I have a manual restriction on my license I just got yesterday.

Unless you get into some more specialized stuff you will probably use the auto shift trucks for your entire career. When they can get better mpg and no clutch repair costs why would any owner put you in a stick shift?
Im a girl with no auto restriction who put a few months in on a manual 10 speed truck. I can tell you that shifting a truck ABSOLUTELY does not enlarge the package between your legs. Just drive what they give you.

 

well...if it ever really did, and me at 48 years when i retired, you spose my package would be wrapped around the world a time or two..??

i'd like to know where it is right about now..>!!!!

 

who...???

 

And if that happens to be a manual?

 

I doubt they'd hire a driver with the restriction if they have manual trucks. Or like my boss they'd ask. He has both. But his older Stars stay closer to him so any issues he can drive to and repair.
Mine being a newer auto crapcadia covered under a repair policy is the one to send far from home in case of my stupidity or random plastic air fittings cracking for NO GOOD REASON on the Cheyenne res....
Sure there are new off the lot manuals but rates are declining and will continue to. Newer drivers come from cars that have practically no stick shift anymore so you'd have to train them on the truck and wait for however long till they get proficient at the whole concept. While they get horrible fuel mileage.
Where's the gain?

 

Exactly. I didn't grow a new little appendage to celebrate my stick prowess so I doubt it'd do much for you guys.
I did however get a 'gritty knee' from 2 months in a horribly hard clutch that took about 9 months to fully go away. So ya my love for the manual is limited.

 

I fail to see how an auto gets better fuel mileage. Ratios are the same as the manual. Maybe if you're driving it like a racecar.