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Posted: 10 years, 8 months ago
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Be warned about Automatic/Manual CDL
A recruiter for USX came by my CDL school here in Houston TX; he said all there newer 2014 trucks and up are going back to manual transmissions. Anything before that is an automatic.Simply not true. I drive for US Xpress right now and I have a 2011 International Pro Star that is a 10-speed. There are probably more automatics than manuals in the fleet currently but not a huge amount more.
Im just relaying the message here. He did say that anything 2014 and up is manual.. no more autos.
Posted: 10 years, 8 months ago
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Be warned about Automatic/Manual CDL
US Xpress and he said they switched to 100% automatics 2 years ago.I drove for US Xpress for 6 years and they had automatics before I drove there. It was more like 12 years ago they made the switch to automatics. I've heard recently that they're thinking about switching back to standards also, but nothing definitive on that.
A recruiter for USX came by my CDL school here in Houston TX; he said all there newer 2014 trucks and up are going back to manual transmissions. Anything before that is an automatic.
Posted: 10 years, 8 months ago
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Be warned about Automatic/Manual CDL
Thats good info, Old School. I've talked to a good number of recruiters already, and came to the conclusion that what they say is sort of a stretch of the truth. Not a lie, but not 100% accurate either. I don't consider what they say to be guaranteed, and I won't allow that to dictate my opinion of a company. Best thing to do is your own research.