Suicide knob?

Driverless trucks are coming. They already let Swift trucks on the highways.

 

Years ago we called them sissy knobs!...lol!
I had a 78 cabover KW with air assist...we thought it was the deal back then.

 

But if you get a steering wheel like that, you also have to get a La Cucaracha horn and those Sarapé window shades with the little fuzzy balls. Not sure the DOT would approve.

 

Your the only other person besides myself that has ever mentioned air-assist steering. I drove a '74 R-model Mack with that(in the 90's)...the company was going to junk it the next time the steering had to be worked on because they couldn't find parts for it anymore, and the cylinders were so worn out that the rebuild shop they used wouldn't rebuild them anymore.

 

Simple rule for my drivers - not allowed.

 

I run a Brodie on my dump. Comes in handy with some of the work I do. Probably wouldn't have one if I was strictly highway, but I'm not.

As always, misconceptions exist about their legalities, but you can run one if you want to, provided company policy allows them. Since I am my own employer, I have given myself the green light to run one.

I run an Edson Brodie, but they aren't cheap, as they're actually made for marine use. My Kenworth is older, and the clamp/clip just fits around my wheel. Might not work on some newer wheels that are fatter.

 

BOOM! Laid it down!

Use some Windex on the wheel - makes it sticky (unless you have gross and greasy, chicken fat stained, hands.) And you can palm steer it all day.

Bo needs a front crank engine..... You want something broken? Speaking of a thumb? Let that bar get the transmission to catch - and hard - break your wrist, pop your shoulder out of joint THEN swing around to bust you in the teeth and throw you in the dirt......

Never lived it, but it doesn't seem like a pic-a-nic, Boo-Boo.