This week with Arlene and Jeff:
...After a few minutes, Morales stopped the vehicle, moved out of the driver's seat and motioned to Jasmine. "Your turn."
"I can't…"
"Bullshit. Push the stick in the direction you want to go. The farther you push it, the faster the crawler goes. You can set a constant speed with the little thumbwheel on the side of the joystick, but we're not going to use that today. The crawler will actually turn on its axis, but that will leave one hell of a divot when you do. Bringing the stick back to center stops the crawler. The pedal down by your feet locks the machine down. Just think emergency brake. Under normal circumstances, you don't need to press that unless you are stopped and want to lock the crawler down before getting off, or if for some reason you want to do an emergency stop."
Jasmine, tense, to put it mildly, started off at a "blinding" one-half mile per hour, but it wasn't long until she had gained confidence, although she did shake them up a couple of times by bringing the joystick back past the center before the machine had time to stop. The result was a very abrupt halt and an instant reversal of direction. "Oops," she said as the girls laughed.
A few minutes later, Jasmine brought the machine to a stop, released her belts, stood and turned to Ashley. "Your turn."
"What? No way," she exclaimed. "I wouldn't know what to do."
"Neither did I, but it's easy. Just stay away from trees. If you want to stop, bring the joystick back to center, or even turn it loose. The stick will come back to center automatically and stop the crawler."...
Have a goodun;
Roust