New job!!! Back steering some fun stuff.

Looks easy to me. Maybe another model or you didn't find the button?

Well there ya go….

It’s the first k200 iv driven and can’t say I seen that switch so maybe wasn’t optioned on this 1….

But then again I also didn’t look so…… lol

That ACE system looks pretty cumbersome, and one of the handgrip points is the step you've just put you size 12 mude encrusted boots on.

Ive lost count of the K200s Ive driven and I'm yet to see one with that system, bearing in mind that most of the ones Ive driven have been one fleet.

I was going to ask if that system was on all K200 but I think I know the answer to that already. It should be standard in my opinion. OH&S must love the ones with out it. I can see a lot of injury claims happening over time.

That system works fine on the showroom floor, BUT I have to wonder how it will work after 2 or 3 years of being packed with sand, mud,snow, and ice?????

How come other truck manufacturers find more simple and uncomplicated solutions?

I think this system (not the only fold out staircase on the market) is a result of modern times.

Firstly most drivers are now just that, drivers. The days of drivers loading, tying down with ropes and chains then heaving up a 75kg roll of canvas to spend an hour spreading and tying that as well - before hopping in to drive off into the night - and doing the reverse at the other end are gone. Unfortunately their atrocious eating habits have not changed and there is so much more calorific crap available at truck stops. I would put big money on the average driver's weight being at least 25% more than it was back in the day.

The follow on from that is most blokes can not climb like a chimpanzee any more and the trucks seem to have got higher. For all the various modern steps and rails you can not get away from the fact it takes some sort of vertical climb to get into most trucks.

I think they are looking over their shoulders at the ever increasing Workplace Safety Laws and not just catering for obese wooses coming out of their air-conditioned waiting room to don their white gloves to attend the steering wheel.

Lang

Some Euro cranes ,the whole cab lowers down to ground level,and the driver simply steps in......no possibility of a fall .............something else I noticed,Im having lots of trouble getting into my old Leyland Harrier,knees dont bend the extra five degrees ......and the Leyland had one of the lowest forward entry cabs ......I doubt I could get into a yank style cab over ,at all......dont intend try.

Here is the Freightliner system. Leave in with ladder for fit blokes, run out with steps for fat blokes.