Clutch Pedal Height...

I'm wondering about the height of the clutch pedal as in its relation to brake and accelerator pedals....

I hate that the clutch pedal it sits like 4-5 inches higher than the other pedals. Is there a reason for this? I'm seated just perfectly for easy right leg lift to operate brake/accelerator but then I have raise my left leg kinda uncomfortably higher to engage clutch....and mostly I tapping it in liike an inch maybe to shift....

Just wondering why the huge height difference...where they originally built like that 30 plus years ago because they needed to and just never got "modernized"

((Driving a 2014 Volvo but also used to drive a 2016 Prostar))

(And before anyone says to learn to "Float" to fix that problem....I will...LOL. ...eventually......Still kinda new ...single clutching for now...)

Also can a clutch pedal be lowered at all...? Would love it if I could just pick up my leg a little bit to use like I do with the brake pedal..

 

Well. I'm not pumping it twice at all. So what do you call pumping it once....then?

 

That's what I do all the time. Isn't that called "single clutching". At least that's what I thought it was called....hence my sarcastic remark...sorry for that...in a sarcastic mood today

Anyway to clarify things..
I guess you can say I'm partially "floating" the gears. Tapping clutch in like a 1/2 inch to an inch beyond the free play pulling out of gear and then foot off clutch and floating it in....it's the floating it out of gear which is tricky that I kinda stopped trying. I seem to do better in the low gears when I try but still inconsistent...

As for accidentally hitting the clutch pedal instead of the brake pedal. I can't see how that's possible really. My foot only has to move a few inches over from accelerator to brake pedal...I would have to kinda contort my body to reach way over with my right foot to press the clutch even if it was lowered an inch or two ...Hell I'd be squashing my left foot in between the clutch and floor if I tried to brake using the clutch pedal.....

Having the the clutch pedal at the height it is is only mildly awkward, perhaps, it's just more annoying than it is uncomfortable....I kinda like to sit more in a "Command" position than seat back and low "Ghetto" style...so when I'm in my command position, i have to raise my leg up more to clutch...so I mostly try for an in between seating style.. I will often find myself moving my seating position to more of a Command position when in stop and go traffic. If that clutch pedal was a bit lower I wouldn't really have to mess with my seat (and changing my telescope steering wheel)

And I do not want an automatic. No Thank you. I don't believe trucks are meant to be automatics...it's sad...cause the trend is headed that way...easier to fill that so called driver shortage perhaps...