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I don't think that even with a steering wheel like that it would easy to drive.
 
I drove a B model Mack garbage truck one summer with no power steering. It also had aa large diameter steering wheel. If your belly was too big it rubbed the wheel. You just had to be moving to steer. At that time even my 4x4 pickup had Armstrong steering.
 
I owned a 1973 COE Freightliner that I pulled a hopper and a lowboy with and it had CENTER POINT STEERING , No
Power steering, but when moving it wasnt all that onrey to drive.
 
First otr truck I drove was a 76 4070B IH coe with center point steering. You learned to back in places on the first shot because you didn't want to have to steer it twice to do it.
 
Note the chain rear wheel drive. To change the gear ratio, you had to change the sprockets.
 
Talked with an old timer who had driven a chain drive truck for a farmer during the potato harvest. The farmer had two sticks like sledgehammer handles to put the chain back on when they came off The point was driven home by the farmers missing fingers
 
An AC Mack.
My dad had a friend who used one (with a second one for parts) at his gravel pit up through the mid-1970's. He used it every once and awhile when his equally ancient Northwest dragline would pull a really huge rock out of his gravel run- one that had been pushed there and left a few millennia ago by a melting glacier- and into the old Mack it would go. Then he would dump it along the drive back to the pit with all the other boulders (Glacial Erratics they are called) and sell them to folks who wanted a big rock in their yards to mow around.

I wanted my dad to buy those trucks, but he had no interest in reliving his early excavating years starting and driving them. Eventually, somebody did buy them and they disappeared, replaced by a 1960's Seabee-owned Cat 769 he bought at a surplus auction and drove 60 miles to get it home!
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The company I worked for leased trucks and one customer had a driver nick-named 'Gut'. His belly rubbed the steering wheel bad and we had to special order a smaller steering wheel for his truck! Mark.
 
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