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Originally Posted by jcp123
Manuals are dying off in big trucks too. The automated manuals are taking a big portion of the market. My company has a large national fleet and has only bought automated manuals for a few years now - I’d be surprised if there’s more than a few dozen actual manual trucks left in our fleet - but trucks get some advantages from an auto which cars really don’t, so it’s a bit of a different situation.
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Your fleet is pretty typical. The automated manual take rate is rapidly closing in on 100% for on-highway trucks. The only people buying manuals anymore are owner-operators but they don't buy very many new trucks these days.
Vocational trucks have a higher manual take rate but that is shrinking too. (Log trucks, dump trucks, cement mixers, etc)