Manual Trucks

Not a lot of manuals left. The ones that are left are driven by the old hands who refuse to give them up and keep them in good shape because they know they'll get an auto next.

The last time I got a manual was a 2013 loaner when my auto clutch blew out.

 

We have lots of manuals.

We have manuals on how to pretrip.

We have manuals on how to post trip.

On how to scale, make turns, eat, poop, breath - we have manuals for everything. We even have manuals on how to make make the manual that tells you how to make the manual.

 

When I left I noticed my old truck was for sale 27570, they sold it I guess because it was s 10 speed, I ran coast to coast in it and was in excellent shape, I’d have bought it but it was sold the day before I called,had 293k miles on it dd13

 

I absolutely despise automatics, especially the crappy Macks my company is buying in droves and fazing out the older manuals. I’m driving one of the 3 Internationals we have at our terminal, but they have 600,000+ miles on them and it’s only a matter of time before I’m forced to give up the 71 mph solid manual to drive one of those 66 mph weak piles of crap with all the annoying anti-collision and lane exit software...

 

Beeeeeeeeppp!!!
Sorry just getting you used to annoyances, talk to your terminal manager/boss and stress your disappointment with the new trucks, might not do anything but you can have a sit down with them and sometimes that goes a long way, as long as no one speaks up, nothing changes because they think everyone’s happy

 

I rarely speak to a driver at the OCs I go through that have anything but a manual transmission. Schneider has been trying to get the fleet fully Auto for longer than you've been away from the company.
Love my ten speed. Learned on a thirteen and would have that if I ever bought my own.

 

Not until they have rotated the manual trucks out of the fleet. Can't do that when they're still buying both Auto and Manual trucks each year.
Your recruiter was script reading what Schneider wishes they could do to go green with automatic trucks 100%.
May be happening in certain regions but not as quickly as they want it to. Been saying they'll be 100% by the end if the year every year since 2009.