Are automatics the problem? | Sunday Rant | Trucking Answers
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- Опубликовано: 30 дек 2023
- The Sunday Rant deals with a recent article where truck drivers claim the reason drivers today can't drive is because of mostly automatic trucks. Is that really the problem? Do automatic trucks make people unsafe truck drivers? I don't think so. The truck is not the reason a driver does things that are unsafe. We hear this all the time from older drivers. Trucking companies take no time training and spend little time pattung drivers on the back. They are right there to blame drivers or punish drivers. Do more carrot and less stick. Drivers should want to drive to be a good driver.
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After driving a manual for years a auto made me lazy😂
I’ve drove all kinds of manual transmission trucks. The new truck I got a couple months ago is an automatic. Took me about a month to get adjusted to it but like I told the boss all pays the same so I don’t care what you give me. The only thing I ask, the company is to give me a truck that has never been smoked in.
Driver has more control of the truck with a manual transmission, in snowi and ice. They put anybody in the truck to keep wages down.
It allows them to disengage from the task. Seen bunch with their feet up on the dash, playing with the phone. Aa manual forces both feet on the floor, and both hands to be involved. But bad driving is just bad driving.
No.. you are wrong. I drove nothing but a manual and I still put my foot up. I know how to float the gears. You are just stooopid
Had an Automatic for 4 years before I left the biz. I loved it and I never lost focus of the task.
@@christopherarner8322😂, Only your Dash Cam knows for sure. LOL 😂
Not me, just my "Trainer".
I love my auto. I save my arm and leg, have additional space, and I don’t have to worry about missing a gear or coasting. Btw, got my license in a manual.
My dad started driving in the mid 80’s with a twin stick Mack. A few years ago he was one of the last ones with his company that still had a manual transmission and was one of the drivers talking all that mess about automatic trucks. Welp when they upgraded his truck it was an automatic and he was very vocal about it to say the least until he started driving it. Fast forward 5 years later and now you can’t get him to jump back in a truck with a manual transmission. He’s gotten spoiled by it but he will curse that forward collision system like there’s no tomorrow when it brake checks him because of it misreading some random thing on the highway.
Policeman : Hey driver,why did you try going under that 12 foot bridge with a 13' 6" trailer ?
Driver : translated .......I'm driving an automatic
4:28 I have a certain amount of pride in knowing I’m getting paid to handle a vehicle most people, especially lawmakers, are afraid of. That being said, if I could find a job that pays as well, but driving a 4 wheeler, I’d be there yesterday. As far as automatics are concerned, smoke if ya got ‘em.
I miss your live shows so much Mark. I caught up on all your podcast driving from the bay to LA. 😂
I know right he’s lacking love the podcast
Mark you are exactly right ANYBODY can be trained to drive a manual transmission. What is needed is a more comprehensive way to teach drivers to operate safely. Who is going to spend the time and money to make that happen? Too many drivers operate the truck like it was a oversized four wheeler it has nothing to do with the kind of transmission it has.
Miss the trucking answers live shows.
IM GLAD I CAN DRIVE BOTH
I believe if Mark ever showed up at Public Trucker Events; he’d have a Police 👮♀️ Escort. LOL 😂🤣😂
I drove a manual after a year in an auto and loved it! The transmission has no effect on driver safety!
Want to seriously fix all the problems in trucking? Make the industry move to only owner operators. It will never happen, but it would solve almost every problem... Might make some new ones such as barrier to entry but that could be a good thing as well. You'd have to outlaw brokers though (direct shipper load boards could easily replace them now).
Auto Transmission Rigs are ok for the road, but for city LTL driving, not so good, perhaps they were improved, former City LTL driver, present.
It was never my goal to drive a semi. I went into this because the pay for warehouse sucks, making a person work two jobs to pay the bills.
Happy new year 😊
Looking forward to the party at the man hole 🎉
lol me too
There is alot of people that wouldn't no how to drive a 10 speed you would lose alot of driver I drive a 6 speed manual on my pickup
I have had 2 Focuses and loved them!
With all the congestion automatics are nice. I don't see the point of all the calisthenics you have to do shifting all the time. It also helps to prevent varicose veins.
When you're in your early 30's, it's tough to grasp this new technology. Count me in too.
SAFETY is the issue!!! I have a ZERO smart drive score, and no one cares. We also have drivers that have hit multiple bridges and drove into buildings and, no one cares. Yes they still work here. sad.
