Do you guys get blisters on your hands?

Yeah..I'm starting to feel the effects of jammed fingers for so long.

 

Hope it's not from grinding gears! That shift knob can vibrate something awful until you learn to float-em. In case you didn't know that, there should be no vibrations at all on the shift knob... smooth as silk, right?

 

Yeah we call that Armstrong steering.

 

I learned to drive in a '77 KW cabover and a '73 KW w900. Both had no power steering pulling a cattle pot and learning to back up to a chute on sale day. You learn pretty quick when everyone is watching. O' yeah learned to change tires and fix flats at the same time. I got callouses and my knuckles were red at first from him slapping them a couple of times with a stick when I grinded gears. I went to Poor Boy's school of truck driving, it was a one on one lesson.

 

you guys must have girly hands. because all the years i drove a truck without power steering i never got blisters. im just saying. and i drove some roadway junk over the years.

 

Blisters ????

I won't go into detail. But I've been complemented on how soft my hands are.

Are you sure you're driving a truck?

 

That's because you don't remember because your getting old. Driving that Roadway junk I know your hearing is gone know goes your memory.

 

This has to be one of the funnier threads....thanks for the laughs.....

 

put a spinner on your wheel

 

Yeah. And break your wrist on it if you don't get one of Washington State's famous tickets for it.

I figured it wouldn't take long for the "up hill both ways" stories to start.

As I said above, I reacted to the chemicals in the steering wheel itself. It had nothing to do with being a sissy. Why can't some of you just answer the question without insulting new people? Do you really wonder why you don't get respect from them?