Armstrongs - Your Truck, Motorcycle & Forklift Licensing Specialists
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Thank you! I've passed my HR licence but looking for a job, so watching these videos help with a better understand of what needs to be done with loading! thank you!
Hi congrats can you explain to me what do I need to focus most of my attention on I have theory test coming up tomorrow and the practical the day after. Thanks
@@Mustafa.Sadullah All depends on your state. Read the road rules in the PDF you can find online on the transport department site. In the truck when you driving there's a lot to watch out for, speed, checking mirrors, indicating on time, again speed, judgement of what others are going to do infront of you etc, there is a lot to take in man, if you never drove a HR before and you going to sit the driving test straight away you will most likely fail. Find an instructor or someone who is a truck driver.
I’ve just completed my HR license on a non synchro box. Major head f$&k even though I’m a well versed driver of manual cars for 40 years plus Changing down across high to low with reving between changes and clutch movements… OMG
Just a note of caution, I watched this video and thought I would be right to choose a non synchromesh or 'Crash Box' transmission for a 2 day Heavy Rigid course and assessment in Australia. I could barely shift up and down on a straight back road let alone do the test around town with roundabouts because you also need to make sure you are in the right rev range before the gear will engage. I was in an older Kenworth with a long gear stick shaft coming out of the floor and could barely tell what gear I was in and couldn't get a feel for the gate at all. Luckily I was able to switch to a Volvo with a Synchromesh gearbox for the rest of the course.
I am almost certain I trained in that very truck. nearly 20 years of working in the industry as a casual to supplement my income. These guys were awesome trainers!
I am a young Moroccan married born in 1978, a father of two children, a girl and a boy, I have no criminal record, a professional driver, and I have all kinds of driving licenses here in Morocco. Please help fulfill this desire to indicate that I am a professional driver and want to work in a civilized advanced society. Please accept me sincerely
I am a young married Moroccan, born in 1978, father of two children, a girl and a boy, I have no criminal record, a professional driver, and I have all kinds of driving licenses here in Morocco. Please help fulfill this wish to indicate that I am a professional driver and want to work in a civilized high society. Please accept me sincerely thank you
I am a young married Moroccan, born in 1978, father of two children, a girl and a boy, I have no criminal record, a professional driver, and I have all kinds of driving licenses here in Morocco. Please help fulfill this wish to indicate that I am a professional driver and want to work in a civilized high society. Please accept me sincerely
Well done sir made your point crystal clear in 2 and a half minutes!! Just watched another video that took 13 minutes to describe the same thing and still didn't understand a bloody thing!!!
From what I can tell, the gearbox internally is somewhat like a dogbox (IE: dog gears) so double clutching itself is something I have practiced before. What about for down shifting? Do you need to rev match with the throttle? Or just employ the same double clutch method as shown here? I'm looking to do my HR licence and was thinking to just do the test in a truck like this anyway. Might as well get licenced for everything. Maybe won't use it, but at least I have it if I need it :)
My grandpa was a long distance truck driver in BeNeLux, France and Germany. During school holidays I could always come with him and soon enough he allowed me to sit on his lap and hold the wheel or have my hand on the gear lever with his hand on top to work the gears. When I was still small enough for his lap, and too short to reach the pedals, he drove a non-syncro Mercedes and I remember getting tossed up when he double clutched. 😂😂😂 He started working at the age of thirteen delivering milk with a horse cart and started driving a milk truck at sixteen. In the army he got his license for tractor trailer and started hauling at nineteen. And did so, in a Scania, till he was 73, when he was rejected at the annual health assessment for his poor eyesight. He died eight months later, in his sleep. The evening before, my dad had told him over the phone that he had bought an Iveco. Before grandpa put down the phone he said « I hope you ordered a chain and magnet with it, to retrieve the parts that fall off...and buy a thick crossword book for kids, you gonna have to kill a lot of time, you donkey » And to think that later on in high school, the student counsellor really believed I was gonna become an electrician.
In North America we do not drive synchro transmissions in our heavy trucks. We run double 53 foot trailers with far higher payloads than you run in Britain. Many of our trucks have 18 speed transmissions and they are non synchro transmissions. A few years ago Volvo offered a multispeed transmission that was synchronised for the North American market. They are no longer available. The reason is because you have to use the clutch with these, and with a multispeed transmission that would be a lot of clutching. Most of our veteran drivers shift without the clutch, and they do it effortlessly and smoothly. The synchro transmissions are just too much work. They hated them here. Synchros are for Europe where they pull lighter loads and single drive axles.
Yes, you guys do run heavier loads than us, and far heavier than those Brits. Here we run "rigid" trucks in the city for the most part. Our big super B trains and double 53 foot trains run on 4 lane highways. We run 18 speed crash boxes in many heavy semi trucks here, and most guys would not be double clutching that many gears, so I found it entertaining to watch. Our green drivers do double clutch. The veterans, not so much. I have driven long haul for 44 years and if I double clutched every gear in all those years I would have a lopsided left leg, or I'd be crippled.
Yes, I do teach new guys to double clutch and when they have mastered that I teach them to partial clutch (no clutch out, single clutch in) and then I teach them to shift with no clutch ( floating) and just a light two finger touch. BTW, our guys don't know what a "rigid" truck is. Here they are called "straight jobs" and they are 5 or 10 tons and have synchro 6 or 7 speed transmissions. The new ones are all automatics. Most guys here could not (or would not) drive a manual. They are very rough. If the city haulers want drivers they must give them automatics. The whole industry is being dumbed down.
