manual or automatic transmission??

In 50 years, millions of Roadranger manuals have been made with millions of miles on them. The Detroit 12 about a year with how many miles? They will take anything you throw at them? How about 81,000lbs; they are only rated at 80K?

Don't you love how a slick advertising campaign can get to some people?

 

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Tell that to trimac most if not all their company trucks are automatics and the older freightliners only had ultra shifts until I think 2014 when the dt12 transmission came out.

 

My automatic in my ram pick up truck has tip Tronic so I can control the gearshifting if need be from the steering wheel. It's 2017 and I would think technology is available to have the computer do all that clutching for you yet when you need to take control you should be able to do it from a button just like every other truck and car out there. The idea of having to double clutch through a bunch of gears to me sounds archaic and if there's a viable automatic option available I would certainly prefer to drive that. Also drive a manual no problem if that's not available.

 

I prefer manual, if you not hot rodding it's smoother then an auto.

 

I'm sure they have made progress with Auto's on the last year and a half

 

Manual as a tanker. Always.

Driving a tanker is a higher form of expression of your professional proven skills in liquid management. =) Isnt that nice.

Do it with a manual. You can literally float just so from one gear to the next as the liquid moves in that tanker just so and finesse the power before applying it at the right moment to get going. Or stop. It's not work.

If you are griping about the bouncing and surging and it hurts... haul something else. Don't abuse yourself sir.

Or better yet if tanker work pays well, try to use a manual and apply the power as the liquid is piled up in the far back of the trailer. And ease up on the power as it moves to the front so it does not slam. Maybe a touch of air brake a moment or two settle things down nicely.

Tanking is a whole lot of fun, I spent years doing it. Addicted it. My last tanker haul was a 12 yard cement ready mix truck filled to the chute with fluid and a hundred dollar bet that I don't splash it to the job site across my town. (No hills and one railroad crossing) I won that bet. Kept the drum going. =) That mack was a POS with that short legged tranny trying to be a tanker. It's far better against a 45 degree stone slope.

 

I must have been doing something wrong then.
Been driving single bore tanks since 06 with a automated gearbox.

 

Nothing wrong sir. I never had a auto more than that 10 month spread in one truck. Hopped into it reached for the manual. shop crew laughed and rolled on the floor as I sat there like really surprisesd where is the #### stick who took that stick yelling and all. (That was fun... I had no idea)

Even today Im not sure I want a tanker with a auto... I respect anyone who can do it. You are better than I am...

 

Give my ### gears. Will not drive an auto. A truck with an auto just isn't a truck. It's a joke.

 

You need a good auto,that is a fact.
Secondly,those skills you use with your manual are the same skills you need with a auto.
You just apply them a little different.