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 ...

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 ...

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

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

For a non-CDL driver getting behind the wheel for the first time of a Kenworth T880 Mixer loaded to 42,000 lbs., an Eaton automated manual transmission made the truck about as easy to drive and make ...

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, ...

On the one side you have grouchy old farts unwilling to consider new ways of doing anything. On the other you have people who maybe grew up not knowing anything different and who denounce ancient ...

Bryan Berg drives a semi with a 13-speed transmission, and he’s been double-clutching and shifting gears in his rig for 30 years. He’s not about to start driving a truck that shifts automatically. “I ...

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, ...

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 ...