Happy New Year Mark and everyone else here! 🎉- Why should we be taking advice from a kid under 40 like Mark? lol Mark is the Jack Benny of trucking.
You put the left foot in, you take the left foot out! Then you shake it all about, that's what it is all about!!!
The largest part of the automatic issue is that when the fleets of ALL sizes buy them, the buyers for the fleets buy these trucks with the access to the gears locked out from the drivers' access to properly learn how to actually operate it in a truck. Just "drop it in D and go!" The fleets are told."Just let the truck shift itself, and 'IT'LL BE FINE! THE DRIVERS ARE DUMB AND WILL TEAR THEM OUT AND COST YOU $$$$$$$! THE TRUCK'S COMPUTER KNOWS BETTER! " Yeah, right. 😠
Even in an AT, I want to select a gear for grades. And don't forget that the "engine brake" is manually (switch) selected.
@morthomer5804 Right. And it will keep on grabbing gears on the downshift and rev the engine if you don't watch it.
There is a difference between all you have to do is hit the accelerator and you go manual you more pay attention to what you're doing if you're going uphill in ice and snow the automatic will kick your gear for you and if you're not paying attention to it you will spin out manual you'll know when the shift
You know there is a thing called "manual mode" right.....where you can hold a specific gear......
This is how long I’ve been in that when they started to implement automatic trucks even at my company they did it for the drivers that weren’t good enough to operate a manual, and since they realized that was automatics, they could give the volume of drivers that they need it It’s spread like wildfire no longer did they need somebody that could have coordination with the clutch and the gears in the end no matter what is still costing the money in repairs and an accident lawsuit so in the venture of gaining capacity the field trucks, and bypass experience they still paying out-of-pocket
At least 9X out of 10 if you drive a manual first you will most likely have more respect for the equipment when transitioning to an automatic. It’s always on the driver, but people tend to get complacent in automatics. They get used to it slowing down faster, downshifting for them and so most don’t slow down in advance on a hill as you would in a manual. Eventually they get caught off guard. It’s true it doesn’t make someone good, you can still choose to drive it carelessly and irresponsibly.
No it’s the dudes they bring on buses from Pakistan or Iraq
The Kwiky Mart wasn't hiring.
English language skills for foreign drivers should be assessed as well!!!
I am a Colombian and an o/o in USA and I agree 100%.
Yessss that’s the problem
I Love i-shift!
At least in the automatic, it is easier to pee in a bottle while you’re driving.
Mark sometimes you just love to Ruffle Feathers don’t you? 😂
The love for driving is gone the love forbidden independent cowboy is gone to
Our fleet is probably 98% manual doses not really matter to me. If truck runs and is legal then I will drive wherever they give me. Make more money driving than most other people at other jobs
Yep, more than most, but your not properly compensated for the time and danger of doing the job.
Yes because everyone and their mothers are driving these semis, and aren't taking matters seriously.
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There not automatics Mark, they are auto shifts. there manual transmissions with a computer that shifts them
Let's see does your car on cruise going down hill come out of gear into natural?? These automatic plus of crap do hhhmmm oohh and by the way how do you maintain controll of a truck that by FSCSA is in voliation???
Automatics lower the bar to allow people to drive trucks and it waters down the driver pool.
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The problem is that automatic trucks invite any and everybody to drive a truck
Including Mark himself. 😂
@anthonywilliams8306 That was the purpose of bringing them to market; to put asses in the seat.
You act like it’s hard to drive a manual transmission.
@midlifetrucker-thombell4722 No, you act like it's hard.. you probably took your road test with a automatic
@@anthonywilliams8306I’m making six figures, W-2, driving a 2024 Pererbilt with automated transmission. Will getting a manual pay me more?
Auto shifters are the only way to go. Once you use one, you'll never go back to manual.
Been there done that. I will stay with my manual 18.
@VivaCatatumbo973 Ooo..You're a real super trucker. 😅
@@Mars-77 Cope crybaby
@@VivaCatatumbo973 ok big twime twuck dwiver.
Mark. I've been driving since 1983. My Peterbilt 389 with the leather, diamond pleat headliner with the 18 speed has an 8 foot chrome shifter, naked lady shift knob. The way I see it, if your shifter isn't scraping the headliner, you ain't a driver.
Automatic transmissions were intruduced to get more women into the industry
Automatics are part of the problem. So are big fleets importing slaves to fill seats.
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