Automatics in LTL

Buddy at ODFL hasn't mentioned it.

I hope this isn't the way of the future . . .

I don't feel all supertrucker unless I have some buttons to push, switches to flip, and gears to mash.

 

averitt has very few sticks left

 

I am sure some carriers are moving towards autos to fill seats with incompetent drivers that can't shift gears.

For me personally, absolutely not. I will not run an auto.

 

Or maybe to speed up training?

I think older people like them.

 

I love auto. I miss mine. Ill go back to one any day

 

If you rarely got on the interstate and drove city streets almost the entirety of your daily shift I guarantee you would choose an automatic. I used to think like you, but shoulder and elbow joints wear out.

 

an LTL carrier i once worked for, had a few. i was line haul, so all the line haul guys had them, however, when we got back in the mornings? the city guys would take them, that we shared them with. many complained they do not like them. that may have changed now, i do know for a fact, the class b trucks have them.

 

I just boughta new 2017 Cascadia auto. Was apprehensive about it at 1st, but immediately feel in love with it.
It's fantastic in the mountains and city streets.