Are "manual transmissions only" types of drivers supertruckers?

In general, I agree, but there are exceptions. For a while I was running US 30 across Indiana so much I had the lights timed. I knew which ones I needed to accelerate hard from in order to catch the rest green getting through town without stopping again and which ones didn't matter. I think is was Columbia that if you got stopped at the first light west bound, if you didn't get up to speed as fast as possible then you got stuck at EVERY light.

One week my trainee made the drive from Ft Wayne to Gary and it took 4 hours. Two days later we had the same load, at the same time of day, and I elected to make the drive because our 70 was getting short and I wanted to make sure we had enough time to get home. I made the drive in 3 hours, and got better fuel economy to boot.

 

Every onramp...

 

I do like the control a stick brings. It is easy to control when backing up, but not going to call anyone a sissy for not driving one. I am driving a yard truck that is auto.

 

Very much prefer manual vehicles for a variety of reasons, but to these younger drivers, they never even seen a vehicle with a stick shift because they're basically no longer a thing in cars (why I miss living in the '80s and '90s). But when I drive a smoothbore tank, I find it doable to control my own vehicle with a manual transmission.

 

I’ve been gone for a while. It’s sure nice to hear from you guys, the response you put out is freakin awesome. I’m just glad I’m old school, than, pre school. Ha ha ha