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Eaton Fuller 10-speed

10 speedManual1960s to present

The default North American manual for two generations, in the RT and RTLO families. Five gears in two ranges, splitter on the top range, and the shift pattern most drivers over forty learned on.

Torque rating

1450-1850

pound-feet at the input

Weight

720 lb

80 lb over the lightest, which is payload

Shifting

By hand

the driver decides the gear

Maker

Eaton

What it does to fuel

Neutral. Fuel comes from what the driver does with it, which is exactly the variability automated boxes were brought in to remove.

What this type is

A driver, a clutch and a stick. Cheaper to buy, cheaper to fix, lighter, and increasingly hard to sell: the used market for manuals has thinned as fleets standardised on automated boxes and as fewer drivers can shift one.

Known issues

Clutch brake and clutch wear, and synchroniser-free shifting that punishes a driver who never learned to float. The gearbox itself is close to indestructible.

Verdict

Cheap to buy and cheap to fix, and it will cost you on resale because the pool of drivers who want one keeps shrinking.