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

I don't know if you wanted to include my company since we only hire from Colorado and Arizona but I'll throw it out there anyway.

American Furniture Warehouse doesn't hire brand new cdl grads--they need at least one year experience. We have Freightliners, Kenworth T680s, and International ProStars. The Freightliners and most of the KWs are 13 speed manuals and all the Internationals are 10 speed manuals. I believe we're generally moving toward more automatics in the fleet but it may be quite a while before we're an all-auto fleet.

I would say the type of transmissions are burnt, but wrong company, lol.

May Trucking is all Auto's. They've reduced the training period to around 2.5 weeks because of it.

Mix of Both

The Volvos are all automatics with iShift, the Freightliner Cascadias are mostly 10-spds.

We currently have about 75 trucks, and about 50 of them are automatic now. 3 years ago, we had 48 trucks, and 24 Automatics. I think the goal at one point was to eventually be about 75/25 Autos to Manuals. Our computer data says the fuel economy is superior, and surprisingly contrary to what I see online, its our older, established veteran drivers that are the ones who request them most often.

We road test all drivers in a manual transmission here, so I promise this is not a strategy to make it easier to hire drivers, is just makes the best business sense for the company and driver satisfaction.

Just list your company name and either:

Oh yeah... Greater Omaha Express! ha!

SWIFT: 9 Speed, 10 Speed, Automatic. WCSG: 10 Speed, Automatic VERMEER: 10 Speed, 13 Speed, 15 Speed, 18 Speed

Got everything updated to this point. We're doing great! Two questions:

1) What is Prime training new drivers in? Probably a mix I would guess?

2) Mr Smith, what is WCSG?

A quick google search came up with West Coast Sand and Gravel. That may be it.