autoshift companies

PTL Murry KY, Averritt Express Cookeville Tn


I think they both higher NE. Not advocating either one just seen they have auto shifts.

 

Yes, let's make a list of the company that I will NOT be applying to.


real truckers shift their own gears.

 

You tell 'em rook


Oh wait I kinda like mine

Guess I don't get to be a real boy

 

US Express, Interstate


American Trucker

 

Boy, what an attitude. I don't really care what you used to do, but there is no reason for getting ugly.

When you drive a truck with a standard transmission, you get a different "feel" for the vehicle and the road. Having driven both, I much rather drive the stick, even though with a bad shoulder, the autoshift would be easier.

When you learn driving the 10 or whatever speed, you learn to use more than just the right foot down on the pedal. You listen to the engine, get the feel of the truck on the road. There is nothing wrong with an autoshift, but having just come out of the winter from hell, there is no way I would want to drive one in the adverse conditions we have had.

My company has a few autoshifts, but combine that with the supersingles we run, which supply just "wonderful" traction, I don't think I would have wanted to deal with the autoshift on top of that.

 

I can choose any gear for my autoshift. Having the ability to feel what was safe for my truck and cargo is how I chose the gear.

Same as someone with a "stick' would.

The transmission can be used entirely automatically, or manually, or a combination of both.

Don't like Super's. I understand why they are used, I just don't like the ride (rut's), enjoy the ability to limp to a shop, and frankly do not like sticking my tires twice a day which I always felt I had to do in the year I ran them.

 

Not trying to sound like an old fart, but I've been doing this a little while.
Back when I bought my first 379 with a 550Cat 13 speed you couldn't tell me nothing.
Automatics were just starting to become a little more common at the time and I would be the first to tell you that they were strictly for women, children and rookies.
I've changed my stance since then. As a company driver now, I don't have a choice in what I drive anymore and I'm not giving up this job over it.
This automatic is not my first choice, but it's not that bad either. The one I drove in a Freightliner was junk. Not the transmission, but the computer setup in the tractor.
Volvo seems to have it figured out.Programmed correctly and a knowledge of the controls makes it fairly enjoyable.
I figure I've changed my share of gears over the years, so as the old saying goes, I won't fight it "just lay back and enjoy it"

Back in my large car days I also thought that I wouldn't enjoy trucking if I couldn't be behind the wheel of something long, fast, sexy, shiny and dripping in chrome.
Years later I realized that just doing what I love is good enough.

 

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