Why Not Automatic?!

I drove an automatic to take my driving test .... I would drive one if asked as getting another gear all the time is additional work but I just do not like the way they shift unless one is at 80-% of load and have not driven enough to really know how all of them do in operations but if I were to buy a truck I would look for an Eaton-Fuller manual as having exact control over what gear one is in provides safety that automatics cannot attain

first time an auto breaks traction you will serve the true master thence forever more .... manuals....

 

I plan on getting auto shift in my next truck. I bet in 5 years they will be standard equipment. This is just the switch over time and guy think it makes them special to shift gears. I bet they said the same about power steering.

 

I think automatics are safer in general just because it allows a driver to pay more attention to driving but I have more fun upshifting and downshifting.

 

Because it's not a car.
If shifting is too much for you, you're in there wrong field.
Automatics Standard? In 5years... Guess we will see.

 

Because, in general, they are unreliable. US Xpress, a company that has run autos for over a decade, has switched to manuals over the last two years. They have greatly improved over the first one I drove in 2000, a 10 speed Eaton Fuller in a W9, but they are still not there. Supposedly Volvo's I shift is the most reliable auto today, but the rest of the Volvo truck and dealer network is questionable. It seems like you're kind of whining about learning a skill. There isn't many successful places for whiners in this industry, either do the job or go home and do something else like 90% of the students in your class will do in the next year or so. Good luck.

 

If the examiner knows this, wondering why he's an examiner.
Only time will tell but I don't see it happening.