manual or automatic transmission??

Here comes wwlll

 

I used to drive a water truck for the oilfield. I had an 18 but some of the other guys had automatics and they hated them. They "over" shift up and down. I never had much surging but our tanks were baffled. Not sure if your food grade or not.

 

I drove both auto and manual pulling liquid tankers 48 states and I'll take the automatic any time.

 

I'm old fashioned so prefer manual but that's just me.

 

Given that the "automatic" is actually a manual with the computer "floating" the gears, the difference is in how smoothly you can shift.

 

Pretty quick on judgement if you have only been driving a manual for 2 days, just like the guys that hate automatics after only driving for 1-2 days. Give it some more time, you will get better at it.

Even doctors practice for years before they can go out on their own and they only kill one person at a time. (Some will say that doctors practice their whole career)

 

MsJamie,the floating part is not accurate.
Some auto's use clutch everytime.

 

On an ultrashift it is actually true. the clutch disengages only below 850 rpm. all of your shifts will occur above that rpm level so, shifts are done with the clutch engaged.