Entering the Driver Side

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Warning: Wet or dirty shoe soles greatly increase the chance of slipping or falling. If your soles are wet or dirty, be especially careful when climbing onto, or down from, the back-of-cab area.

Always maintain three-point contact with the back-of-cab access supports while entering and exiting the back-of-cab area. Three-point contact means both feet and one hand, or both hands and one foot, on the grab handles, steps, and deck plates. Other areas are not meant to support back-of-cab access, and grabbing or stepping in the wrong place could lead to a fall, and personal injury.

Be careful not to get hands or feet tangled in hoses or other back-of-cab equipment. Carelessness could cause a person to trip and fall, with possible injury.

When entering the cab from the driver side, use the grab handle and access steps as follows:

  1. Open the driver-side door and place anything that you are carrying in the cab.
  2. Using both hands, grasp the grab handle that is on the B-pillar, or use your left hand on the integral door lower grab handle. See Fig.. Reach up as far as is comfortable.

    1. Steering Wheel

    2. B-Pillar Grab Handle

    3. Bottom Step

    4. Top Step

    5. Integral Door Lower Grab Handle

    Fig. 1, Driver-Side Steps and Grab Handle

  3. Place your right foot on the bottom step, and pull yourself up. Move your left hand to the integral door upper grab handle.
  4. Place your left foot on the top step.
  5. Grasp the steering wheel with your left hand, and step up.
  6. Step into the cab with your right foot first, and grasp the steering wheel with your right hand.
Note:
Parent topic: Grab Handles and Access Steps
Document Number: 0000116679
Manual Publication Date: 2025-02-11
Topic Publication Date: 2024-05-06