Truckers don't really drive those rigs- - - -they row them with the shift lever! I learned to drive trucks on a 1964 B-73 Mack Tri-Plex- - - -with a 5 speed main box and a 3-speed Brownie- - - -two shift levers in the same big trans case! A Detroit Diesel 2-stroke and a 13 speed Road Ranger keeps a driver busy shifting gears every time the engine accelerates 400 RPM! A huge number of the big rigs on the road these days have automatics.
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!