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<p>[QUOTE="Big Duker, post: 4295787, member: 10588"]That is a skill in either one. Don't do it and wind up on runaway truck ramp if you're lucky and bottom of gulch if not. And just because you are in a manual you can't downshift any better once you have gone over what a gear will take. The Volvo will always let you go down one and then downshift itself as long as you don't hit the brakes. With #3 jakes and auto down shift you can get off freeway and it will go right down to light and you just lightly apply brakes to stop. I came from an 18 and never thought I would want another auto as I had driven some yrs before. But I've got 14 months and about 84,000 miles in Volvo and am a big believer in theirs. Long haul I might want the 18 again. But there's no money OTR like tanker money I've seen and be home every night.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Big Duker, post: 4295787, member: 10588"]That is a skill in either one. Don't do it and wind up on runaway truck ramp if you're lucky and bottom of gulch if not. And just because you are in a manual you can't downshift any better once you have gone over what a gear will take. The Volvo will always let you go down one and then downshift itself as long as you don't hit the brakes. With #3 jakes and auto down shift you can get off freeway and it will go right down to light and you just lightly apply brakes to stop. I came from an 18 and never thought I would want another auto as I had driven some yrs before. But I've got 14 months and about 84,000 miles in Volvo and am a big believer in theirs. Long haul I might want the 18 again. But there's no money OTR like tanker money I've seen and be home every night.[/QUOTE]
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