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<blockquote data-quote="Yeet" data-source="post: 4821436" data-attributes="member: 76343">Everyone grinds or rubs a gear here and there. The trick is knowing how to fix a gear when you miss it.&nbsp; When I was new at it, I watched the tach and speedometer a lot to figure out my next gear. In a 10 speed, you add the two numbers on the speedometer together to figure out what gear it needs when downshifting. Ex: 25 mph -&gt; 2+5 -&gt; 7th gear, 35 mph -&gt; 8th gear.&nbsp; Eventually you won’t need your gauges anymore and you will know what gear the tractor needs going by the sound of the engine. The onroad doing my test told me I “couldn’t shift gears for smile*” but passed me because I nailed the pre trip and backing and I was safe on the road. Bottom line is, you’re going to suck at first, we all did.My hub absolutely will not let you take your state exam in an auto. If you do that, you will have an automatic only restriction on your license and you will be “no good to us” to quote our feeder manager. We still have a decent amount of standards in the fleet but every tractor we bought past 2015 is an auto. Eventually we will be all auto because standards are going to way of the dodo, no one even makes them anymore. Maybe when that happens my hub will allow drivers to have an auto only license.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yeet, post: 4821436, member: 76343"] Everyone grinds or rubs a gear here and there. The trick is knowing how to fix a gear when you miss it. When I was new at it, I watched the tach and speedometer a lot to figure out my next gear. In a 10 speed, you add the two numbers on the speedometer together to figure out what gear it needs when downshifting. Ex: 25 mph -> 2+5 -> 7th gear, 35 mph -> 8th gear. Eventually you won’t need your gauges anymore and you will know what gear the tractor needs going by the sound of the engine. The onroad doing my test told me I “couldn’t shift gears for smile*” but passed me because I nailed the pre trip and backing and I was safe on the road. Bottom line is, you’re going to suck at first, we all did. My hub absolutely will not let you take your state exam in an auto. If you do that, you will have an automatic only restriction on your license and you will be “no good to us” to quote our feeder manager. We still have a decent amount of standards in the fleet but every tractor we bought past 2015 is an auto. Eventually we will be all auto because standards are going to way of the dodo, no one even makes them anymore. Maybe when that happens my hub will allow drivers to have an auto only license. [/QUOTE]

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