stagedriver:
Iveco automatics will have the following big buttons on the dash:D
N
R
And if you hold down the D or the R it gives you the same as Dm or Rm in the others.
Then there’s the ‘telligent’ preselective boxes in some Mercs that are another different thing but maybe you should leave crossing that bridge until you come to it!
eagerbeaver:
Not keen on patent mate. A bit shiny for me. I prefer white slingbacks with matching handbag.
So it was you in our yard a few weeks ago lol 
Guilty Trunks! My missus went mad when I got home. She was late for bingo;wont go anywhere without slingbacks on and an ill-fitting bra.
Oh crap…she’s just come in. How do you edit this bloody thing…ow…help!!!
coaster:
Not sure how to operate them …Am i right in thinking that you leave it in park, start engine, put it into drive… then release handbrake as you rev up to move off
when stopping you come to a halt at say traffic lights … handbrake on, leave in drive
when parking up its as above but put into park before turning engine off.
Am i wrong?
Just one thing. There is no Park on most Automatic trucks. It’s not a regular Automatic box with a torque converter like what you get in a car. It’s classed as an Automated Manual Transmission. It’s basically a regular box with lots of trickery bolted on to change gear for you.
Some trucks do have those old type of autos though, refuse trucks for example.
Personally I knock it into neutral when stationary as it saves the clutch. In fact, on Merc trucks it knocks it into neutral automatically after a few minutes if you leave it in gear.
Just one thing. There is no Park on most Automatic trucks. It’s not a regular Automatic box with a torque converter like what you get in a car. It’s classed as an Automated Manual Transmission. It’s basically a regular box with lots of trickery bolted on to change gear for you.
Some trucks do have those old type of autos though, refuse trucks for example.
This^^^
newmercman:
Just one thing. There is no Park on most Automatic trucks. It’s not a regular Automatic box with a torque converter like what you get in a car. It’s classed as an Automated Manual Transmission. It’s basically a regular box with lots of trickery bolted on to change gear for you.
Some trucks do have those old type of autos though, refuse trucks for example.
This^^^
+1
Mercs also have eco roll mode, where the auto box will coast whenever it gets a chance, which is usually when you are overtaking, meaning the cruise switches to eco, speeds eventually drops to 54, and whatever you were overtaking starts pulling away again, then the box kicks back in with a gear and revs it up to catch up to where it was again.
Very frustrating, until you turn it off.
Last one I had had PPC (predictive power control), which eases off the cruise as you start to descend a hill, and also eases off again as you near the summit of a hill too. Controlled by geo location (gps) system so it knows where the hills are.