Train in a manual

Agreed with you...it's always better to have it and dont need it...than need it and don't have it!

 

Absolutely get tested in a manual so you have no restriction that could cost you an opportunity. I’ll take a manual over an automatic any day. My company is fazing them out and I’m trying to hold onto mine as long as possible. Only time it’s nice to have an automatic is in heavy, stop and go traffic.

 

100 percent agree.

 

Get tested in a manual.

SOME PEOPLE have stress levels against learning manuals. Nothing could be easier. RPM contains two numbers. One you shift up at. Another you down shift at. The transmission IS DESIGNED to ACCEPT your shifting at those two RPM's without scratching or missing a gear.

Sometimes students struggling with beating on a manual want to give up because they don't understand how easy it is. Or have adequate teachers to show them. Hell, I taught my wife how to put up with a manual. And sometimes woke up out of my sleeper rest to get up and fix it for her in the jammies after she scratches the thing on I-40 as the speed decreases. (She had limitations.) from time to time.

I'll die with a manual in my hand. A good strong manual with 13 or more gears in underdrive, I can move the earth. (And will....) or do things that will cause a automatic truck to slide.

I have had autos in the past, the ones with a manual paddle options for mountain or ice work. It could not be a better transmission in some ways believe it or not. (It found a gear through a tractor jackknife on ice and was able to apply power to drive wheels when we came out of that jackknife west of Knoxville on mountain ice. IF I had to get the spouse settled down with a stalled manual engine, it would have been too much.

The idea that the stupid states apply a restriction against manuals for those who only test in Autos is a display of unnecessary over regulating of our lives. Some numb nut in the office decided that it's cool to apply a blanket restriction and all the other states then followed like Lemmings over the cliff.

That's one reason this Nation is going to hell in a hand basket. But I digress. This conversation is taking place in many of our cities against riot police.

 

ew.

I have trouble with people like that.

I tell you what. You must have awesome instructors with some horse sense in them if they can get him to drive worth a #### with a big truck. I share a secret. My instructors knew I was scared of mountains. They broke that right quick even though I did not tell them I was afraid. It showed anyway. What they did was more than break it. They turned it into something of a monster on my part to have to get up on a mountain with a big truck. Totally opposite where I was before.