Patent ID: 6595330
Filing Date: 2003-07-22
Classification: B66F

Abstract:
A personnel work platform (PWP) control system for use with a boom-type vehicle to which a personnel work platform is selectively mounted, wherein the boom-type vehicle includes a vehicle control system and a set of operating components, including a frame leveling arrangement for leveling the boom-type vehicle relative to the ground and an extendible boom, that operate in a first mode during normal operation, the PWP control system comprising:a controller interconnected with the vehicle control system of the boom-type vehicle and the set of operating components; a PWP system actuator switch interconnected with the controller, wherein actvation of the PWP system actuator activates the controller such that the controller interacts with the operating components to operate the operating components in a second, PWP mode of operation; and a shut-off switch located adjacent to the personnel work platform and interconnected to the controller, wherein when the operating components are operating in the second, PWP mode of operation, the activation of the shut-off switch prevents further operation of the extendible boom.