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Message:: [QUOTE="x1Heavy, post: 8026729, member: 178676"]Manual. And no companies don't call Manuals "Bad" They want to stick any soul into a 18 wheeler, have that one push a button "Go" and off they go with zero expense in training etc. Zero damage and greater profitability in fuel mileage among other things. Essentially on one hand having the automatic dumb down the big truck and make them idiot proof. On the other hand they do offer some advantages over manuals. Learn on a manual. That way the STATE does not slap you with a stupid restriction. Anything worth doing in these USA gets a restriction or banned slapped on. It's stupid. The States only have been doing this a limited number of years. Truckers on the other hand coming into the industry, they are by percentage unable to have sufficient critical thinking to manage or learn a manual effectively. Its a sort of a chicken and egg problem. No one spends time and money to train effectively on manual anymore and everyone thinks they can just buy a truck with push button steer wheel holding graduates of CDL school not much good for anything remotely like what truckers used to have to do as captains of the ship decades ago. You will find manuals very good when spec'ed carefully and used correctly by talented professionals that have been on them long enough to do it right in situations in which a auto will probably be a liability.[/QUOTE]