Offered a great paying job close to home, but manual trucks only.

Is now a good time to tell him that there are three powerbands and not one?

 

and I thought my left flip flop went on the dash !!!

 

I wish you luck- you’ve got yourself in quite an interesting situation here. Offering advice and tips at this point will only confuse you more.

If you’re trying to figure it out by YouTube maybe just pick one person and stick with their advice. You might be able to avoid paralysis by analysis that way.

This is definitely not ideal, but I guess it’s possible. All I know is I couldn’t move the truck the 1st time I atttempted it- and that was with someone next to me instructing me. I couldn’t imagine trying to figure it out in a tight yard, with a fully loaded trailer and probably total darkness. Oh, and making sure no one noticed you never even attempted it before.

What could go wrong?!

 

who knows..??

only the Shadow knows.....

 

All this bashing and like three guys helped. Try to call around to some CDL schools and see if they have any manual shifting refresher courses. There's a school in Atlanta that charges $150 a day for it. Get to drive 8 hours with a trainer. No classroom, testing, nor all that BS. I drove around with a permit license.

If that's not possible and there's no road course, take the help up top, hop on YouTube to get the truck off the yard, and learn on the road. Its not as hard as everyone is making it out to be.

 

actually the bashing may be self serving to him. in who's right darned mind do they train ONLY on automatics and have the mitigating gall to think that they will NEVER EVER get another job someday where there are NO automatics.>??

to have had training on sticks THEN get an automatic job is one thing, cuz then that person can just "brush up on shifting skills", rather than to NEED TO BE TRAINED all over again.

frankly from my point of view, i feel no sympathy for him.

to limit one's training from the very beginning is a recipe for disaster later.

which he is going thru right now.

it's the "i wanna drive a truck syndrome, but i don't wanna really do a whole lot of thinking to do it"..

 

And he flat out lied digging his own grave

 

Couldn't have said it better

 

I believe Maverick's trucking school is done with automatics since that's all they drive. At my job we currently only drive automatics & I have no plans on leaving. Not saying I did or did not learn on a manual, but not everyone in trucking has a need for it. That's why he/she or someone else may not learn it. Have also seen a trucking school in past that lowers the tuition if there was no manual training involved.

With that said, I know how to drive a manual in case that 100k job pops up and hope he/she is able to learn quickly. I don't think he/she said they lied to the company either.

 

I did not mean to come on here and bash the OP. But I see this all the time, guys come walking into our gates wanting to apply cause they heard we “have” Union wages and “have” all the dirt work around these parts. But what we “have” isn’t a gimme. The guys In our trucks have been around the block a time two. Or the new guys show thy they can keep up with the ones walking the walk. To restrict yourself when you got your license from the get go showed where you wanted to take your career. This industry is changing. But manual will always be here to stay. Automatic has no place in dirt work.

We do have automatics for the heavy haul trucks. But those guys aren’t in those trucks cause they aren’t “restricted”. They earned there place here to have the comfort of a big ### Cummins and autotragic.

Someone asked if my boys will drive truck? I got 2 twin 6yr olds. They probably know there walk around better than most mega carrier alumni. They’ll learn the way I did.... you got know how it was done with 2 sticks and 2 speed rear ends. Hell ive had my license when it had class numbers, not letters