New employment, training with automatic only company?

great companies do have more auto trucks these days i heard and the trend toward auto trucks is increasing. is not entirely you will be missing out but sometimes companies dont want to not able to hire. so i think you should be ok in my opinion

 

Take the job with McLane; the money is good. More and more companies are switching to automatics, so you're job prospects are great if you decide to change companies later.

 

99% of the time you're in high gear anyway. In traffic you will hate a manual. Conform.

 

A properly tuned and good automatic that knows and works with the engine will cause me to reach for the manual that is not there in the cab when it's time to shift. I actually use that as a check against how it's working. Even though it's a automatic, I pay attention to the shifting and the two RPM's.

Anything else is probably a problem at some point. Maybe I am the problem who knows. I don't mind autos too much provided they do well.

Pace yourself. What you want is time in the job without any drama, wrecking, dying, bleeding and yelling. If your first year, two or three go by and you are thriving, then things are well.

At some point you might want to do something about that manual thing. But don't be in such a bind over that mythical experience thing. Too many newbies chase magic things like career, experience, unicorns etc when they should be focused on being the one driver getting loads done without being noticed by anyone inside the office building.

 

Automatics the new norm.
I'm not marketable. Ughhh!

 

90% of trucks sold are autos. He's worrying about nothing.

 

FedEx, UPS will both hire you when you feel ready to make a move.