Driving an automatic on icy roads and taking off on hills?

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  1. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Aand stabbing at the clutch pedal quickly & straining your knee.
     
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  3. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Yes you have a manual switch, but it might be disabled. It's the M symbol & A symbol looking icon on the end of the stalk. It's the top half of the end of the stalk. You can press it toward center of steering wheel. I forget if you quick press or press and hold. One of those motions cause the tranny to enter manual.& auto mode. If the switch is disabled in the ECM nothin will happen when you use that switch & only a shop with electronic access to ECM can change it.
     
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  4. OldeSkool

    OldeSkool Road Train Member

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    Thanks all you guys for the help. Yes I do have manual mode. Been using it all day now that I figured it out. Like it much better. Thanks a lot.
     
  5. SomeCanadian

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    220,000lbs 13 axle. Automated manual. Only had to tell it to start in first instead of third. Took a couple days to not reach for the shifter leaving a corner. Disliked that it would grab a gear going uphill and slow down, otherwise it was nice.
     

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  6. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    automatics suck in tankers going up hill. The surge and the eager to upshift auto will drag your speed down on a hill terribly while a manual would lose half the speed as the auto. There is a trick one can use in the auto going up a hill to prevent that, but it's a million words to write.
     
  7. drvrtech77

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    Push the button on the side of shifter in and hold it and if it’s enabled it will go into manual mode
     
  8. LTL Bull

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    I had one in a milk tanker that decided to downshift 11 to 9 on a posted 55 mph two lane with a small S curve that was marked 45 mph but you could do at 50. Been through it dozens of times, in a manual I’d just let off the throttle a little before and cruise right through it about 48 or 50. Wet roads included. I had a substitute tractor with the auto shift as regular one was in shop. Never thought twice, just started to rain lightly, let off throttle, drifting down towards 48 mph 1/2 way through first part of curve and WHAM! That goofy computer dropped 11th to 9th and I though that was it. Back end of tractor skidded just a bit but not enough to wreck me. Prime example of when man is smarter than machine
     
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  9. Long FLD

    Long FLD Road Train Member

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    This post is obviously a lie. The Internet says automated manuals don’t work unless the roads are flat and dry.

    I have the 12 speed version of the same transmission. 334k miles on it so far with zero complaints. I’ve ran it all over in all weather conditions and I’m still alive to talk about it.
     
  10. Long FLD

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    Why didn’t you hold it in gear so it wouldn’t downshift?
     
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  11. LTL Bull

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    They’re a solution looking for a problem. They found the problem in all the CDL mills churning out unqualified sheeple that can barely muster together the intelligence and motor skills to wipe their noses and behinds. They work, but not well in my experience
     
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