Future thrends = Automatics?

All that autoshift (auto with clutch) is doin is floating gears for you.If you can't figure out how to float gears which is easier than learning the HOS or backing you have no business in a truck and shouldn't be driving even with an autoshift.That's just my opinion and I know not everybody floats gears but not everybody double clutches.I have crappy knees and I,thank God,learned to float gears.

 

Price will be the deciding factor is this whole process..
As automatic transmissions get cheaper company will probably buy more and more of them.
I have driven both and I like the hand on approach of a Manual Transmission
(Makes me feel more like a trucker!)
But if the profit gain is higher, were just drivers who the hell cares what we think....
Cause I don't think any of the company's do

 

I know this does not have anything to do with your question but you could all ways go back to late night radio!Love the name bro! Play some Weird Al!

 

I agree. I learned to drive when I was around 12 years old, on a '52 GMC pick up, foot start pedal, steering wheel about 2' across with a 1/2 turn to change lanes,3 on the tree. Took my driver test on it to and parallel parked it. 55 years old now and have taught my wife to drive a standard shift and feel like I can drive anything. Going to CDL school in April and expect to learn a manual shift, after that whatever trannie they give me is fine. But you gotta learn a shift trannie,my son is 12 and I am looking for a manual to teach him on. Hell while he is riding this summer with me maybe I can teach him a 10 speed.

 

Thank you so much! I have started to think that some how people think your left foot is a GOD! Come on,it's a control thing not a shifting thing.You can be the best shifter in the world and still put one in the ditch. I bet every one out there had to learn how to drive a manual shift. Anyone want to try and tell me they were born a Master Shifter? Its like being a Baiter you gotta practice to be a Master at it! After a few years of constant practice you become a Master Baiter ! Lighten up and let all of them practice

 

never thouhgt a big truck would have an automatic???driven one and dont like it would suck in the mountains ,feels like i have no control over my speed, very unconforable with it!!mabey cause i grew up learning the hard way ,lol the old man taught me since the age of 13 lol i was driveing a semi befor i drove a car??????

 

Dang. Your only 26 and you have bad knees that sux. Im a hybrid some times i double clutch and sometimes i float. Having got stuck in an autoshift for a month while my truck was broke i must say that it was nice in clogged city streets beings how it was full auto( no clutch pedal ) However driving can be boring at times and at least shifting gives you something to do. Ill take my Eaton 13sp over autoshift anyday.

 

I am in school. I picked shifting up very quickly. I double clutch sometimes and float other times. At first I watched the tach but as I gain experience I use the sound of the engine more and more.

However!! There are some (more rather than less) students who, I swear, have stock in Eaton. I don't know what the gears in a transmission are made of but I want to protect myself with it when armegedon comes! I believe to be good at shifting you need a mental picture of what is happening from the engine to the drive shaft. Some of these students don't have pictures. I am convinced some of them don't have mentals either!!! Weeks go by and they don't get any better. Some can't upshift and down shifting is out of the question. We have gorgeous tractors. Both are 379s one with a 10 and one with a 13. When I hear grind clunk as the gear engages on the edge o a tooth an the tractor leaps forward, tears come to my eyes!!!

May we have a moment of silence for those gears that have senselessly given their life for the sake of creating a driver from the undereducated.

 

LOL i was a trainer for a year and a half and i would almost be in tears sometimes listening to them smash up my tranny. I had a 13 speed and wouldnt let them split the gears until they were proficient and shifting.

 

Reading through the posts and it seems that most trucks don't have brownies anymore? Stuck out here in the boonies and seems I got some catching up to do!