It is really amusing how some people think that an auto box has made the job easier and that useless drivers are now flocking in their drones because of it. The job has never been hard to begin with, only the conditions have altered. You do not or have never had to go to University or college to drive a lorry. Any one with half a brain can drive a manual truck and an auto makes it even easier. Driving and drivers are not judged on if they can drive a manual gear box or not, they don’t have to nowadays. That doesn’t have any relevance or bearing on a drivers ability. Trunking up and down a motorway all day is what has made drivers useless along with being micro managed. You may as well say that power steering has had an input into dumbing the job down. The fact of the matter is that driving is easy and anyone with no qualifications can do it. It attracts this type of person as you can do twice the hours everyone else works in a week and they see this as a good option to earn more money. That’s the main problem, not auto boxes.