Front tire blowout! Old hands critique please!!

Haven't heard the term "wrist buster" in a lotta years. I was loaded light in W VA hills yesterday and started sliding into a jack knife going down hill at about 25 - 30MPH. Just let up on the brakes, tap the trailer valve and try to pull through it. Straightened right back up, no problem.

 

Wrist Busters is for those to new to know how to use the bottom of your palm to steer and to back! That POS is going to be in your way when you go into a skid and you start to look like an 8 armed monkey at a banana picking contest trying to maintain control when that stupid knob wacks you in the wrist,elbow or hand making you forget for an instant why your arms were flying all around maintaining control of that beast!

Yep, they look Kewl on a show truck that's trailered to the show but they are totally worthless for anything other that looks! I'll race anyone with a knob in a backing contest and see who wins! If you can't do it with your hand It makes me wonder what else you have to have in there! ROFLMAO!

I once drove for CTI for a whole week and all 3 of those Petes had them on the steering wheel when I got in but they were NOT there when I pulled out of the yard here in Springfield! They "took offense" when they asked where they went and I told them the dumpster! Talk about getting POed! You have to know CTI is a SLIP SEAT operation or was in 2003 and I thought the previous drivers were leaving them on the wheel! I figured that if they wanted those POS things and paid that amount of stupid money for them they would remember to take them with them when they got out of the truck! But it didn't matter when I told dispatch to bring me back as I didn't drive 20 hours a day and falsify my logs for a whole .32 a mile!

 

You might have to settle for a lot lizard collection device that was once used as a street sweeper. You have to take you entertainment how ever it is presented to you.

 

I think the suicide knobs are perfect, on a CAT 992! Do what I use to do when I slip seated, re install the wrist buster up side down when you're done.

 

Nope if you do that take it with you! If I get in that truck it's a gonner! It's still in the way of your grip.

Whats a Kat 992 anyway? An earth mover or construction equipment? That's a whole different type of driving. 30 MPH max in a hole in the earth or construction zone really isn't close to 60MPH+ in traffic!

Even an Armstrong system (no power steering) can be steered with the hands. That knob will really help to make that wheel get gouged out from all the strain put on that plastic/fiberglass wheel when tying to turn it when sitting still!

Another thing with a knob is it forces you to keep that hand and arm in the same place all day as most people I see using them never seem to let it go! It's a good thing to keep moving your hands around the wheel . The 10 and 2 method is just fine for city driving but after an hour, movement is what your body needs! I can imagine a driver who is so used to holding that baby toy strapped to the wheel who moved his hand to a different position to stretch his arm all of a sudden get into a situation where he needed to make some fast and proper steering wheel corrections loose that second or to finding that stupid piece of crapola that he causes himself to totally loose all control he could have had just staying on the wheel where he was!

Sorry, but I feel that they should be forbidden from a road worthy or DOT governed truck. And that's MHO after so many years on the road.

 

A Cat 992 is a huge front end loader that has a bucket about the same size as an apartment.

I don't like the Knob either so if it a company installed suicide knob instead of taking it out of the truck and risk being called a thief, install it under the wheel so at least they will have to do some work to put it back on.

 

Steer axle blow outs, are not the issue they used to be, with the advent of "POWER STEERING" In the "Old Days" it was usually a disaster! A right blow out usually meant an immediate right turn, into what ever was in your path, almost never having a good outcome! (Unless both hands were on the wheel and the opposite foot ready to come to the dash for leverage! LOL)

 

Idiot Knobs ???? I thought they were Illegal.....If not they should be!

 

They are, and for the reason that they will severly injure you. Only allowed on construction and farm equipment.

 

And for sale at every truck stop in America....Go figure. Kinda like being a Viagra salesman at a graveyard.