www.SemiCasualShow.com This truck has the Paccar MX13 and Eaton Auto-shift transmission. We added a few things to give the truck a nice look and took it out for a test drive! Looking for a new truck? www.FitzgeraldPeterbilt.com
I've driven a ton of manuals over the years. Now I'm in a 2023 Freightliner Cascadia daycab. Pulling a 48ft Hensley 8 compartment feed wagon. 12-speed automated manual. Run a 12hr shift feeding about 800,000 hogs. 5:00pm. to 5:00am. That auto makes it really nice late at night pulling onto some farms to deliver feed. Tight country backroads. Running through small towns and even short interstate hops. Love the auto. Not so much the Freightliner. That Pete in a daycab would be sharp pulling our feedwagons! Sharp truck.
Nice clean good looking truck. Wasn’t fan of Paccar motor at first but after being around them more they have growing on me. Worked on them when working for Transport America. Last 2 years I drove a 2015 579 day cab with MX13 hauling grain with hopper bottom. Was smooth running and had good pulling power. Got between 5.5 to 6 miles to gallon hauling around 90,000 lbs gross from field to elevator. I have a friend with 2015 579 mid roof with MX13 that has 800,000 miles on it and still going strong.
The company I drive for only uses Frieghtliner’s with auto shift 😢. I will say I enjoy the auto shift in this Southern California traffic, but I love the manual transmission myself. Love your trucks guys and your content too.
With the new technology in the 8 and up to 10 spd automatics, couple thay with paddle shifters, the hellcats and mustangs are quick! And you get to hang on with both hands so the stang guys don't end up on the sidewalk 😁 Ive been in a auto 13 spd western star for almsot a year and im still on the fence. I appreciate it when i have my coffee in my hand i spose.
I’ve driven a couple of new autos messing around with friends’ rigs. If I were still still driving today I’d gladly take one, hands down. And I’m an old guy. These aren’t the Allison slush boxes of the ‘70s and ‘80s. This is a real truck transmission that happens to shift via a microprocessor. And it’s shifts perfectly every time. Unlike a human. No matter how good you think you are, that truck shifts better than you can, each and every gear. I’d imagine the savings in fuel alone would pay for it in pretty short order. I can see why it’s the coming thing. I was impressed.
I currently drive a 337 Peterbilt bobtail hauling LPG in Maine and it is equipped with a 350 horse PACCAR diesel and I have a Jake brake as well and backed up Allison 6 speed automatic with 5.57 gear ratio.
I drive a mack and I have a automatic transmission in it and I didn't think that I would like it. My loads way about 95,000 pounds per load. I don't plan on going back to shift a truck again.
The automated manuals have come a real long way since the original auto shifts (automated with a clutch pedal). But if you know how to operate one correctly, whether it’s an Eaton, DT-12, mDrive/iShift, they will do what a normal standard shift will do. But I still think the fun I’m driving truck is towing them gears.
The only thing I’d have to change is the visor. I’d put a Gangsta 14” drop visor on but not a SLAMMED one like the one shown and also the side window chop visors to match the front. I could never sit on the floor like a lot of people do . I need just enough air in the seat to keep from bottoming out but yet not so much that I would have to lean down to see under the visor The color reminds me of the old Tri State Motor Lines fleet color
I love this truck, I love automatic, I have been drive automatic since 2012, man, I love it it's reduced fatigue by 50%, I can drive the truck with automatic up to 17 hours none stop, they have more safety features and more advance than traditional ( manual) especially driving on the mountain, corners, up hills down hills, modern super cars now all automatic, very powerful, very fast, save gas and fuels, semi trucks same things, my 2018 Feightliner now more than 500,000 thousands miles and it's takes 8.6 mpg.
honestly, once upon a time i would not have wanted an automatic due to the issues they originally had. they have been around long enough and have become common enough that i dont mind not shifting all the time. let the transmission do the work. let me drive and focus on that. love that color, wish peterbilt had left the dash alone, especially since they were just going to discontinue it within a few years anyway.
We have a 389 being built in a month with 605HP cummins and the Endurant XD Pro 18 speed auto. Gonna pull 140,000 lb Super B trailers out of soft yards and fields. Have you guys had a chance to drive this new combo of engine and trans? PS. Have had a Freedomline 12sp and Cummins 500 doing this for 17 years with no issues.
I was in the process of looking for a truck and tried to get in touch with yall to see if yall had or knew of a new truck to buy . But found this one on my profile .
I’m leaning towards a auto. Been driving since 1980. I’ve driven all types of transmissions. The technology today is unbelievable. Who has the best. I pull a end dump. They have to be compatible with a wet kit.
