WHy isnt the clutch a button on the shifter?Whos bright idea was to make it a foot

our 88 Mack RD has one...

 

I am still not convinced you weren't trolling with that question.
If it really is a question then I will give you a reason.
A clutch is not is not flipped between two positions like a switch or a button.
It is not either in or out , it is engaged gradually and gently with as little revs and slip as possible.
This is something a simple switch/button and even some drivers can't do.

 

I drove a 89 Mack that had the light dimmer on the floor.
Didn't mind it at all.
Back then some Mercedes trucks has the lights , direction indicators , horn and dimmer on one stalk.
Forward bright , back dim , left and right for indicators , 3 twist positions for lights and the horn a button on the end.
You would have thought they could have worked the clutch in there somewhere.

 

The occasional double clutch is about the only exercise I've been getting of late...

 

Come to think of it I think most of the pickups still did that well into the 1980s.

I had a 1983 Ford LTD that had the dumbest thing ever, push in on the turn signal lever to honk he horn, I kid you not.

Pretty sure my first OTR truck still had the dimmer on the floor too, 1997 International 9200.

 

Yeah the old body 9000 series international trucks did have it on floor.

I remember driving my dad's friend's 1991 Lincoln Town Car with that automatic headlamp dimmer. #### thing actually worked.

 

I had an Automatic clutching 4 X 4 in a 1975 KW. You had to use it to start and stop tho! LOL After that, if you touched it you'd have to stop and start over. I could drive from Amarillo to OKC and only use it to engage the lo gear to get started and then I'd creep at a stop lite and when I backed up to a cattle chute had to use it.

 

Can we move the brake pedal up there too??