cuttin edge
Senior Member
Went in to work for the day yesterday. I needed my Mauldin grader and a rubber track mini, so I grabbed the Bobcat E42. It was a solo mission, and things won't really get going until the spring weight restrictions lift next month. Our crew uses an M2 Freight shaker tandem dump truck that hauls my grader and a roller on a tri axle tag along. The trailer was still parked in the winter lineup, and hadn't been used since November. The big float was gone out, but I noticed last years purchase another M2 with the roll off box was hooked to it's tag along, so I grabbed it. So I dropped the air ramps, and loaded the mini and the grader. Well..... I know they have been around for years, and even a lot of highway trucks have them now, but this thing has an automatic transmission. I'm 49,and I have been around trucks all my life. Been driving since I was 14. This was the strangest thing I had ever driven. I must have reached for the imaginary clutch and shifter a hundred times. Far out.