Yeah you can imagine hank ■■■■■■■ off his twin splitter as he had to drive everywhere in first gear as he couldn’t change gear due to having two gear levers that come up to two inches off the roof and his seat base is so low it’s bolted directly to the floor. 
old iron I drove 2 stick lol
Bking:
Was a bloody disaster,designed for “drivers” who couldnt quite manage a 9 speed crash box,really the fore runner of the garbage “autos” we have today.
All internal clutch and inertia springs, Only lasted for 5 years then Eaton realised it was a pile of crap.
Think you’ll find they stopped making them because of noise levels legislation that Europe brought in and Eaton couldn’t get them quiet enough, would sooner have a twin splitter than the auto crap they fit in today’s trucks
I remember the first one I ever drove. Not only was it my first twin split, but my first ever time driving an artic after passing my test some ten years earlier as a TM.
I had signed up with an agency and they sent me to a firm in Worcester with a 6pm start and a straight run to Runcorn and back. I hung around drinking coffee for an hour or so and then got called into the office. “I suppose you have never driven an Eaton twin splitter before,” he said. I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about so I agreed with him. He called someone in from the yard and told him to show me. It turned out that he was the company trainer and good at his job, because by the time I was negotiating Runcorn Bridge, while trying to read the sketch map they gave me, I was a total convert from the 4 over 4 box I had taken my test on.
I drove the ancient ERF sheds that Sainsbury’s ran from Droitwich and the more modern ones that Blake’s at Alcester operated. They used to get drivers coming back to the yard, saying that the bos was broken because they couldn’t get it out of low ratio. You would hear them grating and clanging as they tried.
Loved reading your stories on the other thread Robert and you are so right with what you say.
I loved that gearbox and used it on ERF’'s
Seddon Atkinson and on a MAN.
Yes it took a little while to master it especially if you were not trained properly but once mastered it was a treat to use.
Double de clutching is almost a thing of the past as well.
Glad I drove proper trucks…
albion1971:
Loved reading your stories on the other thread Robert and you are so right with what you say.
I loved that gearbox and used it on ERF’'s
Seddon Atkinson and on a MAN.
Yes it took a little while to master it especially if you were not trained properly but once mastered it was a treat to use.
Double de clutching is almost a thing of the past as well.
Glad I drove proper trucks…
Thank you! Like you, I was given no training whatsoever on them so I had to learn the hard way. Mind you, you don’t forget the hard way! 
Robert
I’m feeling a bit inadequate now. Drove 12 speed Foden (properly), Road Ranger etc, but no TS. I’ll have to learn on paper and then come back with some bull s**t about how I saved a brand new TS by just missing the ferry. 