Abstract: Apparatus for balancing loading in a direct drive transmission in which the power input to the transmission is divided between and among intermediate drive shafts and delivered to the output of the transmission, and wherein balancing mechanisms are in constant contact with, and senses the forces on, the intermediate shafts resulting from the delivery of power from the input to the intermediate shafts, and balances those forces among the intermediate shafts to deliver optimum power to the transmission output.