How To Drive A 13 Speed Semi Truck (Floating Gears)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ย. 2022
- How to effortlessly shift a 13 speed transmission (Driving Peterbilt 579)
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Ok, by far the best video on shifting a 13 speed! Thank you!
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Now I feel confident on shifting a simi and without clutch. Doesn't seem too hard. Awesome video and shifting man! 👍
Thank you 👏🏻
Wowww That Really Isn’t That Hard I really touught it was harder than that i heard you can even drive as you driving a 10 speed but only until 8th gear idk if thats true
Depends on the truck
@Perseus1275 tbh it’s a whole lot easier to shift a 13 speed than it is a 10. Most of the time you’re going to start in 4th, so you go 4-5 then flip the switch for the high stage and do all your highs and lows. But once you get up to speed and your on the highway, climbing a hill you have more control and power.
Once you start to climb a hill with a 10 speed, you need to: push in the clutch, take the gear out of its position, give the engine some throttle to drop the gear. With a 13 speed you can shift to the low gear while applying throttle and simply release the throttle to go into 10-low. You still have to use the same technique as a 10 speed when going from 10 low to 9 high but not as often which smooths out your ride.
@@pastexpiration2160yea bro it’s hella easy lmfao it’s intimidating but really shouldn’t be
Instructions unclear I flipped the semi
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You actually explained it very well, I really want to learn how to go thru the gears while driving down the road, I’ve moved a 13 speed T680 but it was around the yard because the tech that was woking on it didn’t know how to drive manual and even then it felt really cool to move a truck like that
Best way to learn is just to experience it. A 13 speed works in an H pattern and to split the gears, it brings your RPM’s about halfway down in your sweet spot when you put it in the high of that gear. With a 10 speed, you have to pull it clear over to the left and back to put it into 6th gear. Your low range only helps to gain momentum from a dead stop.
Thanks for the info! Explained it pretty good. I've never had to drive anything higher than a 10 speed but always to expand my driving ability
Explained it fast and easy, better than any other video explaining for like 20 min straight and then driving for like 3 mins😂👏🤙🏻🤙🏻
2 things I loved about driving was shifting and backing up. During the day I worked the yard in a shunt truck and the afternoon was spent on the big city roads delivering loads or picking up usually either hanging meat or boxed meat. That boxed meat was heavy but kept me in shape. Too old for that now. Excellent video
Wow! You made it easy to understand how to do it.
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Don’t lie, you’re just brown nosing lol
You did a better job explaining than my brother-in-law, who spent way too much time either laughing or swearing at me. 13-speed and a ten-yard dump back in the day.
As a rookie i drove a 13 speed kay double ya in a concrete mixer. Fun times and also nail biters.. but now being experienced for 7 years I get a smile on my face remembering.
It’s been years since I drove a 13 speed.I watched ur video to refresh myself b4 I start my new driving Job,So Thank U 😎
I listened from the first to the end it's not confusing at all it's very good you should be a teacher for some people how they're driving a truck
Video was perfect. I just talked to my boss today about getting into a 13 speed brand new truck, & it will be my first manual. Thank you for this video bro
Appreciate this man explaining the RPM's and when to shift was really helpful
I like your comprehensive explanation. Absolutely understood. Very very useful.
That's interesting. I'd never become a trucker but that gave me more of an understanding on how a 13 speed works. 1st thru 4th, 5th, 5th high, 6th low, 6th high, etc. I never knew what high and low gears meant and thought there was actually 13 gears
I get overwhelmed with information really easily, but this felt totally comfortable to me! I just play truck sims and simply assumed the gearshift was massive, but now I know it's a layered thing
What truck sims do use?
@@mahlz24 American Truck Simulator on Steam, it's a game and it costs money
ATS is so much fun, it's making me want to try it for real 😆
Best tutorial out there so far bro 👌
Perfect demonstration. Perfect. Perfect.
This really taught me even more because I drive only 8 & 10 speeds and never experienced more than 10, Thank you👍👍
Same here
Yup, 13 and 18 speeds sound way more scary than they are.
Black "needle" is the Range selector. Red "needle" is the Splitter. The gear you are trying to call 12th is 8 Lo. Use to be 8 Direct before the Direct and Overdrive splits had to be dumbed down to Lo and Hi.
Yea never heard of the term "needle" used before lol
I thought the splitter in the up position was direct and the splitter down is low. Because how I picture it all working, is the auxiliary box is just a reducer, (splitter switch down activates it.) and the splitter up is using main box ratios with the auxiliary box in a direct or pass through state. ?
@@johnstarks5323 No, not in this 13 speed with the red button/selector. There are deep reduction transmissions available with a blue button/selector.
I was told many years ago not to "pre select" your split !
You flip your splitter as you're moving the shifter through the gate !
