Hand-over-hand steering involves which of the following actions?

• A. Pulling the steering wheel down with one hand while your other hand crosses over to pull further down.
• B. Pulling the steering wheel down with both hands in opposite directions.
• C. Keeping your hands at 12 and 6 on the wheel.
• D. Gripping only one hand on the wheel and twisting.

Answer: (A)

Hand-over-hand steering is when you guide the wheel by one hand pulling down and then the other hand crossing over to pull further down in the same direction. This lets you turn smoothly without losing contact with the wheel and helps you control the amount of steering as you rotate through the turn.

The other patterns aren’t the same technique: simply pulling with both hands in opposite directions isn’t the cross-over method, keeping your hands at the straight-ahead position describes where your hands sit rather than how you steer, and gripping with one hand and twisting is unsafe and not how you maintain control of the wheel.