The toxic tyrannical culture that killed Volkswagen

Agree with Chappy -- you can with minimal tools swap a clutch in your driveway, pretty simple given basic instructions and some special tools, perhaps. Not so much rebuild a transmission (reliably anyway). Even those in the UT desert where they're constantly being junkyard-trolled and tossed into ersatz recovery vehicles (so lots of exp)... plenty of home wrenches put them together wrong, and find out in the middle of Bum****, Egypt on some dune

Thanks Isaac & ETC for the skinny on autos in semis -- had wondered for a while now why mfrs hadn't used autos in long-haul commercial vehicles until just recently. The notion of controlling two gearboxes to get 80K lbs of semi up a hill... seems a skill you need some seat time to master. They are hauling a shite-tonne of weight tho