Harry Monk:
My two penn’orth, love the Volvo I-shift gearbox, have driven a few automatic Dafs and thought the auto box was terrible, the clutch was either in or out with nothing in between.
The Volvo Ishift is a true Powershift Gearbox whereas the DAF is an Electronically controlled Mechanical box - well up until the 2011 model we stripped down. The Electronics can process information in 1000th of a second but the response time of a Mechanical system is in the region of 1/2 to 3/4 of a second and as you know a lot can happen at even 30mph in half a second.
waddy640:
truckman20:
i jumped into a lorry once and then went straight back into transport and told them i could not drive it,when they asked why i replied that it had funny winding things on the door and where was the electric window switch,their reply was not nice,basically telling me where to go [while laughing of course]i mean imagine that,having to wind my window up and down,i was quite stressed at the end of the day
I used to drive MAN’s in the 90’s and they had electric on the nearside and manual on the offside.
i remember that,bloody daft,should have been the other way round
I wish 
I’d give anything for a auto or even an EPS box instead of the obsolete box of gears we have to put up with over here.