Patent ID: 7281602

Claim:
A device for controlling a load-carrying vehicle when dumping or loading a load-carrying platform of the vehicle, the device installed in a load-carrying vehicle having a dumping load-carrying platform, said device comprising a maneuvering organ configured to be arranged in a cabin of the load-carrying vehicle for hand maneuvering by a driver, and a control unit operatively coupled to the maneuvering organ, to a brake of the load-carrying vehicle and to a gearbox of the load-carrying vehicle, so that the device, when the maneuvering organ is activated, activates the brake and institutes a neutral position in the gearbox and a sensor connected to the control unit for sensing the speed of the vehicle with the purpose of maintaining the brake in a non-active position and a present gear in the gearbox, despite an activation of the maneuvering organ when a speed of the vehicle exceeds a predetermined speed.