Are "manual transmissions only" types of drivers supertruckers?

Yes but PTDI is not a school that's why I asked which specific school. You can hit 100 taco bell's that are certified by the taco institute, but they ain't all going to be the same. They might have the same standards that they adhere to but they are not going to be the same.

 

Least they don’t drive a Holden

 

Just a note about history. When I was learning to drive in the late 60s the change-over from 2 sticks to single lever transmissions was well under way.
The old timers, guys who'd learned their craft right after WW11 were almost unanimously against 10 speeds and 13 speeds. They called them sissy sticks and the suggestion was made that a man was less than a man if he preferred one.
You guys with your silly wrangling over sticks or automatics are just carrying on an old tradition.
There were more fist fights about it than I see now but that's a good thing. Isn't it?

 

It doesn't?

Crap

 

I don’t know, maybe a few if these nit wits would have some more respect if they got punched a time or two.

 

I'm all in favor of that, especially since it won't be happening on here. When I was learning to drive I was around loggers all the time. They tended to settle arguments directly and with no hard feelings afterwards. Okay, there might have been hard feelings but the loser knew enough to keep his mouth shut about them.
Toxic masculinity? Hostile work environment? Those are words for people to use when they're scared to fight.
It's too bad that we can't go back to those days when throwing hands was an accepted method of handling differences.

Caveat....Nobody ever got smarter when you hit them but they would at least listen to what you had to say and give it some thought.

 

Sorry, but it’ll still make you an urban legend.

 

There's a lot of room for discussion. Discussion isn't bad, it's how we grow.

The problem with 'toxic masculinity' is that it excludes discussion.

I love my Dad, he did the best he could and considering his own upbringing he did better than any one can reasonably expect in raising a family. I learned at an early age that questioning the "pater famillis" was a bad idea - especially when he was wrong. When I was 9 my dad was driving to drop me at an AYSO game and then take my sister (5 years older) to something. My sister asked where we were going because he wasn't driving to the park where the game was going to be. My dad got mad and she shut the #### up. He was even madder when we got to the park and there were no soccer fields set up and we had to drive home so he could ask my mom where he was supposed to take me. It's a minuscule example, but one that has impacted my life in ways both big and small.

I spent the last two years running a dedicated account. When my trainees were male, very rarely would other account drivers make an attempt to interact with the trainee. When they were female, different story. When it was an attractive female, other drivers swarmed like moths to a flame. The personal experience has confirmed what empirical studies have shown. When gender and race are scrubbed from an application, interview selection pools and ultimate hiring decisions are changed.

If a man's wife could earn more than he could, and he insists she stay home while he "brings home the bacon", he's being toxic. If he teaches his sons different things than his daughters, he's being toxic. Any woman with 'normal' vision will make a better combat soldier than I would because I need my glasses to find my glasses. Even more so if we're talking fighter pilot or submarine service because my 6'2" frame is a definite disadvantage in both environments.

There are plenty of women who function (or would function) as a better head of household than the man. That doesn't make the male less of a 'man'. Objectively, back in the day when a driver left out of the house for 30 day tour he left his wife in charge or everything - the kids, the money, and the dog.



Over time that changed to



Toxic masculinity is expecting others (particularly women and children) to defer to you because you are "the man".