Automatic trucks

I was waiting to take a driving test with a few drivers once and one of the guys had never driven a standard and he had five years experience.He didn't pass.

 

The wife and I had an auto for two weeks and we requested to get back into the 10speed. What happened to us was they suck in snow. I-80 Wy in a white out- you want to stay in 4th- #### thing shifts on you even in manual mode- just because I got a little to slow. Nearly slide off the road- lucky for me we were at the bottom of the hill.
I will say on the cross bronx expressway they auto was real nice to have.

 

can you say grammar/spellcheck???.....haha jk

 

I've driven 8,9,10,13 and 18 speed box's for most of my career, I've driven an 18 sp auto box that still had a clutch pedal, I didn't care much for it, it was OK, but it was very easy to confuse the computer, I am now driving an Iveco truck that has a 16sp Auto and no clutch pedal, it's far superior to the eaton auto thats for sure. I can drive it as a semi-auto sequential shift manual, or I can leave it in full auto and let it do it's own thing, bearing in mind that fully loaded my truck weighs in at about 149000 pounds I think it does a stellar job.

I still do miss changing gears sometimes, but I do prefer an auto now

 

Auto's are for lazy people and for drivers who can't figure out how to double clutch, all proffessional truck drivers use a manual gear box.

 

Why do you need to double clutch, I thought all real truck drivers only used the clutch for starting and stopping.

 

I've been driving a newer model International with no sleeper, pulling doubles, (52,500 tare). They don't do hills at all. The 65 gov screws you going up a hill, tranny won't down shift until it hits 1500 RPM EXACTLY, by then it's all over. Downhill was no problem with engine brake.

 

Not all of us are expert spellers like u sir.

BUT for my auto i can say i LOVE MINE.
Its a volvo with a clutch and I've learned to shift it manually also. It's really cool.

 

I know I can't spell or I got poor grammer