June 2016 Prime Inc; Approved and ready for orientation

When did they change that? Company trucks are 58 on the pedal and there is no choice.

 

I can't expand to much. All I know is Calex went automatic and had nothing but problems and went back to standard. Plus a girl posted earlier about tranny problems in a 17' T680. Drivers with automatics are probably the one's driving with their feet up. Like that video of the us express driver that went viral.

 

I can drive with my feet up in a manual once I get rolling, and do you know which auto?

 

All I know is they were Volvos. Eaton maybe?

 

I don't think Volvo uses Eaton-Fullers or Allisons.

 

In the 5 company trucks I had, they all were set at 62 cruise, 62 pedal. When I say 58 is driver choice, I mean the driver is choosing to drive that slow.

 

Actually, the d12 transmission in the freightliner has been the most reliable automatic transmission right now in the industry. Freightliner created there own transmission instead of trying to merry someone else's transmission to there engine. They did this because of many of the earlier problems you see with automatics. What they realized was the two systems weren't talking to each other like they were suppose to no matter how hard the engineers tried to fix that problem. The transmission company built one kind that then the truck manufacturers had make fit with there truck instead of the other way around.

By taking it in-house it allowed an entire system from the engine to the gears to the truck computer to be built as one system.

The old way was like trying to get a Mac to talk to a pc to talk to a Linux machine all at the same time.

If I remember correctly, peterbuilt did the same thing.

 

I prefer a standard transmission. It's unfortunate because Prime seemed like a good company.

 

I can see that happening a few years ago, but they really tightened up on company spec since then, sadly.