Why do many vehicles used for heavy work, like trucks, bulldozers etc. use manual transmission instead of auto?
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Easier to work on. Which kind of matters on construction sites where you’re bouncing all over uneven terrain and smashing your equipment up against earth walls or maybe pushing the equipment way harder than you would, like, a car.
That’s it.
Anyone in the comments saying “manual transmissions give better performance” or anything of the sort have been regurgitating greatly outdated info that aren’t true anymore. Basically, a modern automatic is superior to manual transmissions in terms of performance, top to bottom, from driving granny to the supermarket, to tearing ass on gravel county roads, to racing.
There was a long stretch of time where automatics lagged significantly behind, but tech has come a long, long, long way and that gap closed year by year until now the only reason to drive a manual is A) you’re thinking about fixing something that’s going to get beaten up regularly, or B) you just like the feel of manual.
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