@@richardswann5300 There is an instructional video directly from Eaton on TH-cam that tells you to pre-select the Range shift and the split.
very clear and concise. Just passed my air brake course today, and will start driving school next week. thanks for calming my nerves, at least for now! hahah
Used this vid as a refresher. Haven't driven a 13speed for 4 years
Best way I learned is to be gentle with both the throttle and the gear shift. Just let the throttle float down until you can gently pull out of gear, don't let off the throttle all at once. The trick is to eliminate any pressure on the actual gears inside the transmission so they're not binding and can easily disengage.
Thank you for this! I've been struggling with the accelerator and how much throttle to give it. Perfect explanation.
Not many people knows this, but if you put it into low gear, while the ranger is up, you can use it as a 4th gear. It's very useful when going around a corner and you're too lazy to flip the ranger down and back up again to go into 4th. Or you can go from 3rd to Low, then use the splitter to go into 4th hi. This really changes the way you drive the truck
Good to know. I like the Eaton super 10 myself.
Ranger ?
@@danp7463 I'm talking about the 13 and 18 speeds transmissions. 10 speeds don't have low gears
@@hopeimright2026 The thing you flip up and down to go from low range (Low 1 2 3 4) to high range ( 5 6 7 8)
@@CestBonPourVous o ok
Thanks man! I'll be training on a manual transmission and opted for gear floating. This really helps to let me know what I'm in for!
Solid instructional video brother 👍
I also noticed how he floated his gears. This was by far the best explanation that I've found on the topic of shifting. The only way to drive a big rig.
Thanks bro I can break into them I just need to know how to drive em. If you got any videos on how to hotwire that would be great! Thanks bro
Am always proud of you am in Kenya my dream is to be a semi truck like u
So I've been out of trucking about 1.5 years went through a rough time in life Yada yada...but I just got my cdl transferred to OK, got my medical card I was worried I might of forgot how to float, but watching your video brought back alot of memories very informative thanks buddy.
You nailed it man!! Explained it in simple working man's language, i have watched some video's done by experts 🤔 and I'm none the wiser, feel i could drive one of these transmissions after 5mins watching you
I had to slipseat into a 13-speed on one day's notice. I had never driven a 13-speed before, only 8s, 9s, 10s and Super 10s. I watched this video the night before getting into a 13-speed for the first time, and I was able to drive it with no problems. Thanks Alex!
You can do it with any manual shift transmission .I float gears in cars ,not as easy
Any big truck with a manual you can float gears with proper RPM. Class 8 trucks ,some class 7 trucks
Can you please do another video downshifting? Downshifting to come to a complete stop and downshifting to come to a slow roll? I can shift well, but for some reason I struggle to down shift
Downshifting is more difficult than upshifting when first learning to float gears…most people get the upshifting nailed down before really getting downshifting mastered.
Thx man, just clear nformation without any extra words
Yeah! I understand it. Good video. I was looking for exactly this and you were the first video I watched. Good job bro
Not sure why TH-cam recommended this to me. I don't even know how to drive a car. But great video!
i learned the 18 speed in a truck simiulator. Once i learned i could float gears i was so much happier. I love watching people explain how to float and double clutch gears, not sure why, but i do. that was a good demonstration. im curious if you were heavy in this video? in the simulator when im light, i start in 3rd, float to 5th, float to 7th until im up to speed. i only use 1st, 2nd, and 4th when heavy. Do you ever shift this way in those situations or do you always go in order regardless?
If you’re at the right speed then yeah I suppose you could skip gears. In my rather limited experience using a manual, it was easier to skip gears when I downshifted. Going from 60mph at 13th gear I could slow down in neutral and put it a different gear depending on the speed. Didn’t do it much mind you, just if I ever lost my gear when downshifting one gear at a time 😅
Oh I forgot to mention I found it difficult to not stall the truck if I started in a high gear. 2nd gear was the sweet spot for me.
How do you remember what gear your in
@@antonioparker5734in a simulator you will learn to tell by how fast your going, which will change with incline and decline, and weight of your load. I only assume that's irl as well.
Awesome job of showing the way and making it easy. Thank you
Good video Nino 👍🏻
Biggest vehicle I've driven was a 5spd 5ton so I always assumed semi's were the same with 13 gears/slots to go through and I always wondered how they kept track of which gear they were in 🤣. This seems much easier and manageable 👍
I counted gears when I first started but now I don't really think about it anymore
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The first time I drove a semi truck it was my dads 18 speed Volvo. (I live in the country) I drove down our road and I floated the gears not perfectly but pretty good for my first time and I double clutched perfectly according to my dad that was like a couple months ago and I’m 12 lol
Feel Like This video Helped me out alot. thanks bro !
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is it the same floating the gears like that on a 10 speed?
