A quick-release steering wheel for a work vehicle is configured to engage
with and quickly release from one or more steering posts in an operator
compartment of a vehicle. The operator compartment has two operator
stations, each station having a steering post to which the steering wheel
can be quickly and releasably attached. In use, the operator can pivot
the operator seat in the operator compartment to face one or another of
the two steering stations. The operator can quickly move the steering
wheel from one operator station to the other without tools by depressing
a spring-loaded pin. By removing the wheel from one station and moving it
to the other, the operator makes additional room into which he can pivot
or slide the seat. This arrangement permits the operator compartment to
be made smaller and more compact by positioning the two steering posts
and operator stations closer together.