Hiya i found this clip earlier and thought is that how we used to change gear.
go to you tube and search for …FNM turbinado…look for 5th marcha.
you see a yellow lorry cab.
john
Fair play to him, but i think I’ll stick with my i-shift thank you very much.
Hiya harry…thanks i did,nt know how to move things yet. that chap i,ll use some calories in a
days work with three gear sticks
John
Never get fat drivin that one nor this one.youtu.be/E0o1o5W_f6o
Notice he wasn’t a 20 stone Jabba the Hut lookalike, driving real lorries kept you fit, not a motor for a numtpy.
Whats the score?..3/4 speed box with mechanical splitter on dash and overdrive unit behind him?..thats only a guess by the way, anyone know?
I bet Carryfast is wetting him self with excitement watching them 
Hiya i thought maybe the dash leaver was the overdrive and the leaver behind the seat was
high/low range…looks complecated to me and i ,ve had s39 fodens and erf 13 speed fullers.
maybe it would be easy when driving it.
john
3300John:
Hiya i thought maybe the dash leaver was the overdrive and the leaver behind the seat was
high/low range…looks complecated to me and i ,ve had s39 fodens and erf 13 speed fullers.
maybe it would be easy when driving it.
john
Don’t think anything i’ve driven has been quite as cantankerous as a Foden 12 speed as fitted to mickey mouse or S39 Fodens, the lorry in the clip seems quite amenable to decent progess, or maybe the natural skill and feel of the obviously proper driver makes it appear easy when its maybe far from that.
I’d really like to learn what the gear situation is on that fine old lorry though, hope someone knows the score.
One in te dash must be high and low, the one behind him either a splitter or a twin speed axle maybe?
Looks to me more like the dashboard lever is the splitter since he sometimes changes its position using the clutch, without changing gear and sometimes moves it when changing gear. The rearmost lever seems to be an overdrive?
Yeah that sounds better, one on the dash is the splitter, the rear most might be high and low? Noticed there arnt any syncros on the gearbox too, which means he’ll probably be double de clutching too.
Imagine if trucks were like that nowadays, there’d be no new drivers on the road! Just a load of mashed up cogs from knackered gearboxes lol
I remember when i drove the old leyland roadtrain…full crash box i was on containers, on a lucky occasion i got back to the yard mid week about 7pm , an agency driver came over to me asking for directions for Liverpool docks on a night trunk… i droppep my trailer and herd this chap set off out the yard…crunch…crunch…a load of swearing turned it round brought it back in the yard arms waving its f…d this gearbox is shot pile of crap , i did try explaining to him he walked off with teddy under his arm… new breed of trucks never been so easy… 
nice one
Roadtrains had Spicer boxes horrid things
compared to Fullers
on my old F10 the splitter was on the dash, i drove it for 3 or 4 weeks without realising what it was for 