Patent attributes
A traveling vehicle includes a pair of left and right drive wheels, a drive unit for providing driving force to the drive wheels, a drive wheel operation unit having a forward speed position, a neutral position, a reverse speed position and a parking position, a position detector for detecting the parking position of the drive wheel operation unit, a parking brake configured to brake the drive wheels under an operative state thereof, a rotation detector for detecting a predetermined state from a stopped state to a predetermined rotational speed of the drive wheels and a control unit configured to render the parking brake into the operative state on a condition including detection of the parking position by the position detector and detection of the predetermined state by the rotation detector.