IMBSB many years ago I looked inside a now unmemorable type of truch exceot it was definitely American and I think probably a WW2 3 axle truck which had had a beautiful paint job including stenciled across the top of the cab the words: no long distance coasting
I have always wondered:
a) what is coasting - is that in gear but with foot on clutch or is it with box in neutral out of gear?
b) why is it prohibitied and does that apply only to that specific US truck?
Please educate me before I get older and/or destroy a different vehicle to which this driving style applies but of which I am ignorant. If I undertand coasting to be as defined in a) above I do that all the time on down slopes in my car to save petrol!
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IMBSB many years ago I looked inside a now unmemorable type of truch exceot it was definitely American and I think probably a WW2 3 axle truck which had had a beautiful paint job including stenciled across the top of the cab the words: no long distance coasting
I have always wondered:
a) what is coasting - is that in gear but with foot on clutch or is it with box in neutral out of gear?
b) why is it prohibitied and does that apply only to that specific US truck?
Please educate me before I get older and/or destroy a different vehicle to which this driving style applies but of which I am ignorant. If I undertand coasting to be as defined in a) above I do that all the time on down slopes in my car to save petrol!
John
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