Texas and Automatic Truck restrictions

Interesting but if your company has mostly automatics then I guess it shouldn't be a problem

 

Yep September is the deadline to make decisions on Map 21. Gonna be a lot of changes over a three year implementation period.

 

Well I'm training in a manus but the company will have autos soon if I get my own truck I will get a manual if it's cheaper

 

Drivers tend to bounce around jobs. Maybe ur dream job has 13 or 18 speeds. I agree something as stupid as an automatic restriction should be avioded. If u ever wanted to drive a manual u would have to retest.

 

Automatic restriction? Seriously?

Go back into my threads and read about Manuals and why you should learn to use one (Or even specifcally ask for one). To increase your value to the company. You might even like it.

Automatic for me was a good thing in some cases and cost quite a bit of money in busted load appointments and tows costing hundreds of dollars an hour because the ones we had in a 24/7 truck could not dump it's software buffer while running and then brick.

An automatic restriction on a license will hurt the Industry nationwide and generate terrible teasing and joking about how real truckers use a manual while the dummies get to push a button. We don't need that.

 

I think in 10 years 90% of the industry will be automatic you may have some trucks that will be electric trucks...