Because fewer drivers these days know how to work a stick and clutch pedal—or even care to—Mack Trucks Inc. says it is now seeing a 70% penetration rate for its mDRIVE 12-speed automated manual transmission (AMT), just one year after making the gearbox standard on its Pinnacle highway semitrucks.
DGA Consulting, a subsidiary of a Pittsburgh-area company that opened a Tempe, Ariz., office in January, immediately booked a regional piece of business: a contract to handle the civil engineering work for a $350-million transmission project in northern New Mexico.
