Why do alot of people dislike auto trucks please explain

your scenario is not even a parallel to the topic. off road/mining is completely different than on highway driving. let's be realistic shall we?

 

exactly my point....we all float....But , there will be times in a drivers career that double clutching will save his power train , and by having the ability to double clutch , or if he doesn't he'll be stuck broken down and scratching his behind , saying I sure wished I would've listened to them OLD FART's.........There isn't really a right or wrong here....but a need to have a common sense attitude / approach to having and being proficient in all of the skills necessary to drive and shift a manual transmission.

 

This cat has his own theory about trucking x#1......we're all wrong and he's the only enlightened one....even has his own thread about driver-less trucks , and how humans are on they're way out.....

 

Mack m-Drive downshifts like it's clearing its throat. Ah-hem... ah-hem. Like it.

 

i am thinking that,unfortunately,he/she/it exemplifies the new breed. i can't help but wonder how i was at that experience level. i truly don't think that i knew everything although not going to a driving school most likely did give me more of a school of hard knocks education regarding wherever i was at wildhoses present experience level.

that came across as condescending intentionally.

 

Yep. And they WERE RIGHT, too. . .

And then came the KUMPUTER! World will never be the same! (Thank God!)

 

And you`ll be flipping burgers. And you will never make over $8.00 hr.

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;4443800]Hi Tator Tot, actually, there's a reason trucks still use non-synchromesh transmissions. It drastically saves wear on the clutch. If you had a synchromesh trans, like on a car, you'd select a gear that was probably not the right one, and fry the clutch in a week. As far as double clutch, I never did that. I used the clutch twice, when stopped and starting out.[/QUOTE]In 41 years driving, never burnt a clutch. Just lucky.

 

Yup...thanks to the computer, we now have kids who don't see why they need to learn how to add & subtract because their calculator can tell them the answer...cashiers who don't know how to make change because the register tells them how much to give back...and now a whole slew of truck drivers who don't have the slightest clue how to keep a log book or work the HOS because they have a computer telling them when they can drive, for how long, when they need to stop, and how long 'til they can roll again. NOBODY has to know how to do anything for themselves anymore because they are content letting a computer run their lives for them.

Progress...

 

The mechanism that you refer to already exits and is called a Professional Truck Driver.