Any companies still run manual transmissions?

I was just trying to help out anyone who forgot to set their wakeup alarm

 

i run an Allison - that I spec’d specifically when I ordered my latest truck.
I am over 60k empty right now and regularly grossing 130-140k ( should be 210 but that is another story) and I climb every hill everytime. Yes, it took me about 15k miles to figure out how to make the trans do what I wanted it to do when I wanted it to do it.

I am not sure when climbing a hill at 75 mph became requirement. I remember when older trucks would climb every hill at 25 -35.

Strangely, I don’t feel less like a real trucker. But my trucks are built as tools to do a job.

 

At one time, drivers/companies were afraid to trust air ride suspensions, yet today they are standard equipment, at one time drivers/companies were afraid to trust power steering, yet here we are, at one time drivers/companies were afraid to trust a/c systems, at one time drivers/companies were afraid to trust air ride seats, so, let me pose this question, you're afraid to trust an automatic transmission, and yet you trust those new fangled other pieces of equipment, why not order new trucks without all that new fangled equipment?

BTW, all 4 trucks they've bought for me over 21 yrs have all had a/c system failures, on one truck I had to drive from Denver to Seattle and back in the heat of summer with no a/c, took 3 days to determine the problem when I returned, the truck I just came out of, the a/c failed going from Denver to Albuquerque, in July, it hit 105 on the drive to Alb., when I got there at 9 pm, it was still 96, not a hotel to be found, I tossed and turned all night, maybe slept 2 hours, the next morning, my 3 hour, 8 am live load took 12 hours, it hit 104, I was not allowed out of the truck except to go to the restroom, despite these failures, the company still orders a/c, I mean, why trust it, we know it's going to fail, guess we should order without. My current 2021 KW, every so often the a/c will turn off, still not sure why the company ordered a/c on the truck, it's a system prone to failure. Then, there's that darn air ride suspension, first truck they assigned me, back in 1998, loaded 44K of bricks at a place in Pueblo, Colo, 3 miles from the shipper as I'm getting on the interstate, the right rear airbag blew out, knew they shouldn't have bought a truck with air ride, sat on the side of the road for 2 hours before the company could get someone out to cap off the tee so I could inflate the system and limp back to Denver. Few months ago, I was passing an Allied truck on a rough stretch of interstate, one of his airbags blew out, still can't figure out why someone would trust that system.

 

So, they'll be equipped with spring ride suspensions, solid mount drivers seats, 2x55 a/c, armstrong steering and triple sticks with super granny low?

 

You'll have better luck with smaller 5-20 truck fleet companies finding a manual. Might even get lucky and find a 13sp