Why are the steering wheels of buses/trucks/lorries more or less angled horizontally instead of the angle seen in cars?

Question

Why are the steering wheels of buses/trucks/lorries more or less angled horizontally instead of the angle seen in cars?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

These drivers are sitting nearly directly above the steering box because of the tall nature of the vehicles and their forward cabs.

In passenger vehicles we sit both behind and above the steering box.

The steering column points to where the box lands at the front axle, imagine it as a line segment with one end being the steering wheel and the other being the box on the axle.