What Type Of Transmission Does Your Company Use? Making A Master List.
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Roehl Transport uses both 10 speed manuals and automatics. Freightliner cascadia's and international LT's, the older international's are prostars.
My OTR trainer had a freightliner with a 12 speed auto. I drove a loaner freightliner with a 10 seed auto. All training for their CDL program is done with 10 spd manuals. My first truck was a 2015 freightliner, 10 spd manual. Now I've got a 2018 international LT, also manual. I've told my fm that I prefer manual transmissions for any truck I'm permanently assigned. They seem accommodating of driver's preferences.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
Fm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.
Right now McElroy is mixed. All the new trucks are being ordered as automatics with the exception of some of the trainer trucks. We should be all automatics within the next couple of years.
We don’t have a school but we do hire fresh out of an accredited school. Then train in a 10 speed. Should shortly have some trainer trucks that are automatic and then if someone can basically do everything required of the job but just can’t really grasp the shifting they’ll switch them to a trainer with an automatic and if they complete their training they will flag their file as driving only an automatic for our company.
Everyone at my jb hunt account drives a ten speed manual, but I have heard rumors that there are jb hunt otr drivers that have automatics.
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
Alright I've gotten everything up to this point updated. Tom, I'd hate to put wrong information about JB Hunt so if you hear anything more about the OTR fleet let me know. If anyone knows anything more about JB Hunt let us know.
This is going great! Of all companies we haven't heard about Prime yet. I thought that would be the first one we'd hear about. Seems a significant number of people here work for them.
Thanks everyone. Keep it going!
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
A.R. Paquette, believe around 85-90% are automatics now. A few drivers have held onto their manuals.
I'm bumping this because there are a lot of companies left to cover. Here is the master list we have so far:
Type Of Transmissions Used By Trucking Companies
If your company isn't on the list please let us know!
Knight is definitely moving toward a full Auto Shift fleet. There are still a few older trucks around with manual transmissions, but they wiil eventually all be gone.
I've noticed they will switch some of their trucks over into their lease fleet at approximately 500,000 miles. Therefore many of the lease operators are still driving ten speed Eaton manuals.
I'm still driving the 2014 Volvo that was issued to me three and a half years ago. It has the Volvo I-shift auto in it and it's been nothing but dependable. It handles going down a mountain better than I ever could in a manual shift. It's a solid design that works great.
Talked with my friend who works for Averitt Express. They are fully Auto now. He is a trainer, has been for 4 years. He also said that TransAm is fully auto also
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Schneider has a mix of automated manuals and standards. Like most major carriers, we are also in the process of converting to all autoshift. Also, mix of freightliners, KWs, and Internationals. As far as I know, most of our standards are in the older freightliners.