Companies running automatic transmissions?

Mary: It has been over a year since I posted my last comment here on this thread. I now have my CDL class A license, and I'm no longer searching for companies w. automatic transmissions. The clutch isn't so bad after all, and my school had the stiffest clutch out there.

I have no experience as a truck driver yet, but have done lots of research. Please do some serious research on transam and proceed with caution. Just my opinion.

 

That's good to know..yeah, I don't always look at the dates, especially if I'm on my cell....

TransAm did come to the school, also Werner and May Trucking.
I did apply to May, haven't heard back yet.... I really want to drive a tanker (Nope, not a clue why, I just like them!) but I'll pbly have to start out with dry van. Reefers just dont' appeal to me for some reason...
Thanks
Mary

 

REAL drivers, huh? So those of us like me who prefer the ease of an automatic, what are we, fake drivers? You know, just because someone prefers to drive an automatic does'nt necessarily mean that they don't know how to drive a manual. Some people just simply prefer, for varying reasons having nothing to do with whether they know how to stick or not, to drive automatic trucks. What the hell gives you the right to slam such people or to insinuate that they somehow are not real drivers just because they happen to not like the same things you do? What makes you somehow superior to them? Who the hell died and made you the authority on this matter, and what gives you the right to impose your opinions on others as if yours was the only valid opinion out there? Nobody basically knows who you even are!!!! I started out my career driving nothing but manual trucks, long before there was ever any such thing as an automatic truck, and I have almost a million safe, accident-free and citation-free miles in manuals. I can drive them perfectly fine, no problem at all. Just recently I started driving an automatic truck and found I liked it better. What the hell is wrong with that? People like you make me want to blow chunks!!!!

 

Time to lock this thread down.

 

Gosh it's just like the good old days when 2 nimrods would hurl insults over the cb.

 

why? the one poster is merely viewing his image in the mirror as he posts.I just hope that he doesn't tilt it vertically as everything would fall off. If this were to be over the air,we'd all be laughing.

lighten up there ex driver. those type posts bother not a soul.auto-matic driver driveling is prob laid over somewhere 1000 miles from the yard and can't even idle for comfort or he'd risk losing that .0001 cent bonus-

 

ahh. another voice of experience i see. that is my point. all is just cb talk over the internet. i start up junk routinely over the cb.it is fun especially when the one driver gets to the point where he wants you to pull over. with 32 years in,you too have been guilty of starting things up out of pure boredom over the citizens band transceiver-

 

I did not have a 500 watt linear w/ the echo box hitn the skip. Honest.

 

I now have an auto tranny. There's an art to backing up. And taking off for that matter.
Next time you see a truck starting out from a stop and it appears Bucking Bronco Billy is driving.....
one tiny millimeter too much fuel, or not enuf or not holding the gas pedal perfectly steady will bounce the cab like a total newbie starting out in 2nd gear.
Makes a person feel quite like a total idiot. :0(