explain how to float gears up shifting and down shifting in writing please I'm training in 8 speed truck
can you shift if you go past 1500? Mine never wants to shift up past 1500, or it grinds
Thank u for ur video I just learning next 2 week I have the test my question did I use the Gas to get 1500 RPM when I upgrade or down shaft to Neutral ? Then I will use it to move the gear from N to other gear ,,hope u explain it to me
I need to learn how to shift
Automatics everywhere nowadays. Iwill say once you learn floating you'll never double clutch again.
You literally use the gas pedal to go in and out of gears. Clutch literally disappears until you start and stop.
what about the splitter?
Great video bro!! I’m a new Driver for manual! I learned a lot from you!! Thanks
thank you bro im working on my shift kenworth thnks
I am planning to get my truck license. I don't get when do you press the clutch during gear change? it looks like it is different than a normal manual car.
Thank very much
Good video 🤟🏽
Thanks for watching
I love it, please I want to learn how to drive truck trailer.
Kindly introduce me to reliable driving school.
Great video thank you!
Mashallah
What RPM do you down shift when I try it , It grinds & I have to wait to slow completely down to start @ 2-3 gear SMH
Great video
I grind gears to downshift to 5th from 6th gear I hate it man.
And I can’t thank you enough.
Hey man I gotta question so I can float up shifting but not down I have to double clutch.when I down shift I have to give it gas to get it in neutral then I have to give it a little gas to rev the rpm then I just take my foot off of the gas after and slip it into the lower gear ? Or do I hold the gas when I rev and put it in gear ?
Are you paid by the load, or hourly?
I only use the clutch to take off as well. What is the point in double clutching? I don't understand. I've never done it in 20 years. Maybe clutch on a hill to get out of a gear if I got caught snoozing in cruise control, but never a double clutch. Ever.
Any tips on downshifting while loaded going up a hill? I'm having trouble with this since the rpms are dropping much faster than usual bc of the hill and being loaded. Thanks
Downshift early. If you feel like the fuel pedal is dead and engine is becoming quiet and truck slowing down. That means downshift. Downshift early at 1300 and rev match to 1800 rpms.
Great video, I want to apply at Walmart but I heard they test you in a manual transmission and I been driving automatic for 2 years and pretty much forgot how to drive a stick shift. Any advice on where to practice driving manual again?
If I were you, I would watch videos to get familiarize with the concept of shifting once more, practice in a manual car double clutching and downshifting. Thereafter, pay a cdl driving school for only a few hours of refresher on manual 10speed. I guarantee Walmart trucks are spec with 10speed transmission.
So you flip the splitter while still in 5th gear? I thought you did it in neutral?
You can preselect the splitter up in 5th. It doesn't actually change to high until the transmission goes into neutral. When in 6th you can preselect the splitter down to low. It will not change into low until you shift into neutral before downshifting back to 5th. (So basically you can preselect high or low. It just doesn't do anything until you shift to neutral then it has changed before you go into next gear.) I hope that helps.
Let's say you want to go faster while in reverse. Can you use high range or do you have to use low and switch to high as you go? Thanks.
While in reverse, one wouldn’t want to reverse with the splitter in high range.
If u want to use high range to reverse, no need to go between high and low just select one.
@@FaroutTruckin oh ok. Thank you so much man.
I only downshift to go faster at fresh🚦green lights😈
Hey bro..you got Jamaican ancestry in ya?
👍👍👍
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What is the red button for
Yellow is tractor and red is trailer parking brake
Red one is trailer air supply which is the trailer brake
Great video. Well explained.
gas...,? accelerator
Someone needs to let you know
Thanks man 🙏🏽
Floating gears fucks up the transmission
U talk RPM in terms of upshifting but not downshifting
Haha ndakurova
You gring twice when try to go to 10th gear that's not good 😕
I just passed my cdl Class A road test yesterday afternoon all thanks to your video my man! Thank you soooooo much!!! You helped me in ways you won’t even know!🥹❤️
I bet it does driving like a Cadillac a brand-new truck try driving a war out piece of shit that grinds and the clutches is gone
Ride smoothly
FINALLY , a video showing the common sense real world way to shift an EATON FULLER TRANSMISSION..........all this stupid extra work nonsense of double clutching is making me sick........i want to throw up listening to all this math and gear ratio stuff.........you'd have to be EINSTEIN to remember all that garbage , shift the freakin' thing in a parking lot or somewhere out of the way and get the feel of it and then go out on the road and practice.........i know guys you would think they were born in a truck and they NEVER learned the math and gear ration stuff.......they shift and you hardly ever hear the gears click.............
Better off going to a real Cdl training that offers a job otherwise you’ll be stuck with a Cdl an no one will hire u
After I got my cdl March 19th. I got a job on Mar 26th & had 2 other job offerings the same week.
@@naturallybran4240 from my experience the hardest part was convincing employers I’m a solid driver, I never once fail to attain a job. Hence why I create these videos to give new cdl drivers like myself an advantage by improving their shifting skills.
Do you have to rev in to get out of gear and rev to get back in gear?, im a new driver and floating gears looks way easier then double cluching... new subscriber, keep coming out with the great content 👍🔥
Don’t know much but to either shift up or down you need at least 1300 rpms apx.
Great job... Very helpful 👏🔥💯👍
Thank you
Make the k sing brrrrrrrrrrpppppp 🇯🇲….
Am currently doing class for my CDL A license second day on the road, need to work on double clutching. Wish it was just one press I’d be good bro.
Great video on floating gears 👊🏾!
Could also be one press, to do this you would bring your rpm to 15, foot gently off the gas, take the tranny out of gear and single clutch to next gear.