Companies running automatic transmissions?

Do the companies that run auto's also hand out these?
"super trucker starter kit!"

 

I think you have to buy them at the "Big Time Company Truckers Store" for 250% markup!

 

why all the razzin'? simple question-simple answer....

all's that's necessary....mho...

 

If you have to ask....You probably wouldn't understand.

 

There ain't no razzin'

Just simple explanation that if you can't shift the gears manually.... Then you have no business driving a truck!

Yes.. There are many old timer's who prefer auto's.... But they still know how to shift a manual when & if needed.... But if you can't do a manual, then you are a worthless weight placed upon this industry.

 

Well, don't sugar coat it men.
I'm on the fence with the whole automatic thing. Probably because I haven't been around driving for years with gear shift in my hand.

It does remind me of the "If I need a dam# phone I'll Fn pull over and find one" bunch when cells started coming out.

or the "If you can't Fn read a map moron, you shouldn"t be Fn driving a truck" bunch when GPS came out.

Technology has changed and will continue to change everything we do.

My buddy who is getting a waiver to drive (Left his left leg and part of a hand in Afghanistan) is very much thankful that there are auto trucks out there. Me to.

Being a new grad, I'll go to a company the will hire me. If they drive auto's well at least I'm working. I did here a rumor that is as yet unconfirmed that US X is buying standard in the next fleet. We will see.

He may be the poster. His name is Smith............
Max

 

And when I started driving I didn't know how to back a fricken trailer up... Did I search out a company who would just bobtail me across the country?

I've sweated, I've screamed, I've cussed, I've held other driver's up, I've hit ####.... But I can back a #### trailer!

So why can't people do something as simple as shift a gear?

 

I never saw anywhere that he or she said they couldn't shift a truck. I would also think that if they just got there cdl that they had to test with a stick.

 

I thought you were a skate boarder so you didn't have to back up?

 

Not so! I met a driver a couple weeks ago who was on day 7 of being a truck driver. Driving for US Xpress because this person was trained at a CDL school with nothing but automatics....