reader poll respondents' use of varying levels of automation in transmission equipment. When this story was written in 2013, it asked this question about automated and automatic transmissions in over-the-road trucking: "Will they finally be able to make a strong inroads?" According to poll results this April and May, Overdrive readers, most of them owner-operators, answered with something along the lines of not so much: The lion's share of readers' use of fully manual transmissions hasn't changed much (dropping only from 75% to 72%) in the nearly eight years since we last asked this poll question. The share of those utilizing automated-manual transmissions gained three points, while fully automatic shifters gained just a single percentage point.