18 minutes ago, scorecard said:

- How is driving a manual transmission vehicle a 'well paying job"? 

- Reducing manual transmission vehicles "well paying jobs about to be stripped out." How's that? 

 

He just wanted his woke rhetoric added to the thread, and couldn't be bothered to read the actual topic at hand

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

LOL. your Transit van ain't anywhere near as "huge" as a Scammel truck. Nobody messes with one of those. Double declutch, but would go just about anywhere.

LOL, good for you. I was driving a Scamel (illegally) at age 17. 

23 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I think that will go right over their heads.

 

BTW I drove manual almost all by driving life and I get the 6 th booster quip. I never had a booster myself.

OK, I passed my test in a manual gearbox Ford Anglia back in 1967, and have driven many other vehicles since, including a Bristol 60-seater crash-gearbox bus.

Please explain what a "booster" is --- 6th, or other.

One thing I will definitively give a miss to is a so called "self driving" car

On 3/6/2024 at 12:36 PM, cooked said:

van with a clapped out diesel engine belching clouds of fumes

You must have been living in Thailand then actually it's no laughing matter I read 10 million Thais have respiratory problems and a good start to improving that situation would be to get all those pickups and lorries I see belching out clouds of black smoke off the road.