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Cruise Control on Manual Transmission.

Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by CallMeTawanda, Jul 15, 2017.

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  1. Jul 15, 2017 #1
    CallMeTawanda

    CallMeTawanda Light Load Member

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    Without getting into a debate about the merits/bad things about Cruise Control I have a question.

    I recently got hired on at Covenant Transport and I will be driving a 2015 Freighliner Cascadia with a manual transmission. My question is, do the manual transmissions on these trucks have Cruise Control?
     
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  3. Jul 15, 2017 #2
    not4hire

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    Manual transmission trucks can have cruise control.
     
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  4. Jul 15, 2017 #3
    AModelCat

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    As long as its enabled in the ECM and it has controls for it, it will have it.
     
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  5. Jul 15, 2017 #4
    InTooDeep

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    My manual trans does
     
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  7. Jul 15, 2017 #5
    motocross25

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    It will probably have cruise control. Although fair warning, it is not like cruise control on your car where you can just "set it and forget it". It'll still lug and require driver interference up large hills and/or mountains. Also on my Freightliner if I run the jake brake on, it'll keep it held back while goin down smaller hills. To a point. Especially when you get out west with 75k on don't expect it to hold 65 mph down some of (read: all) of those grades. Nor should you be rocketing down them that fast in the first place.
     
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  8. Jul 15, 2017 #6
    CallMeTawanda

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    Oh I completely get that thank you. I was Driving a 2017 Peterbilt with Auto Trans. The cruise control behaved much like you described.
     
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  9. Jul 15, 2017 #7
    Mike2633

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    We have the cruse control I like it and set it sometimes it's nice to have.
     
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    pattyj

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    I'm pretty sure they do and once you get comfortable driving your trainer may encourage you to use the cruise.
     
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  11. Jul 15, 2017 #9
    supersnackbar

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    Been driving OTR 22+ years, always manual, and every truck I've driven OTR had cruise. The only trucks I have driven that didn't was before my OTR days when I was driving for a local chicken plant, and 99% of their trucks were old mechanical engines (as in, built before computers ran things). The cruise control on those was your right foot and a heavy load.
     
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  12. Jul 15, 2017 #10
    motocross25

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    Georgia Overdrive!!
     
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