The new ride came in

[ford_truck_guy]

Well, my new ride came in... can’t wait to put it to work...

[Cummins12V98]

blofgren wrote:

ford truck guy wrote:

ACZL wrote:
Shoot, you'd even be hard pressed to get a stick in a semi nowadays.

When ordering new trucks, IF I want ALL the new safety stuff, crash avoidance, etc, It needs to be ordered with automatic...

Out of 58 trucks, I have I think 4 automatic...

Yep, still many manuals out there in the big truck world. I know of a couple of companies that will not buy automatics; the manuals are much cheaper to buy and maintain.

I still like my manual transmission, I find automatics boring after a while. Maybe someday that will change.

I kept looking for a nice 01.5 to 02 Sport long bed but I finally caved in with an auto.

[blofgren]

ford truck guy wrote:

ACZL wrote:
Shoot, you'd even be hard pressed to get a stick in a semi nowadays.

When ordering new trucks, IF I want ALL the new safety stuff, crash avoidance, etc, It needs to be ordered with automatic...

Out of 58 trucks, I have I think 4 automatic...

Yep, still many manuals out there in the big truck world. I know of a couple of companies that will not buy automatics; the manuals are much cheaper to buy and maintain.

I still like my manual transmission, I find automatics boring after a while. Maybe someday that will change.

[shadows4]

Beautiful truck!!!! :C

[ford_truck_guy]

ACZL wrote:
Shoot, you'd even be hard pressed to get a stick in a semi nowadays.

When ordering new trucks, IF I want ALL the new safety stuff, crash avoidance, etc, It needs to be ordered with automatic...

Out of 58 trucks, I have I think 4 automatic... I'm talking the smallest is 33,000# GVW up to 80k with the auto's being on 4 of the 33k

[ford_truck_guy]

blofgren wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

ford truck guy wrote:

blofgren wrote:
Real trucks have cab lights....;) :B

#fakenews !! :B

My days of cab lights are behind me.... just like my days of manual transmissions are way, way behind me !

GrassHopper, you just wait til MaMa wants a "BIGGER" RV!!! BlackBetty 2 will be born with 5 BIG beautiful CabLights. :B

Words of experience!

But it sure won't have a manual transmission.

Yep, unfortunately for you guys I got one of the last ones built... 😉 :B

My big trucks ALL have manual... I am SOOOOOOOOOOO DONE with driving them....

[ACZL]

Shoot, you'd even be hard pressed to get a stick in a semi nowadays.

[Cummins12V98]

FishOnOne wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

ford truck guy wrote:

blofgren wrote:
Real trucks have cab lights....;) :B

#fakenews !! :B

My days of cab lights are behind me.... just like my days of manual transmissions are way, way behind me !

GrassHopper, you just wait til MaMa wants a "BIGGER" RV!!! BlackBetty 2 will be born with 5 BIG beautiful CabLights. :B

Words of experience!

But it sure won't have a manual transmission.

Well maybe he will want a 2018 RAM. :B

[blofgren]

FishOnOne wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

ford truck guy wrote:

blofgren wrote:
Real trucks have cab lights....;) :B

#fakenews !! :B

My days of cab lights are behind me.... just like my days of manual transmissions are way, way behind me !

GrassHopper, you just wait til MaMa wants a "BIGGER" RV!!! BlackBetty 2 will be born with 5 BIG beautiful CabLights. :B

Words of experience!

But it sure won't have a manual transmission.

Yep, unfortunately for you guys I got one of the last ones built... 😉 :B

[FishOnOne]

Cummins12V98 wrote:

ford truck guy wrote:

blofgren wrote:
Real trucks have cab lights....;) :B

#fakenews !! :B

My days of cab lights are behind me.... just like my days of manual transmissions are way, way behind me !

GrassHopper, you just wait til MaMa wants a "BIGGER" RV!!! BlackBetty 2 will be born with 5 BIG beautiful CabLights. :B

Words of experience!

But it sure won't have a manual transmission.

[Cummins12V98]

ford truck guy wrote:

blofgren wrote:
Real trucks have cab lights....;) :B

#fakenews !! :B

My days of cab lights are behind me.... just like my days of manual transmissions are way, way behind me !

GrassHopper, you just wait til MaMa wants a "BIGGER" RV!!! BlackBetty 2 will be born with 5 BIG beautiful CabLights. :B

Words of experience!

[FishOnOne]

ford truck guy wrote:

blofgren wrote:
Real trucks have cab lights....;) :B

#fakenews !! :B

My days of cab lights are behind me.... just like my days of manual transmissions are way, way behind me !

Well said...

[ford_truck_guy]

blofgren wrote:
Real trucks have cab lights....;) :B

#fakenews !! :B

My days of cab lights are behind me.... just like my days of manual transmissions are way, way behind me !

[blofgren]

Real trucks have cab lights....;) :B

[Me_Again]

ACZL wrote:
No cab lights?

I was glad the RAM 3500 we bought from stock did not have them. Not Required, as the trailer has them, and just 5 more leak points.