Old days of trucking vs. New days?

You are correct. I cut my teeth on a BC400. You better know when to let up or you'd definitely hurt the engine. It all goes back to a driver knowing his equipment. I started in 97 but I started out in a 78 International then after 5 years in that ol warhorse I proved myself worthy and the bossman put me in an 81 Freightliner. But yeah, you better be able to listen to that engine and know what it's doing. I've ran across some of these electronic drivers that don't even know what kind of engine is in the truck they're driving.

 

I don't tolerate profanity.

 

What was the car with 2 shifters?

 

The industry wasn’t soft with a bunch of pansie new breeders who have been brought up to believe they are special and entitled.
We didn’t have a bunch of clueless foreigners on work visas working for nothing either, thus driving rates into the ground.

 

Rambler American. Olds Cutlass had 3.

 

Two to Go: Rambler’s 1963-1965 Twin-Stick Transmission

 

I had a 68 H/O w a Hurst dual gate shifter but only one stick

 

COOL I had a 70 W30 with a dual gate.

 

The truth can be told, all the Rambler one was, was an overdrive unit, and the "stick" just hit a solenoid switch. I think the Olds too. I saw a Cutlass at a show once with those shifters. The owner said, it's a PITA, and just leaves it in drive,