SuperTrucker 'Fingerless' Gloves!

Flat-bedders wear gloves because it keeps the steering wheel clean.

 

I work with a guy who wears them. He also has a suicide knob on his steering wheel. We drive a concrete truck! He drove for Willis Shaw for 1 year and some other company for a couple of months. He (thinks) he's a supertrucker. He gives me crap all the time now that he knows I applied for Maverick. He keeps telling me how I'm a young pup and I don't know anything and that he could drive circles around me. He has been there about six months longer than me. I started out in a piece of crap international and within 5 months of starting I got put in a brand new sterling. He didn't talk to me for 3 weeks, he had more seniority and was next in line for a new truck but the boss knows how he drives. Kind of a funny ordeal.lol

 

However, that was an attempt at a humorous insult to flat-bedders, implying that their hands are so dirty the steering wheel would remain cleaner if they donned gloves prior to driving.

 

Eh, I've used them in the past. Personally I did'nt tend to use it while driving, but can see how many would.(I'd loosen it, and twist it out of the way while driving) You're better off not having one at all if doing so makes you use it while moving forward.
Legality? Dunno for sure on that one either. I've HEARD they're illegal often enough that I figure there's likely truth behind it. All in all? Best not to bother with em.
The fingerless gloves thing though..... Never seemed like anything but an affectation... Going for the toughguy supertrucker look. May be I'm missing something there. lol

 

I've enjoyed reading this thread as I'm sitting here at the Love's in Burley ID on Easter Sunday waiting to pick up a load tonight that has to be in Albuquerque tomorrow (another day, another fifty cents). I had to put my two cents in (guess that makes today's take only forty eight cents -- oh well). I wear fingerless gloves to drive -- but only during the summer when we use the air conditioning. I like to keep cool so I will run the air, but it makes my knuckles and fingers very cold, so I use the fingerless gloves to protect my knuckles and fingers from the cold air. I don't think they look 'cool', I actually think I look like a dweeb wearing them, but since they keep my hands comfortable, I risk the laughter from you 'real' supertruckers and wear them. As for the suicide knobs. My co-driver had one when I came out here and I've learned to live with it. It comes in very handy when backing into tight situations. I have shorter arms than many of you guys out there, and even thought the steering wheels are smaller than they used to be, it takes alot for me to hand over hand in the 10 and 2 position when it is necessary. The suicide knob makes it much easier. It is also a good change of pace while cruising, I can rest my hand on it while keeping the other hand on the wheel, and if an emergency comes along (blown steer tire for example), I can grasp the wheel more quickly than if I didn't have it. I don't steer with it while going down the road as it tends to be too 'loose' to have good control. As for the belt buckles and other things -- I say to each his own. I agree with another poster that I'd rather see the 'super trucker outfit' than those fat guys with their bellies hanging out below the bottom of their t-shirt, flip flops with feet that look like they're straight out of a foot disease textbook and the short shorts that flap in the breeze and get stuck up in there crack -- well you unfortunately get the picture. If you don't get the picture, hang out around the fuel island for a short time and it will become all too clear.

 

No one mentioned the ###-less chaps some are so fond of wearing..