Are you telling me you didn’t do a risk assessment first, and that you took it out with no preliminary training? 
Wtf is H&S coming to man.?..the job’s rubber ducked.
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Eh? Whadysay?
We still had those for some of our fleet about 3 years ago. That’s what I started on. Kinda wierd but ok. The reason I got told was apparently they are a bit better in rough farm conditions.
I got in an Iveco 3 tonne van the other day which had been abandoned in my way in the yard. It had an automated ‘box, which I was unable to get in gear because I didn’t know that you had to press the brake pedal to select drive.
Thing is these days they make things so complicated when there’s no need.
Like Renault you have select drive then twist it back for reverse. I never knew that felt like at idiot when I had to ask someone where’s reverse
Think yourself lucky, I had a day in one last year and only realised that I had no idea where reverse was after I’d picked a gap in the traffic and slewed across the road in preparation of a reverse into a tight farm gate!
obviously the worlds supply of traffic then arrived as I’m sat there across two lanes revving in vain!
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Not gearbox related But drivers should be given some sort of training familiarisation on trucks. As in what all gadgets buttons do etc not just a driving assesment.
Esp if your company buys new ones. As where worked few years ago we got some new ones. With adaptive cruise control radar sensor braking thing.
Never had one but heard about eco roll on some trucks etc.
Nobody ever shown me what it all does how it works etc.
Been a case of pressing buttons see what happens or watch you tube videos
How does the song go, “everyone’s gotta learn sometime”. Personally, I would have just persisted getting experience of that type of box. I have about 30 years ago driven something Foden related around the yard as a shunter. Double Clutching etc. If you have no experience, go to a local driving school as ask them to give you an hour on a truck with those boxes.