Company removing manual gear selection override on automatic trucks?

Everybody wants to be a YouTube super trucker.

 

Just another piece of #### for us to eat.
In my 579,Im forced to use low mode, prevents upshifts, and downshifts at earliest opportunity.
Pretty much lets you stay in 8Th gear coming down grades.
If you need to down shift another gear, slow to about 35 and you will get 7th.
Stupid ####.

 

I posted up a thread about a year ago my reviews of the auto transmission, my advice at that time and still is, new drivers should be running manuals for at least a year before being cut loose on autos.

 

If it's the Lethbridge company I'm thinking of .. they chased away half their best owner ops and looks like they are doing the same to company drivers .. got to love new ownership

 

Then my advice would apply times 10 because how is a new driver even going to know what went wrong when they are careening down the road sideways.

 

If the Jake brakes go out, going downhill. I don't see how a manual transmission will help you. You use your brakes to hold the truck back. In the snow you don't want to use Jake brakes going down hill.

I just got autoshift couple months ago and the auto Jake's and auto downshift does take getting used to but it very strong hat holding truck back at 2300 RPMs.

In bad weather or winter you turn the Jake brakes off like your suppose to including the cruise control and it just like any truck going downhill. You use your brakes and go slower. When roads are dry you can let the autoshift and auto Jake's do it's thing.

 

These guys living in the red cascadia.....5 years and they wonder why they are not happy with their truck. After five years of teaming, they could've bought a new truck and make twice the money month hauling refrigerated coast to coast.