I did CDL school in 2017, then worked OTR until late 2020. I’ve been out of trucking since then. All the companies had me in automatics. I don’t have a restriction on my cdl, but we only had a couple weeks of road experience in cdl school on 10 speeds including the dmv road test.
Is it worth it to pay for cdl school again just to practice shifting? I’m thinking about getting back into trucking, but I’m not sure certain companies with 13 and 18 speeds (or any kind of manual transmission) would want to hire me. Matter of fact, I don’t have the confidence to even apply to companies that don’t use automatics.
I Didn’t really enjoy shifting in cdl school. Am I limiting my career big time by not mastering all forms of manual transmission or is this mostly irrelevant nowadays?
