This man has taught me more in almost 15 minutes then my lazy instructors have going on three weeks at the Cdl school I'm at. They give us no instruction to what we are dealing with and just throw us to the wolves when we get behind the wheel then get mad if the gears grind or we stall out. I would of went to your school in a heartbeat if I would of known about your school earlier.

I learned more from your videos than I ever did in 3 weeks attending garbage Cdl school here in my home town. Thank you so much, I wish I could’ve have attended your school.

Showing those slow shifts and gear recoveries is so valuable

I am an experienced driver and I am learning a lot from your videos. I am having problems double clutching after 20 yrs floating gears. You have excellent videos, thank you.

I'm a newb. . my first 2 days of training I was having trouble double clutching in up and down . . but I found that I can easily now clutch out and float into gear. no matter if I am up or downshifting .. Love iT!

Great video! When I started driving trucks, guys I rode with just told me do whatever feels most comfortable to me. And I always just saw them floating, so I managed to pick it up pretty quick. Managed to get a CDL evaluator at the DMV who didn't seem to care that I floated the whole time. And watching this video helped with some of the finer details that you may not even think about. Like it's easy to panic when you are a newer driver floating, and it doesn't go into the desired gear right away. Thank You!

It's been over 20 years since I drive a split shift but I'm about to get back into it. This was a good refresher.

Man I can't thank enough this channel for their its videos,its full of information.i enrolled in a locaTrucking school here in town....they were only yelling all the time.....I couldn't do even a straight back....went to KZfaq and discovered this channel and after a month I went for my test.....I Passed everything on my first time......the only mistake I did was I forgot to put my seat belt while doing parallel....he just warned me......but I Passed....Thanks again!

Thanks so much. Way easier to learn watching your video than during the pressure on the road with the school ( left nameless) . Well explained too, some of us need the explanation of the mechanics that are taking place as well as the procedure so it all makes sense. I know I'll pass my road test and maneuvers this time. I've seen all your videos and they are outstanding to learn this trade by. Thank you , Thank you , Thank you.!!!

this channel is the best for student that are going to school

Very helpful to me! Especially the "don't panic" part. Much appreciated

When I went to driving school 45 years ago, they taught your Hybrid Shifting method. I thought it was weird, and since I always like to think out of the box, I modified this method. I take it out of gear without the clutch, and clutch it into gear. I call it partial clutching, and I always do this on a new truck that I am not familiar with, for about the first week. From then on I float all shifts. I tell my students that the secret is to get the engine to neither be accelerating or de-accelerating. Just in the middle, the transmission will get loose, and it will fall out of gear. Great video !

Just got my CDL bye bye double clutch! RPM shifting here we come!

Looks like a pro teaching, I like it very knowledgeable I love it when he says don't panic. 'Cause more likely that is what we do panic and nobody tells how to get out it. Definitely subscribing

Really enjoyed the flick , I'm in my second week of cdl and that helped a lot. Best flick I've seen 😊

Appreciate all your tutorials. Very clear, informative and helpful. Wishing everyone at CDL College, LLC all the best. Thanks and cheers.

Your videos are very helpful it’s unbelievable how hard it is to find a video that shows and explain in real time how to float gears

I just tested yesterday. Your videos helped me so much. I was having so much trouble downshifting for some reason. Now i don't thanks to your videos. Now i know how to float through the gears and hybrid shift. Now its time to land that trucking job and make some money. Thanks for your help

This instructor is good, I watched this video when I was in driving school and 6 years later still watch even though now I can easily drive 10- 13 transmissions. Thanks Doc!

This is a great video and learned a lot being a student in CDL school right now. Thank you!!

This channel is so helpful! I’ve been with Swift in an automatic for a few months so I’m rusty on the clutch. About to switch companies so I’m brushing up my skills with this video.

Wow it was awesome how they applied all the techniques at the end, double clutch, hydrib and floating!!! I was always wondering if it was possible to downshift floating gears and thanks to this video now I know!!! Can't wait to apply the hybrid as well!!! I just recently got my CDL license but I was only taught how to double clutch and was told about floating gears but like I said I didn't know you could float gears to downshift and didn't even know about hybrid shifting!!! Awesome video!! This helps a lot for us beginners because I'm sure employers look for this kind of knowledge on potential employees!

By far the best video I have seen on different shifting methods. Thank you so much for making it.

This video has been extremely informative. Thank you

Excellent tutorial for this struggling shifty newbie.

This video is very helpful 👌 in that you explain exactly what is happening and the sequence are repeated. Thank you i love these videos!!

Now I can double clutch for my examiner and if I'm too slow to gear I can just Rev till it slides in, thank you!!

