Recently my nuts and bolts discussion with pumper Greg Posch, owner of Tri-County Septic in Holdingford, Minn., turned to the automatic versus manual transmission debate. Posch, featured in this issue (“Man of Steel’’), was once a die-hard gear shifter who would never consider a truck with auto shift. In buying and rebuilding vacuum trucks over two decades, Posch wouldn’t take a second glance at an automatic truck, no matter how clean its condition, how low its miles or how tempting its price.That all changed when he bought a used Ford L8000 a few years ago, choosing the great deal despite
