Schneider Automatics?

Not trying to be argumentative? Why would you ask someone to prove themselves like I need to answer to you? In your 7 years, is that a long time? You have done and seen it all in seven years, haven't you? I heard something in an orientation class and repeated it but you had to make a big deal about it. Seven years. I only hope I am so sure that I know everything and I can have people in a public forum start proving themselves to me. In seven years I'll be the best! Not argumentative, that is hilarious. I'm going to bed and done with this.

 

You sure are sensitive. I'm starting to suspect that you, in fact, are responsible for making up this ludicrous drivel about "shifting errors being the second leading cause of accidents" in a pathetic attempt to sound smarter than you actually are. I guess "I heard it in class" is the noob version of "I heard it over the CB"? Let me guess, your company issued you an auto for your first truck, you can't operate a manual trans, you're trying to justify your lack of basic driver skills in the name of safety. How close am I?

 

That's funny, "shifting errors" causing accidents.

 

I'd say the only way a shifting error could cause an accident is if you went into reverse instead of 2nd and just dumped the clutch and smashed the accelerator.

 

I can see where shifting errors could cause accidents. I trained for a few years and I had many students who would miss a gear at an intersection, panic, then forget about their trailer while making a turn. I was always saying "watch your trailer" while they try to ram it into gear. Now for more experienced drivers, no that shouldn't happen, but for newer drivers I can definitely see a connection.

 

In orientation in Charlotte right now and they've told us that 90% of all of us will get the new automatics. At the same time, majority of the class that just finished today got 14-15 10 speeds. So just depends.

Edit: some dedicated accounts are required to have an automatic. Couple guys in my class are going with family dollar dedicated and its 100% auto there

 

Shifting errors can and do cause accidents.

Think approaching a right hand turn on a 50 mph road. You're in 10, slow and attempt to get 8; miss and try to recover; catch 8 finally but now you're 100 feet from the turn. Try to slow to 15 mph and get 5th, only slow to 16 mph so you miss 5th and now you're at the turn.

A well trained driver (wouldn't be in this position to start with) would simply stop, get a gear and then make the turn. An inexperienced driver might take the turn out of gear, going to fast, and has been worrying about the gear so forgets to.watch the trailer. Thus his tandems hop the curb, crushing the azaleas planted by the nuns who care for dying orphans. The loss of the flowers removes the will to live from said orphans, who.then.did, causing the driver to be charged with reckless endangerment.

The actual cause of the accident is the driver not watching his trailer and going to fast. He got to that position by not being able to shift.

 

Those drivers that miss gears probably come from broken homes and the CDL school didn't provide
"safe rooms" for the students to retreat to so they wouldn't be traumatized if they heard a difference of opinion.
Did you read the news today about a university in Bloomington, IN where the students went into a state of panic because they claimed to have seen a KKK member with a whip roaming the campus. Mommies little girls and boys were freaking out. What they saw was a church bishop wearing his white robe and the whip turned out to be his rosary beads. This is true; Google it. One student leader said , "Well, better to be safe than sorry."

 

Years ago a trainer drilled into me to not think of yourself as a truck driver, but as a "trailer driver".

Sounds kind of goofy but I have never forgot about the trailer.

Every time we came to a turn he'd start saying it, "Trailer driver... Trailer driver... Trailer driver..."

Still to this day I find myself repeating it in my mind.

 

Makes sense; never thought of it that way.