Tanker Companies That Use Automatics?

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  1. glenn71

    glenn71 Medium Load Member

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    Service Transport has Mack autos, IIRC.
     
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  3. xbmann

    xbmann Light Load Member

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    Oakley transport is going auto as the older trucks are phased out, Indian River has some autos
     
  4. I'm not a robot

    I'm not a robot Light Load Member

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    CTL is all M-drive auto Macks
     
  5. RevKev

    RevKev Medium Load Member

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    Tidewater Transit.
     
  6. Air Cooled

    Air Cooled Road Train Member

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    Fuel delivery services, williams tank lines, and my company. they are great in traffic and are simple to drive. I personally like to shift gears and when I hauled asphalt oil in an auto I didn't care for it much. When I needed to climb it could be unresponsive and WAY too many jerky up and downshifts- not good when your pulling liquid. I've never noticed slosh as much as I have in an auto. In a manual you can time it and make the surge work with you. That auto made that liquid slam around because it'll just shift on ya.
     
  7. crazeydude

    crazeydude Light Load Member

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    Prime has auto's? Since when? Company or lease drivers, all divisions have them?
     
  8. CasanovaCruiser

    CasanovaCruiser Road Train Member

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    From my understanding new company trucks are coming in with them or you can lease and pick one
     
  9. crazeydude

    crazeydude Light Load Member

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    Ok thanks! Just got the call today from recruiter, set up for orientation 10/3! Going to Pittston PA, dedicated Tanker division out of Newark NJ. Supposed to be weekly home time!
     
  10. CasanovaCruiser

    CasanovaCruiser Road Train Member

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    Are they pushing you into a lightweight for that account?
    They had a dedicated account near me that I talked to them about for a bit out of Decatur but in order to be on it you had to lease a lightweight.
    I haven't heard much bad about Prime's tanker division, but I have heard a lot of bad about Newark, NJ in general lol
     
    crazeydude Thanks this.
  11. crazeydude

    crazeydude Light Load Member

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    I'll ask my recruiter next couple a days. I had one my last OTR gig, drove down to Florida and back once a week! It wasn't bad. I was home for 2 1/2 days a week though. That was back in 2011 for 2 months. I got laid off and been doing local peddle routes on Long Island for the last 5 years! Starting to really hate lumping my own freight every day, especially lift gate residential deliveries!
     
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