Can u keep that truck but can u add the other stuff that was in your white truck in that truck pls
I thought you always needed to push the clutch in to shift in and out of a gear
Nope
No, you can. But it wears out the clutch faster & I feel like it’s a lot easier without it 😅
Thanks man !!! Getting ready to go to school. Definitely a helpful video. 👍🏼
Real men drive automatic.
*disclaimer it's a joke.
Automatic? And I disagree
Ya automatics are for little girls
@@westernstarkid nothing like floating a 10-speed
@@csxrailfan632 I wouldn’t know read my name
@@westernstarkid wdym?
in cdl school now. so excited to learn more and become more.
great video
This vid was super helpful thankyou👍
Cool! I appreciate that! My next job will probably have 13's so it was nice to see how it was done
Thank you. I’ve been a trucker driver for almost 10 years and have only driven automatics. Hoping to get my restriction off so this helps.
Honestly. The best tutorial vid I saw on this. Thanks man.
i don't know if we have the 13 speed/ shift in sweden but i was so stressed about the gear part of my training and now i feel calmer. like it's just a much bigger version of a car, so thank you for that
You showed it better then anyone else on here from videos I was looking at thanks
Good stuff man. I don’t move the truck to far so mostly just drive the damn things in 8 gears but now I know how to get the remainder gears when needed.
This is probably the best explanation and demonstration I have seen
Awesome video, this explained a lot. Heading back to the oilfield and they said they are buying me a 13 speed. This video helped me understand
The best example ever seen!!! Anyone can learn from this, thank you Sir. Houston, TX.
Appreciate it! I try to not be so technical about the names of stuff & try to explain it as simple & in a way anyone can understand.
Great video! Right now my truck is being upgraded from a 10 speed to a 13 and also gear ratio upgrade on my differentials. Thanks for the video it will help.
this the same exact way i was taught. everything on point
Thanks bro! 🔥🔥
Aww man, thanks bro ! Keep up the good work.
Thanks I've only been driving 10s so this was new really helped
I ain’t gonna lie I was confused at the beginning but once you were explaining as you drove it made a lot more sense. I’m going to reserve a spot in class to get my CDL hopefully in February, ready to start driving.
Thanks for the video, it helped me understand better this type of shifting, awesome.
Plan on watching this every day for a couple years till I get confident to get ready to take the test
i dont even have a CDL but now I can add semis to my list of vehicles i can steal and joyride. Thanks Alex!
I understood most of the things you mentioned, my uncle showed me today and it was essentially what you described. He put me to practice and the truck did stall and I let my nerves get to me but it was my first time. I’m sure as I gain more experience I won’t have to worry anymore about worrying hehe. 😅
What Great Demonstration, Every instructions is understandable.
Appreciate you bro
Great job explaining bro. You made it very simple and easy to understand
Appreciate the knowledge 🔥
Good video bro thanks reallly clear and makes sense .
I learned on that exact transmission. I was doing dirtwork building an offramp, the one and only time i snapped the driveline... lol that was fun. The road is calling me back after a 12 year vacation.
So much for getting straight to the video.
Thank you Alex for the video.
Great job Kid I needed a refresher course!
Thanks for your help bro
Thank you I just got a 13 speed and had no idea how to drive it. 😅 thank you so much great instructions.❤
Thank you for teaching me. Very easy way of showing it done.
Great job my friend
I'm learning to drive a 13 speed an yur video help me a lot. Keep sharing more.
He made it the best way to understand or get the feel and i hope that truck that he demonstrated on was his new truck
Really good teaching for us. Thank you.
Awesome!
Coming from a 10 speed manual.
Love your video.
Thank you well done from South Africa.
At first was confusing on after 4th gear, then to go to 5 low, was the needle, 5 high red needle, and so on. Was better understanding when you got the rig out on the road...THANK YOU for this! NOW I understand even better!
The reality of the situation is you don't even need to drive it like a 13 speed. Just an 8 speed. 1,2,3,,4...splitter, 5,6,7,8 and then when ur over 60mph on the highway, flip the red switch, let off the gas, and then accelerate again, puts it in the final gear. When slowing down off highway, let off gas, flip switch back, then accelerate, moves it back to 8th and you can downshift like normal etc. That's the way my instructor taught me.
You did a good job... you have the gift of explaining.. thanks.
Two-speed rear axles, Brownies, splits, 9, 10, 13, 15, and 18-speeds...drove them all. The 13-speed was my favorite.
Now I get it. Straight to the point not over talking
Great video! I start this week in a 13 speed Volvo. Gracias!
That was cool, I love trucks. Thanks for doing this video.
Thats real simple and cool video about shifting. Thanks
Easy explanation and i like it that you took it to the freeway and not just theory. Probably a downshift in freeway or regular road would be nice to see
Thank you so much bro
Thanks just got everything I needed to know
Thanks for the video
awesome explanation, enjoyed watching the video. Thanks...
Very very helpful I’m about to start classes for my cdl thank you