If a customer wants to drive one of the Class 8 trucks in Ryder’s commercial rental fleet, it will have to be one with an automated manual transmission, which shouldn’t be a problem because that’s ...

In AMTs, gear shifts are performed by the shift actuator, which changes gears based on signals sent by the transmission ...

More of today’s Class 8 trucks are steering away from the traditional manual transmission. As fleets look to increase the pool of potential new drivers, improve fuel economy, and reduce maintenance ...

A semi-automatic transmission combines the best features of both modern automatic and old-school manual gearboxes. Here's how ...

Three years ago, North Santiam Paving in Stayton, Oregon, bought its first dump truck with an Eaton MXP UltraShift automatic transmission. Since then, every new truck purchased by the fleet has been ...

Anyone who's spent any time driving knows that semi-trucks are a fixture on American roads. Vehicles from the most popular semi-truck manufacturers covered just over 500 billion miles in 2022 alone, ...

Manual transmissions used to be a standard item on all pickup trucks. In fact, there was a time not long ago when the manual transmission was standard on all vehicles. Over the decades, though, ...

A computer also controls the transmission now, so it won’t even let you downshift into a gear if you’re going too fast for ...

Learning by doing is a fact of life. The first time you get behind the wheel of a vehicle with a manual transmission is ...

Many new vehicles come with self-driving features that control driving speed, lane position, parking and in some cases allow the driver to let go of the steering wheel entirely. The cost for this ...

With the 2019 Ram heavy-duty trucks abandoning the G56 six-speed, the manual transmission is gone from full-size trucks. Many tears have been shed by enthusiasts; manual transmissions in pickup trucks ...