Those reverse parks into a parking bay uphill on an angle were a bitch.
Remember doing my test and was perfect apart from one minor mark until the last junction on an incline. Stalled it!! remained perfectly in control and swanned into the Test Centre where my tutor was head in hands as he'd seen me. Still passed with 4 minor marks so the stall only cost me 3 which i thought might have cost me more.
I've driven an automatic for 10 years now and i'm not sure if i could handle a manual again. Automatics are so easy i love them.
I passed my HGV test 10 years ago, you have to do it in a manual. I did it in a truck with a 4 over 4 gearbox. This type of box goes 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th in low range and then you flick a switch on the front of the gearstick to go into high range, so first becomes 5th, 2nd 6th and so on. Easy enough to get the hang of. Then you have the 12 speed splitter boxes, which I didn't drive, which is controlled with a button on the side of the gearbox, giving Lo and Hi in each gear. So in 1st, you start with the splitter button down, set off, flick the button, then depress the clutch, this changes into high, you then flick the button back, move the stick into second which gives 2nd Lo, then flick, clutch, 2nd Hi and do this up the box so you go from 1st to 12th.
After passing my test, I started working 2 in 4 Saturdays, so I don't drive anywhere near as much as a FT driver and nearly everything I've driven has been 12 speed auto's, I've driven manuals 5 times in 10 years, once a straight 8 Mercedes (laid out like a car, but 8 gears) two 8 speed 4 over 4 Scania and two 12 speed Scanias with splitters. I haven't driven a manual for about 4 years now and I'd struggle if we had any. The auto's are a piece of piss to drive.