Nice to see there are people willing to share expert knowledge and advice. Thank you, and know that there are people that do appreciate your input and work.

I work on a ranch and I was taught how to float shift a similar 10 speed in a straight truck. Double clutching is totally new to me. Also I'm still working on downshifting.

CDL College produces videos superior to most others. Good job guys!

Thanks for the video. Its very helpful. You really explain a lot. The teacher at my school never explains things. He just grabs our shifter and trys to force it in the gear after we miss our gear. Thanks for explaining the missed gears. I am ready for today thanks to you.

Best!!! Videos ever. Very formal and easy to understand. Thank you so much for showing a real practice video. If I only could’ve knew your school. Thank you so much. From NJ.

Thank you so much 👏👏👏👏👏👏 this is the way you supposed to teach step by step so Students get a better understanding

Very helpful. I wasn't taught how to double clutch and shift and this video explained it all. Now to put it to the test in the truck. Thank you.

Double Clutch 0:27. Hybrid 3:24. Floating 5:50. Fixing missed gears 8:20. Random shifting samples. 9:37.

good video, definitely helps to get a good introduction to different shifting methods

This is my 3th week of my truck school this videos help me to much thank u so much . I wish that I can pass my test in DMV this Friday.

Excellent teaching, I've learned a lot from watching this video.

Man your teachings are so clear and easy to understand. Thanks

This was well presented and very useful. I have gone straight to hybrid and floating my Eaton 10 speed.

That is my problem, missing gears and recovery is difficult especially when downshifting

I never knew anything about hybrid shifting, that's good information thank you!

Nicely done it all makes shifting a lot smoother very sensible thanks for the video

Great video. Still learning to double clutch and will watch it again to try the other two types of shifting.

Gear shifting is designed to the RPM of the engine and the speed of the truck. Old school instructors called it the V the high and low RPM to shift at that is the reason there is a tachometer in every truck. Floating gears can be very good but no transmission manufacture will recommend floating gears. The more you know about your equipment will make a more professional operator in every.

VERY INFORMATIVE. I WAS UNAWARE THAT THESE TECHNIQUES WERE POSSIBLE. THANK YOU!

I refreshing my skills to go back on road after 2 years out from drive recovering broken arm thanks

Very informative, I'm going to digest this and practise as much as possible

I just bought my first dump truck thanks again for the lessons. I appreciate it I will try it in my dump truck I need a 8llo transmission .

Thank you, I've struggled with missed gears, you explain it very nice

This is a wonderful teaching on how to shift gears!!!

I do hybrid shifting because we have shitty trucks but when ur on a good truck . floating gears is like butter .. Hella smooth

This the best shifting gear on KZfaq so far! Very helpful thankyou

Michael, great useful explanation of the complete shifting theory. Thanks!

Great video, this explained a lot of shifting gears. I think you can use the basics of this how to video and a ply it to 13 speeds or 18 speed shifters. Thanks for the guidance.

That gear recovery top really eases my mind, for some reason I thought if u lose a gear ur pretty much screwed, keeping it at the gate then revving to slide in is beautifully put, thank you 🤍🤝🏼

Great tutorial, really explains things neatly. My new employer is making me FLOAT gears, and will not let me double-clutch. He says that I'm ruining the clutch (by using it) and it making me float gears. It's nearly the craziest thing I've ever heard. Why would the manufacturer design it to be double-clutched and even include double-clutching instructions in the Owner's Manual if it were harmful to the clutch?! I may need a new job...

Thanks your videos are very informative. I have learnt more from your videos than from my cdl school.

Great video very helpful. I really like the explanation about the sweet spot.

Awesome video thought me a lot about floating and shifting

Thank you for these videos. They are so helpful.

If you can't find them, grind them. I love that old saying because it's true. I have a floating gears video that proves that.

That was a great explanation on how to shift good work ...

Thanks hope these helps tomorrow never grindded gear always floated clutched in may be grindded twice month now hafting to do double clutching man im grindded

best video showing how to double clutch

this has been so much helpfull for me i thank you for that easy explanation it is like taking 80000 semi truck of my back thank you,thank you

Thank you so much for your help you really have experience and know how to teach

Hybrid Shifting, normally, we would do that if we jammed the gear, and it won't go back in the next up or down, and would use the clutch to set the gear into position. Or if we can't release the gear forwards. It is a short cut, to help when we get a shift wrong say on a hill, when your loaded and the truck slows to fast for the Sync to Mesh. And by the way, Smack smack... your riding the clutch still. Bad habits are hard to break, but you need to keep the clutch free....

