Tanker Companies That Use Automatics?

Service Transport has Mack autos, IIRC.

 

Oakley transport is going auto as the older trucks are phased out, Indian River has some autos

 

CTL is all M-drive auto Macks

 

Tidewater Transit.

 

Fuel delivery services, williams tank lines, and my company. they are great in traffic and are simple to drive. I personally like to shift gears and when I hauled asphalt oil in an auto I didn't care for it much. When I needed to climb it could be unresponsive and WAY too many jerky up and downshifts- not good when your pulling liquid. I've never noticed slosh as much as I have in an auto. In a manual you can time it and make the surge work with you. That auto made that liquid slam around because it'll just shift on ya.

 

Prime has auto's? Since when? Company or lease drivers, all divisions have them?

 

From my understanding new company trucks are coming in with them or you can lease and pick one

 

Ok thanks! Just got the call today from recruiter, set up for orientation 10/3! Going to Pittston PA, dedicated Tanker division out of Newark NJ. Supposed to be weekly home time!

 

Are they pushing you into a lightweight for that account?
They had a dedicated account near me that I talked to them about for a bit out of Decatur but in order to be on it you had to lease a lightweight.
I haven't heard much bad about Prime's tanker division, but I have heard a lot of bad about Newark, NJ in general lol

 

I'll ask my recruiter next couple a days. I had one my last OTR gig, drove down to Florida and back once a week! It wasn't bad. I was home for 2 1/2 days a week though. That was back in 2011 for 2 months. I got laid off and been doing local peddle routes on Long Island for the last 5 years! Starting to really hate lumping my own freight every day, especially lift gate residential deliveries!