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BravestDog · 02-23-2006, 09:23 PM

I've never driven a Class 8 truck.

I have driven class 7's with automatics and manual transmissions in cars for 35-40 years.

How long would it take for me to learn to shift a manual transmission on a class 8?

Would it be impractical or impossible to get a friend to drive a class 8 manual transmission who has never driven one before?

Would there be a lot of mis-shifts, grinds...can a person do it immediately or with some practice...? How much practice?

anyone?

02-23-2006, 09:23 PM	#1
BravestDog Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 748	I've never driven a Class 8 truck. I have driven class 7's with automatics and manual transmissions in cars for 35-40 years. How long would it take for me to learn to shift a manual transmission on a class 8? Would it be impractical or impossible to get a friend to drive a class 8 manual transmission who has never driven one before? Would there be a lot of mis-shifts, grinds...can a person do it immediately or with some practice...? How much practice? anyone? __________________ "I have marveled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety." Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic Explorer, Sea and Land, 1874-1922.