My dad been driving for 20 years in a shifted and he has fluids in his knees so I know he needs the auto shift but he hates it lol hes in one right now
Ram trucks was the last of the big 3 to offer manual trans, but the last year for a manual was 2018. I think fords last year for manual in the super duty was 2010.
Auto-shift truck are 90% of the European market AND they run far heavier weights than we do here on a daily basis. This same engine in a DAF runs 520-540 hp and still averages 8.5 mpg.
Do you have a column shifter for that truck laying around? We have a 2019 567 with the Paccar powerplant and it is in Greeley Colorado waiting for the shift column. We live in Utah. Sometimes it doesn't go into reverse. That part is on national backorder. Some drivers have been waiting for over 4 month for that part. We are grateful because our equipment has no debt on it. If you have that shift column laying around let me know.
I drive an automatic 2022 Cascadia, as a semi local driver, and I love it. I just hit the throttle and go. Trafic lights and high traffic situations are a breeze. I'm not a fan of all the "safety" features they are putting on the trucks now.
Are all the truck's going automatic or can you still get them in manual ? I'm asking cause to me a diesel engine ain't a diesel engine without the manual . Also what brand truck is sold more or in other words more popular ?
I really don’t mind the automatic in the T680 I drive, but I still would prefer a 13-speed. An as far as the adaptive cruise control goes you can throw it away. Hate it so much.
europe is different as you need larger motors for automatics or they get slow from lights, and burn fuel ,, I remember going from London in a Ford Focus getting 49mpg, and driving a rental in California, that was auto, and got suckie fuel mileage and had trouble leaving at stop lights..lol..cost me more fuel than I had budgeted for..
I'm not a hater of the autoshifts. We have a few in out fleet. They are very unreliable. They are great in traffic in Toronto parking lots. But when they act up they leave you stranded.
@@MrKickazz101 you can manually select a gear until you start sliding and then your up a creek. I slid down a pit hill covered in a foot of snow that I jacknifed on half way down. I was feathering it perfectly until it started to search for a gear even in manual mode. Just when it was about to take out the scale shack it grabbed a gear and I was able to pull out of the jacknife. Definitely not your normal roads, but not ideal. The autoshift makes some up hill and downhill shifts in good conditions I don't even think with my 22 years experience I could have / would have tried successfully
I haven't tried the Eaton Auto transmissions yet, but I've been I a Freightliner with an auto for awhile now, and only just recently swapped into a truck with the adaptive cruise. As for the automatic transmission I love it, I keep it I manual mode about 90% of the time, and the only time it will still change gears automatically is if the RPM gets too low, it'll pop down a gear or two. Climbing and descending hills it works great. The last truck I was in for a little over 3 years with no issues. I think if I bought/speced my own truck I'd definitely go with the auto now. One of the maintenance guys from our company says the maintenance cost between the Autos and the Manuals in the fleet are nominal at best, they only periodically get a truck here or there that is a lemon, but that's covered under warranty if it's new. On the plus side, regardless of the make, it frees up some floor space at least. I'm pretty young still, 32, but a lot of our older drivers in the fleet prefer the Autos now, especially the guys with bad knees which isn't uncommon amongst us flatbeders.
@Ethan King with the economy right now I'd suggest whichever you get from the company you go work for. I wouldn't buy, never ever lease, or rent a truck until things settle down.
I still don’t see how a automatic will do with a smooth bore tanker. I told my old job I refuse to drive a smoothie if they got me an automatic. I don’t know, even some of the manuals might as well be an automatic, I mean 1 of the Internationals me new work rents won’t let you go over 1500rpm’s in the lower range and only 1700 in the upper 5. And the engine break only works in 8&9th unless you rev over 1600 while downshifting into 7th. And no engine break below 7th.
Because anyone can drive one they have pros and cons if you have certain problems on the road you can't get it in gear and your stuck I'm old school I still won't buy anything but a 18 or 13 speed manual
It's hard enough just driving a big rig so and automatic for me is the way to go,they're easier in traffic and they're less work especially when you're older
I love the automatics. Much easier to drive, and when it comes to cars, theres a reason mot drag cars have automatics like poweglides and TH 350s and 400s, they shift mych quicker
Americans invented the automatic transmission, and automatic became the normal for cars decades earlier in USA than in Europe. Yet in American heavy trucks automatic is still a rarity. Now in Europe all new heavy trucks are automatic, manufacturers stopped offering manuals as there was no demand.
If you buy a newer truck 2007 and above it’s a guarantee your first couple years owning that truck that you will spend over $70,000 just in replacing sensors that’s a guarantee to buy a newer truck find older one 2007 and older I thought you guys were better than that. I thought you guys just redid all older trucks now I’m really disappointed, thank you for showing us a beautiful. I can’t call it a semi truck because anyone can drive it called forward drivers they won’t be able to reverse but they’re forward driver’s.
