Diesel vs gas for truck campers?
Have posted a few questios phere on the truck camper forum asking for help in down sizing to a TC and thanks for the help so far, I have been going over the weights of the TC's that we have looked at...
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HMS Beagle wrote:
^^ This thinking is very out of date. None of the big three offer a manual anymore for good reasons, one of which is durability. Most urban heavy trucks have automatics these days, for the same reasons.
The Allison was the first (American) transmission to try to emulate some of the utility of a manual, and everyone has gotten much better at it since.
If you haven't driven one of the automatics in a new truck (last 4-5 years) you really can't appreciate how far they have come. I can think of no advantage to an automatic over the Ford 6R140 that I now drive.
I escort oversize loads and the company I escort for has switched all their tractors to automatic transmissions. I have escorted loads in excess of 100,000 lbs.!!
