Companies that use ONLY Automatics

I have a brand new Volvo 780 with an auto and man is it nice. I've driven manual 10 and 13's speeds and It would be hard to give up my Volvo. We drive team and it take the fatigue out of driving in big cities or even mountain driving. If you get one you will love it.

 

You're truck has a clutch. It may not have a clutch pedal, but it does have a clutch. Automated is probably a better term than auto shift. A true automatic transmission will have a torque converter and will use automatic transmission fluid.

 

MY crap daycab is full auto, I have the following commands for it/
R
N
D
L

 

Most local companies I've noticed are switching to auto. the company i work for 10 years ago was all manual now its all auto. I predict that in 10 or 15 years many otr companies will start switching as well. In 25 years? Who knows, maybe ever crapping training companies will start teaching on them. Shifting is such a pain in the ###, not to mention frusterating when you miss a gear or stall out, confusing when you come to a slow stop and then need to speed up... and just plain exhausting when you're heavy or up and down grades... I think God everyday for the invention of the auto...

 

A auto is annoying when you start skidding. Anyone who has skidded in a manual and then the company sticks you in a auto and you skid knows what I mean.

 

I'm curious if any long time truckers who have always used manual are now in an auto and like it ?

 

only time i ever LIKED my auto was in heavy traffic, EXCEPT Atlanta, it locked out of gear 3 seperate times all in Atlanta rush hour. had to come to a complete stop, put in N, set parking brake, release parking brake, put back in D and it would go. easy way to know when this happens is when you mash fuel it does NOTHING, RPM doesn't even go up. this was in a '12 Prostar+

even in traffic I liked, not loved it, the computer goes through EVERY gear, unless you can get the fuel pedal all the way to the floor in a certian time. it will skip every other gear on the low side, will not skip any on hi side

 

It took me about 40,000 miles to be comfortable with a auto shift. I do manually shift my truck. You have to change your style for the electronics to shift not as fast as a manual. But now after five years in automated shift truck. I would not want to go back to stirring stick.