Bloody loved it, the fleet engineer (my boss) use to b*****k me for setting off in 2nd low
Usually did the same meself - and there was no-one to b****ck me ....
I was the boss! Could never fathom DAF's reason for fitting the 6-speed splitter box.
6 gears on a coach gave ample ratios in my opinion.
Anyway, here's one of our Plaxton-bodied MB230s, which was liveried for School Travel Service of Enfield, as we undertook a considerable amount of work for them:
I took this one down to St Etienne in Central France via Dieppe, to exchange it with, and subsequently repatriate a problematical Leyland Tiger.It ran like a dream on the autoroutes .... 'twas 6th high/low gears all the way south from the Peripherique .... with only a Wet Wet Wet tape in the player for company!