Manual transmissions need to be gone yesterday!
- Thread starter Joeyskye
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Keenj
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Can we at least end CODs? In a day where everyone has the ability to instantly complete transactions, I don't know why we still have to take checks from the few fuddy duddies who can't get with the times.
Boulevard859710
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I have to drive one when they pull my truck for a PMI or oil change.
Gloominati
D.Y.S.
Turn radius is better in a manual, so I don't mind them. That and you can rev in neutral to send a message to other drivers, a lost part of the communicate in traffic list.
Gloominati
D.Y.S.
Only 
ty thing about the manual 1ks is they all seem governed at 65mph.
ty thing about the manual 1ks is they all seem governed at 65mph.
PASinterference
Yes, I know I'm working late.
We got ourselves a fireball here, boys. I like her!!!!
Rack em
Made the Podium
I've gotten a manual up to 70mph. I would have gone faster but it was in a school zone after allOnly
JL 0513
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Well obviously manuals are on there way out since they haven't made any since the 90's. My center just has a hand full of those Spicer manual 700's left. All around 300-450,000 miles on them. They'll be gone in the next couple years. So most centers I imagine have to be full auto by 2020. New drivers have it so easy.
Yes, will make 30+ years of 200+ daily furniture gallery stops just fly by!
Gloominati
D.Y.S.
Don't forget overtstock, Casper mattresses and the god forsaken Pottery Barn Children bs.
1BROWNWRENCH
Amatuer Malthusian
I'll just be glad to quit getting more of them. Had too many clapped-out POS from Cali forced on me already. Just now got the last of the old GMC's crushed.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Could it be the $12.50 per package that we charge to process COD payments?
MAKAVELI
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As long as he has a lift. Otherwise it will likely be a lot longer.
UnconTROLLed
perfection
My personal favorites are those Concept Kayaks as well as EZ closets. Good thing we have automatic transmission vehicles though.
1BROWNWRENCH
Amatuer Malthusian
And a clutch can be wiped out in about the same time by a driver who doesn't know what he's doing. A clutch job in an IHC takes me about 4 hours without repairing anything associated with the job. Something always needs repairs.
DriverNerd
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I would rather have an old 10 cube manual over any of the new trucks. I really don't like my Freightliner. Just a pain in the ass. Ok, it's not all bad....it's quick, quiet, has a low step, and nice bright lights in the cargo area. And since I'm a left foot braker, it's nice that the brake doesn't override the gas. But the transmission drives me crazy. It never picks the right gear. It holds gears when it should shift. It up shifts when I need more acceleration. Just very annoying. If the speed limit goes from 30-55 or something I'll be in 5th and put my foot down to the floor. Will it downshift to the lowest gear? Oh no, just one gear and slow and steady. Downhill going 30 again in 5th speeding up and up, foot on the brake the whole way down. At an intersection with fast moving traffic...Pull out too slowly gives you a shift to 2nd and no way to easily get up to speed as putting your foot down won't give you the needed shift back to first.
I don't have a problems with automatics, but these new ones need work. And shift inhibit can kiss my ass (not the transmissions fault, just programming).
I don't have a problems with automatics, but these new ones need work. And shift inhibit can kiss my ass (not the transmissions fault, just programming).
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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You brake with your left foot?
1BROWNWRENCH
Amatuer Malthusian
Nobody has a lift here at UPS.
MAKAVELI
Well-Known Member
That's crazy talk! A mechanic with no lift. Might as well be working in your backyard.Nobody has a lift here at UPS.
