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Originally Posted by Lunker
So then why are you pissed off?
I'm not pissed off, but opinions that lump auto shift drivers into an unsafe category are rather ridiculous and that's my opinion.
Splitshifter wrote:
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There are some people who are "naturals" when it comes to driving a truck and are good right from the start, and there are others who, even if they went to truck driver school for 25 years would never be able to handle a truck safely or shift gears properly. Automatic transmissions in big trucks bring us that much closer to putting incompetent drivers out there.
Not ridiculous at all.
You know how to proficiently operate a truck with a manual.
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is ridiculous is training new drivers on automatics because it's "easier"to get them through the training program that way and put "meat in the seat".