Do you hold the steering wheel with 1 hand or 2 when driving?

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  1. buddyd157

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    1 almost all the time.

    2 takes such an incredibly light touch, I think it's more fatiguing. Of course, most drivers in trucks (and 4-wheelers) who 2 hand, based on how much they move around in the lane, aren't driving by feedback, but by position. It's much harder to feel the feedback through the wheel using both hands. You rarely see a two-hander with the steering making the almost constant minor corrections based on feel.
     
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    One ….. sometimes just a knee.
     
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    I drive left hand at 9, right on the shifter
     
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    Don't do the shifter. Carpal tunnel taught me that. It's just not good for you, all that constant vibration.
     
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    Have carpal tunnel something fierce already from my years of running a metal snips and holding a hammer.
     
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    A high speed steer tire blowout will cure you of not using both hands on the wheel, for a few weeks anyways lol.
     
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    None. I let Jesus take the wheel. :angel12:
     
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    Don’t run Chinese steers will prevent that. :rolleyes: