I liked my old 13 speed road ranger. Why more gears the bigger the load & taller the hill the more gears I would use. A diesel will pull harder but has a lot smaller power range then a gas engine. RPM on a diesel only goes up to around 3,000 where gas 6,000+.
Two speed rear end, I had one go into neutral & we stopped about 50' from the top of a very long hill, not fun the only thing that would hold it is my foot brake. After a while no one came by so very slow I backed back down that long very long hill. No one to chock a wheel but also no one behind me all the way down. Thank goodness for no traffic. Only good thing was that I had a bob truck with a 22' flat bed. Don't know what I would have done if I would have had a trailer. I am good at backing up, but not a mile or more. Never liked a two speed after that.
