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LTL Companies with automatics

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Mark_2wain, Aug 9, 2017.

  1. Aug 9, 2017 #1
    Mark_2wain

    Mark_2wain Light Load Member

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    Hi there drivers,

    With your help, I'd like to put together a list of LTL companies that primarily use trucks with automatic transmissions.

    So far the list goes like this:
    Averitt

    LOL


    That's honestly all I've been able to turn up so far. Are there any others out there?
     
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  3. Aug 9, 2017 #2
    Bob Dobalina

    Bob Dobalina Road Train Member

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    Dayton Freight. But they drive test prospective drivers on older 10 speeds. If you can't shift, you don't get hired.
     
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  4. Aug 9, 2017 #3
    geargrinder90

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    Pascal truck lines, if I remember right they have made the total switch now
     
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  5. Aug 9, 2017 #4
    MACK E-6

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    Had a few drivers with R+L tell me all their new Peterbilts will be automatics.
     
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  7. Aug 9, 2017 #5
    shogun

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    Truck and trailer already hooked up, fueled up, essentially passed a pre trip by a line mechanic. What's next, the mechanic sitting with the truck in Drive, holding his foot on the brake while the driver loads his stuff? If I had known that trucks were going to turn into idiot proof plastic pieces of crap, I would have never built ERTL Kenworth models, opened my bedroom window as a kid smelling that Big Cam 3 burning diesel in the driveway, and ignored all my teachers while drawing tractor trailers.
     
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  8. Aug 13, 2017 #6
    JC0804

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    ABF started changing over in 2015, all their newer road units are automatics and the older 10 speeds have cycled down to local city units.
     
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  9. Aug 13, 2017 #7
    Texas_hwy_287

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    Here are the following companies who have auto transmission, Averitt, aaa Cooper, saia, southeastern, R&L. Those are the carriers I know have auto and manual but mostly every carrier would be shifting from manual to auto.
     
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  10. Aug 13, 2017 #8
    Bob Dobalina

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    I believe FedEx Freight has a bunch as well.
     
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