I have driven a few CF 480 artic’s in the past when my 95 manual was in for service or repair and i found them alright out on
the road but pulling away or shunting about in a yard or a farm with limited space they were a bloody nightmare.
You press the throttle to go and nothing happens so you press it a bit more and wallop in comes the clutch and away you go,
there is no finesse with it, bloody awful things.
Is the rig cheap enough to covert it to manual with a secondhand ZF 16 speed manual (not a 8 speed) its not that difficult
to do or so i was told.