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TRUCKERS' NEWS * USA: Automatic transmissions, unpopular with drivers
* Missouri - A trucker: "It’s difficult to control a slow roll with an automatic transmission ... "
(Video by Cory J. Draper: "How to shift automatic transmission in Semi Truck, Peterbilt, Freightliner, Kenworth, Volvo" - Aug 24, 2014)
-- You might think that a heavy truck with an automatic transmission would make it easier to negotiate, but you would be wrong... On the tight course at the 2015 National Truck Driving Championships, a healthy majority of the 431 contestants in the skills contest at the championships are driving trucks with automatic transmissions, but many of them don’t like it. The six-problem course is tight, and unlike traveling the interstates, drivers are required to go very slow, stop and drift on a dime... Many drivers have been complaining that it’s difficult to control a slow roll with an automatic transmission. That’s not been the case with the manual transmissions... ABF Freight System driver Ernest Wood, Vermont 4-axle class champion, said he drove an automatic at the competition last year. He agrees they can be tricky for drivers who aren’t used to them... But third-generation automatics are more predictable than earlier models, Mark Courter, equipment chairman of the competition, estimated that 65% of fleets are buying trucks with automated or automatic transmissions...
St. Louis, MO, USA - Transport Topics, by Eric Miller - 24 Aug 2015
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