I hope I can do this....I am soooo nervous. Starting a new job tomorrow.

Very good teacher

very good information lots of help awesome videos

LOVE U GUYS🤣 an art form💯

Very nice video it help me a lot in , learning how to shift from low to high gear using the sweet spot, as my guide.

Great video

Good demonstration, Thanks 👏🏼

Sir, I'm trying to get my CDL Class A and I'm looking forward to enroll in your school soon. I've been watching most of your videos here in YT, and I think you guys are very professional and willing to help students to pass their CDL test. According to your website, you do one-on-one training, correct? But I'll take the whole course of Class A for continous 3 to 4 weeks, whatever is your requirement for the entire course. Even though, I live here in Florida, I am willing to travel to Colorado by car, as long as it's all worth the trip...:)

very well done, organized, clear and saftey orientated

great tutorial

Great instructional videos; these are organized, informative, camera work tracks the action, ...can't say enough good things. Question regarding "shallow" double-clutching - From watching your various videos, I think I understand the function and use of the 2 air actuated switches on the gear shift (Range selector and Splitter) and that you can pre-switch these in anticipation of the next gear (they seem to actuate with the transmission once in neutral), I also understand that only by depressing the clutch fully are you able to engage the clutch brake and engage a gear when totally stopped (non-synch transmission) but that you can float gears while moving and never use the clutch. So, what actually happens during those 2-3" shallow clutch movements that help the shift process from one gear to the next? What exactly do "shallow" clutch movements do with the transmission (vs deep clutch to the floor for the initial start from a stop) when double-clutching...they don't seem to do anything since you can float gears, make Range changes, and select Splitter choices, all without use of the clutch? Thanks for all you do!

Great video...i only know to double clutch. Thanks man

Unfortunately, I saved up $5000 just to go to this school. And so far they have done nothing but fail myself and other students when it comes to instruction. They haven't really gave us a walk through of the inside of the tractors controls . We take our books and sit inside as a small group and help each other to try and figure things out by reading this booklet they gave us. I never seen instructors take people directly on the roadways and highways when they have no experience with a manual transmission or a tractor trailer. Sounds like a recipe for disaster, like I told the instructors . If I would of found your program earlier, I would of been happy to make that trip to wherever location you guys have school at.

Slideshifting is the best strategy! Also the clutch last longer!

Thanks again, all of your videos are helpful

Excellent video 👍👍👍 Thanks

I can't shift double clutching! What a pain it is! I never understood how it was easier that way? I have floated the gears since the first time i stepped in a truck and drove it as a kid. Plus back then i was to short to be pushing clutches and shifting at the same time lol

Thank you, I appreciate your!😅

This is a great video. Better than anything else that I have found. I am still seeking one answer though. I just finished CDL and was taught to float when upshifting and use the hybrid when down shifting. My question is regarding use of the jake brake when downshifting. Assuming it is engaged, how do I properly downshift? Do I need to play with my throttle to disengage the jake during my shift? Thanks.

I'm loving it

I will probably reverse hybrid clutch my first true stickshift. Pull out of gear, clutch to gear.

Great work.

thanks this explains a lot been waiting for this video

Great video very helpful

I just got my auto restriction removed I like that hybrid downshifting taking away that second clutch may help cause sometimes I miss 8 and 6 for some reason

I use to drive truck with the double clutching and floating after I got my own truck the floating always saved the clutch on the road.

Floating the gears, looks cool, and I have done it for 43 years. Any Mechanic will tell you, that is what a clutch is for, to shift the gears. It is still considered a Bad Habit to do. In fact any Road tester should fail a student for not using the clutch. So teaching them how to Float, is not really a good idea. Besides riding the clutch, will end the life quicker anyway. LOL... What you are doing by Floating is taking the Synchronous of the Transmission and wearing them down. Eventually, the transmission will wear out and you will lose that ability to shift like that over time and even the clutch will not slow the speed and you will never get the gear unless you grind the heck out of it, to slow. The Only time this Floating comes in handy, is if your clutch breaks down and your out of adjustment. At a set of lights, you can shut down the truck in 1st gear, and start the truck into running and Floating gears can get you to a shop for repairs. A tricky maneuver, but it can help to get you in for repairs

Thanks. A lot help, but I will drive 13shift. Make video about that pls. Can't find in your channel. Your lessons easy to understand

Awesome video Thank you.

Awesome tutorial! When downshifting, what RPM do you start at and what do you REV the engine up to?

I always have a hard time downshifting from 6- 5th for example when stuck in traffic. It grinds and I'll just come to a complete stop and start from scratch

Great videos...Thanks brother!!!!