Companies who may let you practice with a stick?

Just like riding a bike, you will pick it right back up again. Just like my dad told me when teaching me to drive a million years ago on a 5×4. Every time I would grind he would say, don't worry they will make them out of rubber next year. Meaning the gears in the transmission LOL. Honestly, I think it will come back to you if you were proficient at it before. if I was in Knoxville instead of Bristol. And we weren't under a mountain of snow. I have a 13 you could practice on

 

Are you going to change companies?

 

Chinatown might confirm this, and will probably have better info than me. Danny Herman out of Mountain City Tennessee runs almost all Autos I think. I know a few of their drivers, they seem happy. But I don't have any firsthand knowledge. Unless you're looking to get away from driving an auto.

 

Jim Palmer Trucking has 10 speed stick shifts. They run coast to coast.
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MC VanKampen trucks run 75 mph, but not sure if stick shift or not. No Northeast runs.

 

As far as companies being apprehensive. I don't know if I would say much in your initial contact with them or not. If you have a face-to-face with them, maybe you could say something like. You know I learned in a manual, but I haven't driven one for a while. I think most places would understand in this day and age. Hell I've never driven an auto LOL

 

Get the rig out of the yard, and practice on the road,,,

 

Throw it. Fetch. Deliver.

Repeat.