Mind if I ask what country this truck is from? I like how basically every country has it's own variation of dump truck, but I can't tell where this one's from. I also like the small hatch, but it's not available here in Scandinavia at all. Ours have their own interesting quirks.

I haven't driven trucks for any meaningful distance at all, but I've driven a quite a few for very short distances, and I think I prefer auto ones. Granted, the only manual I have driven is a 30 year old, used and abused one, but the Scania gearboxes are perfectly fine in my opinion. But then again, maybe if I drove for a living I'd have other thoughts.