What Type Of Transmission Does Your Company Use? Making A Master List.

Not real common that people inquire.... but foodservice (sysco, Performance foods, us foods) are all going auto. Slowly Replacing the manuals

Pride Transport

Mix, but focusing on ordering new trucks with automatics. Still ordering some manuals to cater to veteran drivers that want them.

Last I knew, they were asking incoming experienced drivers for their preference and trying to accomodate, but they don't guarantee availability.

Students train on whatever is in the trainer's truck.

Hey everyone, I'm building a master list of trucking companies and the type of transmission they're running. You can find the list here:

Type Of Transmissions Used By Trucking Companies

I get a lot of questions about this so we need a list for people to reference. Just list your company name and either:

1) All automatics

2) All standard

3) Mix of both

Also, let me know:

Is your company is in the process of switching to automatics?

If your company trains new drivers, do they train on standards or automatics?

Thanks so much!

Prime has a few older manuals it's trying to offload to L/O and first time drivers before they sell them out of the fleet at 500k but is making a strong push saying they're going fully automatic with all new purchases henceforth from 2018. Mostly Freightliner, trying to squeeze as many as possible into lightweights but has probably 5% Peterbilt and the rare International (always older).

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.

My 16 Volvo has been great too! No issues so far, not a bad truck.

Ok, Brett, let me try to take a stab at this:

Company: CRST Expedited.

Right now I believe (subject to confirmation) that we are a

Mix of both

Also, let me know:

Is your company is in the process of switching to automatics? Answer: We to my estimation are about 75% Automatics, so Yes

If your company trains new drivers, do they train on standards or automatics? Answer: At NADTA which is the school that CRST owns the class I was in, Class 203 was the last class to fully test in Manuals. Class 204 had the option of both. They preferred Automatic for ease however if you had to drive a stick, they would work with ya. Class 205 and later now does it exclusively in automatics. However the schools that CRST does not own but contracts to are all sticks only. for our flatbed division (Malone) and for dedicated services routes I am not sure, however Expedited drivers and new Lead Drivers all have automatic trucks to train students due to the fact that students comin out of NADTA will have the E restriction on their license.

Restriction E= No Manual Transmission equipped Commercial Motor Vehicle.

Most of the older lease trucks are Manuals but the main company fleet is all automatics now. One tip for distinguishing our trucks: if you see a four digit truck number, that is an owner operator. Six digit truck numbers that have 11xxxx are lease operators and six digit truck numbers that are 10xxxx are company drivers.

Anyone know about Stevens Transport? I'll find out for myself in 2 weeks if nothing by then.

Anyone know about Stevens Transport? I'll find out for myself in 2 weeks if nothing by then.

Hi there.

Stevens has a mix of auto-shift and manual; both in the company fleet and also in the training fleet.

The company fleet is gradually changing to auto but owner operators and lease-ops still have a choice.

Hope this helps?

Cheers,

Simon

Anyone know about Stevens Transport? I'll find out for myself in 2 weeks if nothing by then.

Hi there.

Stevens has a mix of auto-shift and manual; both in the company fleet and also in the training fleet.

The company fleet is gradually changing to auto but owner operators and lease-ops still have a choice.

Hope this helps?

Cheers,

Simon

Always helpful. Thanks Simon! ☺

Thanks everyone. I have the list updated to this point:

Master List Of Transmissions Used By Major Trucking Companies

West Side Transport. We use a mix of 10 speed manuals and autoshifts.

We train all drivers with less than 6 months verifiable OTR experience in a Freightliner Cascadia 10 speed manual.

Driver's are issued either a Freightliner Cascadia 10 speed Autoshift, An International ProStar 10 speed Autoshift, a Volvo 12 speed Autoshift, or very rarely a Freightliner Cascadia 10 speed manual, if one is available.

The Volvo's in our fleet are gradually being phased out, which is sad because I sure like them much better than the Internationals. My first truck at WST was a Volvo autoshift and I loved it.. but it's not a good truck for very tall guys (above 6'2" or so).