Bad news for manual lovers

Probably will have it jus recycled.hahahaha

 

The today's truck drivers just do not like real trucks. And use any & every excuse to put them down.

When you start spoiling people, they get lazy.

I feel for them for they messed out on the good days of trucking.

 

old has been,the death off the "trucking brotherhood" has very little to do with automatic gearboxes.
I too wish we were still the "knights off the road" but we have lost that in part off the actions off truckers,other part is a changed socieity.
So many best we leave this alone in this thread.

 

@ Tommytoomanybikes:
An I shift is NOT a automated manual.There is no way to convert a I shift to a stick.
You assume too much and know to little.

@ all those manual lovers
It appears you all confuse driving skills with shifting skills.
They are NOT the same!!!
The first you need whether you drive a car/truck/bike or even a pushbike.
Without that skill you have no bussiness on the roads.

The latter only makes a tough job easier and yes,safer.


Be safe.

 

Air ride all the way isn't entirely comfortable at first encounters. When you're accustomed to 46k+ axles with a spring ride steer, the first time driving an all-around air ride truck can be pretty #### scary.

Oh, yeah... heavy and brush specs... since the term "real truck" keeps coming up, should I throw those into the mix, as well?

 

I see it this way , if you do not learn to drive a stick at first what happens WHEN someone hands you the keys to one?

 

It kinda seems like they're scared of an auto.

 

And, on that point, I agree wholeheartedly. At the same time, someone's getting into this industry, they're supposed to be an adult, they're supposed to be responsible for their own decisions, and they're expected to have (and expecting to have) enough rope to hang themselves with. Basically, it's their problem, they can deal with it on their own. And if somebody is foolhardy enough to just hand the keys to a manual truck to someone with no experience in a manual truck... well, someone owns trucks in this industry, they're given enough rope to hang themselves with, and if they're so impulsive in their hiring process, that's exactly what they'll end up doing with it. There has to come a point where you just accept that it's their problem to deal with if it becomes an issue for them, and that the responsibility for getting out of that situation is as much theirs as getting into it was.
And no, I don't like the idea of green drivers running autos exclusively, but, in the grand scheme of things, it's really not my problem; the things I mentioned before - whether they can back up without tearing my hood off, whether they'll sideswipe me as I pass them, etc. - those are my problem, and those are the things which take a much higher priority over worrying about how their truck is shifted.

 

Yea I'm scared. Of being lazy and lame

 

Well, on the "lame" note, I'm afraid I have unfortunate news for you after that statement of yours.

As for lazy, that's one of things I wanted to believe, as well, but the problem is that I'm just not seeing anything to help me believe it. I see double wide drivers, I see these ############# who tie up fuel lanes by parking in them, I see these funkmaster truck drivers you remember not for their face, but for their odor, I see drivers throwing trash/piss bottles/#### bags/etc. in parking lots.... driving a manual doesn't keep them from doing this. Those things I just listed to me seem to be the result of laziness, and yet, shifting gears doesn't prevent it from happening.