why you do not want a automatic.

You will NEVER out perform an auto tranny. It's brain thinks 10,000 times quicker then you'll ever be able to.

It will shift between two to three years without you knowing keeping it in optimal rpm range while optimizing fuel.
You obviously have not driven one.

 

Love love love our auto. I'm secure in my manhood to say hope to never drive a stick ever again.

 

Really? Could you provide a link to this vast array of information,or are you talking ####?

 

I don't need a link. I've been in the trucking world probably longer then you're been out of diapers. I understand computer control is a "magical thing" to (put it in words you'll understand) but shifting is not about processing information 30k times each second. What transmission shifts that frequently? It's about having the ability to see into the future, and a chip on an auto transmission and engine does not do that.

But, with your logic, trucks with computers should be able to out-perform any human driver ability to process and problem-solve? And I suspect, if your brain is what technology is competing with, you may be right.

 

That would make you pretty old, I'm pretty sure my 35+ years (now retired) trumps whatever experience you have, but I'll probably be back in diapers before you catch up.

 

My guys who drive Auto's now - I can't get them out of them if I tried. Its mostly our older guys, but they love them...

 

Checkmate

 

ACTUALLY, the latest generation of ATM's can "SEE" the hill miles before you even get there and can apply power early and cut it back at the precise moment you level off, they are now using GPS mapping technology for terrain.

 

I for one welcome our computer overlords

 

I can see both sides, because I have actually had YEARS of experience with both, not just a test drive here or there.

Here is the thing, do I feel more of a "part" of the truck when shifting myself? Probably so. Are there situations that a driver (an experienced driver) is more adept at handling than a computer? Probably so.

But these are not every day, every mile, every minute, situations, they come and go once in a while, on the other hand, the other 99.9 percent of the time, that ATM is NEVER missing a gear, NEVER grinding a gear, NEVER shocking a driveline, NEVER engaging a Clutch Brake, and the list goes on.

If the discussion is centered on fuel mileage, then the ATM will always have the upper hand, because fuel mileage is not made or lost on one hill or one spurt of city driving, it is accumulated over a full period of time from when you start the motor until you stop the motor, for all of the shifting in between, esp, with the newer emission motors and there lower power band, I just don't see an individual being able to match it, at least NOT OVER THE LIFE OF THE TRUCK.