How To Drive A 13 Speed Semi Truck (Floating Gears) 

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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

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Have you ever stalled a truck and what do you think about western stars ?

Love it

‘ight Ima downloadthis

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

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Don’t lie, you’re just brown nosing lol

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 😆

Same here

Yup, 13 and 18 speeds sound way more scary than they are.

Thank you for this! I've been struggling with the accelerator and how much throttle to give it. Perfect explanation.

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

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 RU-vid that tells you to pre-select the Range shift and the split.

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

Downshifting is more difficult than upshifting when first learning to float gears…most people get the upshifting nailed down before really getting downshifting mastered.

I counted gears when I first started but now I don't really think about it anymore

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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.

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No, you can. But it wears out the clutch faster & I feel like it’s a lot easier without it 😅

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

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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.

Really? Back in the 80's I drove city busses that were automatics but never heard of trucks that were automatic. Do you have any idea why the US and Europe are flipped? In the US there're many, many people who have never been exposed to manual transmission cars. I prefer a manual on open roads but in city traffic an automatic is much easier.