Maunal or Automatic Transmission??

You're getting ready to buy a truck and train the wife, but you want us to make a list of transmission type pros & cons?.... I've never been into doing other people's homework, man.

 

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Automated Manual.

 

For what? A thread with no content, no questions, no polls nothing at all. In short no effort, thought or composition is put into this... this.. empty box.

It might have suited you better to fill in a word transmission into a empty box provided for you on TTR in the top corner search box. That box is capable of pulling everything on TTR and then some. You don't even need to make a thread.

You test with the state DMV for a CDL in a manual truck always. You will enjoy a auto done correctly. especially one that is specifically tuned to the engine to where you are as a driver reaching to make shift when it goes through one at the correct time up or down. Took me weeks to stop that. The other part of automatic it needs a manual mode paddle on your steering column (*Not buttons...) so that in certain situations you will do very well with it in total control of the rig doing exactly what you will.

When your truck is equipped with radar tied to your brakes, you are in great danger because in certain specific situations that rig will slam on the brakes, all of them. If that happened on ice or in rain in a very inappropriate spot somewhere someone is fixing to get hurt bad or killed. Not to mention idiot car drivers who are aware of how your radar works with your automatic and your engine can play with you like a toy by bouncing into and out of your front at a certain distance.

Technology is nice. But as recent cases of crashes into people, firetrucks, police cars even and others show that technology in a vehicle is not a good fit.

The best technology is what God gave you between your ears. That's all you will ever need in life on the road as a trucker. I hope that you learn well because in really bad days you are going to have to write your own solution to a really bad problem and hope that there is no damage, no injury or killing.

If you really want to get my buttons pushed, look at the American F22 warplane. It has a computer inside of it strictly designed to deny any pilot who desires to abuse that plane in combat. For example if it is fat and heavy with fuel tanks and ordanance needed for a target in a furball with a opponet jet, the computer will refuse the pilot's input that will impose too much of a G loading on the frame.

It's that kind of stupid thinking from people who do not understand if that jet does not turn hard right now into the enemy because it's being abused and a computer is there to prevent it... you just signed the death warrant of the pilot.

What does this have to do with trucking? Well.. consider this.

A automatic likes to upshift wherever it gets the chance to. Here you are clumping along in a little bit of a dakota ice storm and your drives are sticking just enough not to spin out in one gear. As soon as the stupid automatic changes gears because there is no manual mode on purpose those drives are going to break loose and off the whole interstate you go. It's not your fault some dweeb inside your company thinks they can order a transmission with so much computer software choices to make to the point that you the driver have nothing to work with. You are in a cage with no options with such a crappy truck.

That is why I will die with a manual in my hand. Because you can do certain things in battle with a finesse not possible in computer crap. Especially when a office drone who has never touched a semi in his or her life gets to work it's computer to make sure every option has a "NO" selected so you the driver have nothing to do, nothing to work with and no choices other than to quit and find a company that knows how to purchase and spec a proper auto or manual truck.

These empty boxes called threads written with nothing in them beg to be filled. I am that person who is able to fill it with all sorts of things. When you have a question be more specific, put some effort into actually writing it out properly in your first post. That way people who know then what answers to tell you specifically.

This is my gift to you with my post here. Give you some things to consider.

But the next time I see people too lazy to write out a proper forum post or thread in particular will earn a two word post from me. "Google it." Such a post will gain alot of attention because I don't do short answers. And neither should you try and say something with no words at all or the barest minimum possible that does not make any sense.

 

I'll give him points for his brevity ...

 

In manual mode on the automated manual, do you actually have to move the shifter or is it just click a button like a new ford?

 

Spec out a two stick. One can be a 13 speed, the other stick can be an automatic shifter. Problem solved.

 

Why not both?

 

With a DT12 behind a 13 that will give me 12 gears of Overdrive. A truck so fast it won't even have time to get dirty!