How do I drive with power steering?

listen if it doesn't work out for you, operating a train may be your best option.

 

That an option if he has a degree, and able to lift 80lbs It is also demanding if not more than trucking. I do have a cousin who on with Norfolk Southern He runs between Atlanta and Greenville SC mostly. He not allowed any other route as an engineer but can as a Conductor till qualified on them

 

I have five overall suggestions for anyone with steering issues or lane control issues:

1. Grip - your grip should not be "white knuckles". Think holding a golf club like Ben Hogan taught, "Hold it like you are holding a living sparrow and you don't want to crush it".

2. Arm relaxation - one of the biggest problems for any driver is having tension in your arms. If you have arm tension then you start steering with your shoulders, and that's when you starting driving YANKee Doodle style. Whenever you have tension in your arms, immediately hang your elbows straight down and feel like your arms are heavy and suspended like a suspension bridge between your relaxed hands on the steering wheel and your shoulders. Driving in this manner gives you better feel for the road.

3. Steering - it is best with the relaxed arms to steer by pulling down on one side of the steering wheel. The opposite hand should not be pushing up on the steering wheel, it should only be there as a guide.

4. Visualization - one mental trick I have for having steady lane control is to imagine that I'm floating above the lane without any truck at all, just me flying along. I visualize flying about two feet left of the center of the lane and I "see" that line I need to take. It's kind of like snow skiing when you are trying to make a big giant slalom turn, you see the line, relax, and let the edges guide you through the turn.

5. Presteering corners - at high speeds don't wait until you are in the corner to begin steering the corner. Start very slightly turning just before you get to the corner. This is a very slow turning of the wheel to initiate the turn. It will make a much smoother transition without yanking the wheel and putting a lot of outward G's on the truck. As the turn is finishing you start presteering the straightaway by slowly moving the wheel to the straight position.

 

he might have to teleport himself back to 1972
when drivers said power steering was going to make unsafe trucks
because they couldn't feel the road
God Bless power steering and automatics

 

The first truck I drove was a '74 Ford cabover. The power steering was only active if your rpm's were high. One time I started taking a city turn with low rpm's and only had Armstrong steering, had to get it out of gear and rev it up to finish the hook turn. I still remember the bug eyed driver in the station wagon waiting in the turn lane, looking up at me as my truck came closer and closer...

 

Often this type of over correcting a steering wheel is from focusing too close to the front of the vehicle. Try keeping your eyes further down the road and trusting your peripheral vision to hold you between the lines.

 

I just want to be clear... This is a serious question and not a joke, right?

 

One time at trucking camp...

 

Ok try this put you seat way up so that you can have one knee rub the bottom of the wheel, If you find you are still moving around in the lane alot put more upward force on the wheel with your knee.

 

um.... learn to drive??

if you do it in your pick up, you haven't learned to drive yet.