Manual or Automatic?

[El Correcto]

I prefer manuals. I drive one everyday, if I’m covering a route in an automatic I catch my foot going for the clutch while pulling up at a stop.

 

[Redtag_tech]

With how UPS is cutting everything back, it only make sense to make the truck Manual again. A automatic transmission is about 3x more than a stick.

 

[brostalss]

 

[badpal]

learned 3 on the tree. Good luck!!!

Been a lot of years, but it seems we had old bubbletop econoline vans that were 3 on the tree . Used them in feeders actually for hauling packages to very remote centers.

 

[badpal]

I still think all employee shod be required to qualify on a manual . Say you break down at another center they they only have manuals to give you in return?

Or if a package guy breaks down and mechanic only has manuals for a swap?

Seen often a young driver who was promised he would never have to drive one come in one morning and find his route loaded on one. Welcome to UPS, they learned.

 

[rod]

My first 20 years there were only manual transmissions.
I liked the manuals in bad weather but I found the first generation automatic equipped package cars on a rural trip (150-200 miles a day) enabled me to get done 45 minutes sooner.

? wth

 

[rod]

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A three speed would work just as well

 

[oldngray]

A three speed would work just as well

3 on the tree would blow their minds

 

[moreluck]

Manual is like having "the club" for your car. Most youngins don't have a clue how to drive stick.

Much the same way that 'cursive' has become the senior secret code.

 

[Zowert]

For my first year I was doing junk routes in nothing but 5-speed antiques (we still have 4 or 5 of them here). Now there are like 8 drivers under me that have to deal with it. I’ve been covering actual routes since peak, all have automatics. I think this seems to be the norm with centers around the country, phasing the manual transmissions out, using the ones still lingering for bulk stops and/or junk routes.

 

[clean hairy]

learned 3 on the tree. Good luck!!!

The older ( early 60's i think) Mercedes 190 had 4 on the tree?

 

[tourists24]

We have phased out almost all of our manuals. Of course now we have to contend with all these stupid electric pieces of crap that are at the center. A lot of em

 

[rod]

The older ( early 60's i think) Mercedes 190 had 4 on the tree?

My brother had some foreign car that was 4 on the tree but it wasn't a Mercedes that's for sure.

 

[rod]

 

[UselessPeopleSupervising]

Love when I cover a route that’s manual. Gives me a free day with management.

Why were you 2 hours over?
Hadn’t drove stick in a while was a little rusty sorry.

Then don’t get put on a stick route for a couple months, it’s a win-win.

 

[specter208]

For my first year I was doing junk routes in nothing but 5-speed antiques (we still have 4 or 5 of them here). Now there are like 8 drivers under me that have to deal with it. I’ve been covering actual routes since peak, all have automatics. I think this seems to be the norm with centers around the country, phasing the manual transmissions out, using the ones still lingering for bulk stops and/or junk routes.

I would ask the car Parker to put in a manual everyday!