PACCAR reports over 80% of all new trucks ordered from them are being ordered with automated transmissions. Fleet managers are telling PACCAR the new crop of young drivers cant drive a stick and the expense of replacing burnt out clutches as they learn is killing the trucking firms. !
Then the gear box rotation stop clutches and clutches need to be build more robustly, they need to be up to the job, they probably need to build a more robust thicker clutch disk, or a more easily meshable gearbox, there shouldn't be any truck gearbox that can't stand up to haul work or new drivers, a gearbox shouldn't be that precious
You shifting 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th (Range up) then shifting 5th then splitter forward that was 10th or 12th Please ? My second Question is You're driving 5th gear with splitter forward then push splitter back and then shifting 6th that was 12th or 14th Please ?
@@1966human Thanks foe that - I watch it again in April 2024 - Now I request one thing that how to use that 18 speed climbing the hill I mean 1st gear + splitter forward, 2nd gear + splitter forward, 3rd gear + splitter forward, 4th gear + splitter forward / range up 5th + splitter forward etc... up to 8th + splitter forward
As it happens I had some leg trouble when i went running, I have an automatic car now and only drive the road ranger every now and then, the others are fully automatic ( don't work properly ) and early clutch automatics ( clutch is used to put the truck into gear and at red lights )( always braking down )) for me personally the using the clutch is better, it could also have something to do with the type or model of Eaton Fuller gearbox, one driver where I work used the clutch only occasionally with his own driving style
""WHY IS THESTEERING-WHEEL SITUATED TO THERIGHT INSTEAD OF TO THELEFT""????? ""THAT DOESN'T LOOKRIGHT, ""I WILL NEVER BUY A EUROPEAN-TRUCK, ""STEERING-WHEEL SITUATED TO THERIGHT, ""THE-ENGLISH INFLUENCE SUCKS""!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks for the video, enjoyed it a lot
Nice work mate
Gearbox is RTL020918B ( good gearbox )
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PACCAR reports over 80% of all new trucks ordered from them are being
ordered with automated transmissions. Fleet managers are telling PACCAR
the new crop of young drivers cant drive a stick and the expense of replacing
burnt out clutches as they learn is killing the trucking firms.
!
Then the gear box rotation stop clutches and clutches need to be build more robustly, they need to be up to the job, they probably need to build a more robust thicker clutch disk, or a more easily meshable gearbox, there shouldn't be any truck gearbox that can't stand up to haul work or new drivers, a gearbox shouldn't be that precious
Nice
I wanna get a job driving trucks. What do ya reckon? I’ve got my Heavy Combination but only done a few hours on pretty open roads.
This guy left leg must be bigger than the right!!!
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That's how I like it
The real perfection
Clutching all the time would drive me up the wall. Do you float gears at all?
Can do, that white western star has a silky smooth gearbox, ill try to get the model number and put it in the Description section
You shifting 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th (Range up) then shifting 5th then splitter forward that was 10th or 12th Please ? My second Question is You're driving 5th gear with splitter forward then push splitter back and then shifting 6th that was 12th or 14th Please ?
5th splitter forward would be 10th gear, 6th splitter back would be 11th
@@1966human Thanks foe that - I watch it again in April 2024 - Now I request one thing that how to use that 18 speed climbing the hill I mean 1st gear + splitter forward, 2nd gear + splitter forward, 3rd gear + splitter forward, 4th gear + splitter forward / range up 5th + splitter forward etc... up to 8th + splitter forward
Yes splitter back splitter forward until you reach the crest of a hill and can grab full gears, that's how I was taught and what worked for me.
hi sir, does ur leg not get sore double clutching?? american truckers drive without using the clutch... just an info sir :)
As it happens I had some leg trouble when i went running, I have an automatic car now and only drive the road ranger every now and then, the others are fully automatic ( don't work properly ) and early clutch automatics ( clutch is used to put the truck into gear and at red lights )( always braking down )) for me personally the using the clutch is better, it could also have something to do with the type or model of Eaton Fuller gearbox, one driver where I work used the clutch only occasionally with his own driving style
HI no one on you tube shows how to downshift these trucks using the gears, can you?
That will be on my video " how to use an 18 speed gearbox ( full video ) "
@@trucks8137 Thx!
Were you driving in low?
What model western star and what engine? Thanks
I think its a 4800 and Detroit diesel, its got the best road ranger gearbox ive used so far, I'm not sure of the gearbox model, I can find out
Lost me with all that clutch action
Hello I am truck driver i am 49 yo arab who need me
""WHY IS THESTEERING-WHEEL SITUATED TO THERIGHT INSTEAD OF TO THELEFT""????? ""THAT DOESN'T LOOKRIGHT, ""I WILL NEVER BUY A EUROPEAN-TRUCK, ""STEERING-WHEEL SITUATED TO THERIGHT, ""THE-ENGLISH INFLUENCE SUCKS""!!!!!!!!!!!
It's ok man we wont bite, I drive on left and right side.