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DonDittmar 
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 Posted: 28 Sep 2023 at 5:51am |
Automatic/automated transmission cut drive line failures by probably 90%. When its your truck and you are driving it that one thing, but when you have to HIRE a driver to put in that seat, anything you can do to limit failures is money in your pocket.
Little to no trucks are being configured "old school" because there are little to no "old school" drivers left to drive them....
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Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity"
1968 D15D,1962 D19D
Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start
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klinemar
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Posted: 28 Sep 2023 at 2:50pm |
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Oldest Son was an Army mechanic from 2000 to 2008. One morning the Motor Pool Sargeant came in and asked if anyone knew how to drive a gearshift? Matt raised his hand. Sargeant said your not old enough! Matt said I came from a farm! Sargeant said follow me and took him outside. There was a M35 deuce and a half that had just came from a rebuild. Matt said I know I can drive that Sargeant as my Reserve Unit back home had M35's. Sargeant told him to deliver to a Unit at Fort Bliss as no one else could drive it !
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Calvin Schmidt
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Posted: 29 Sep 2023 at 1:13pm |
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I'm an old codger and have driven most manuals. Had a KW cabover with a twin stick 4x4 pulling doubles back in the early 70's. A few 5 and 2 speed rears with a short fourth. Had a Chevy single axle with and Allison and a 2 speed axle. That was a nice combo. Years ago at a job in Manitoba, the mixer trucks were all Allison with a 4 speed auxiliary which was great on jobs sites. Brother in law and nephew have a fleet to triaxle dump trucks. Just got two new Western Stars with 500 hp DD15's and Allison trannys. Love them. Another friend who had both autoshift and Allison dump trucks told them to go for the Allison. Worth the extra money. My farm trucks are still old school 9 and 13 speeds.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 05 Oct 2023 at 11:50pm |
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back in 1971 our local school buses had auto's in them, they'd wind up and sounded like they were gonna granade before they shifted. a buddy of mine runs all MACK trucks, and he won't buy anything with an auto tranny in it. musta had some back luck sometime?
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DMiller
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Location: Hermann, Mo
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Posted: 06 Oct 2023 at 8:30am |
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Wanna screw with a Millennials head, tell them can have a car FREE if can drive it well enough to pass drivers tests. Show up with a stick/clutch.
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Dakota Dave
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Posted: 06 Oct 2023 at 10:12am |
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the farm I harvested beets converted their trucks to autos. I liked them Driving a 12 hr shift with a road ranger I was wore out. We straight load from the harvester so you drive alone the harvester matching speed and stay 18” away. 1/2 mile later you exit the field acceletrate to hwy speed. 5 miles later wait in stop and go at the pier. Usually 20 stops till your turn on piles. Back to the field and do it again. Usually make 10 to 12 trips in a shift. autos a lot less work my clutch foot doesn’t hurt when I go home. I use the same fuel as I did before and the autos accelerate better. We’re running quad axles at around 72k. After aluminum boxes they wieght around 22 k empty
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1955CA
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Posted: 06 Oct 2023 at 9:05pm |
 jaybmiller wrote:
Don't matter what the tranny is, 99.44% of 'truckers' around here don't know HOW to drive let alone being nice to the rest of us.
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That's why I retired from being an owner operator. I was getting embarrassed to admit to anyone that I was a trucker. The industry and it's drivers has definitely gone down the toilet.
Oh.....was that my outside voice?
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