From: JIM WIEHE (j.wiehe@sympatico.ca)
Date: Sun Mar 17 2002 - 16:20:20 PST
I thought that the reason for the auto. trans. was because todays youth
( God I feel old now ) grew up driving dads Chevy / Ford / Dodge
that had an auto. trans. and did not know how to drive a stick.
FWIW: The company that I work for has both auto and stick in their
delivery trucks that are both straight truck and tractor-trailer.
Auto. trans. are great in stop and go city traffic but I still prefer a stick.
Jim Wiehe , VA3JHW
j.wiehe@sympatico.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Strain" <kstrain@earthlink.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Automatic transmissions in M35A3
> The military has moved towards auto transmissions because they
> have lowered their strength standards and now have women driving the trucks,
> they can't turn the large manual steering trucks and shift the manual
> transmissions. Talk to anyone that drives these vehicles exclusively off
> road
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