The Parting Shift: The Ultimate Twin Stick Transmission Compilation Video


The Parting Shift: The Ultimate Twin Stick Transmission Compilation Video

We have showed you guys jamming gears in old twin stick equipped big rigs before but we haven’t showed you this epic compilation video before which shows a bunch of different drivers knocking through the gears using both hands, feet, and dexterity we’re not sure we have! Talk about an art form, twin-stick transmissions used to end many trucking careers before they started because learning and using one is no easy feat! From remembering where all the gears are themselves to knowing what gear or range that each particular stick is in between gear changes, we have to imagine that there was a pretty steep learning curve for new drivers.

Technology has rendered the multi-stick transmission obsolete in today’s world due to more powerful engines and boxes that have enough ratios in them to keep everyone happy among other things, but for collectors of old big rigs they are very much alive and well. The video below shows these drivers in action, and they certainly are busy. Note that the video begins with a guy in a pickup truck. That truck has a Detroit Diesel in it and a multi-stick manual trans, which is pretty awesome and you can find more videos of his driving it down the road on YouTube.

When you watch this video think about how exhausted you’d be as a short haul driver doing this over and over again for 10-12 hours a day, five or six days a week. You are seeing two minutes of what some men did for a lifetime.

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE THIS VERY COOL TWIN STICK TRANSMISSION COMPILATION VIDEO!

 


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3 thoughts on “The Parting Shift: The Ultimate Twin Stick Transmission Compilation Video

  1. Larry J Thornton

    Thot I was in heaven, as a 20-something, getting in a ’62 Mack B-model, 5X3. THAT didn’t last long.

  2. Ogrebonz

    Drove an R model Mack with a 5 and 4. Certainly kept me busy. Hey, that’s how to keep kids from texting while driving!

  3. Gil Baker

    Grew up watching my dad row those gears, damn he made it look so easy. I tried to shift a 10 wheel grain truck with a spicer 4×4… made it but it wasn’t pretty !

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