Abstract: Truck apparatus for skate and skateboard devices including an elongated kingpin, means for affixing the upper end of the kingpin to the bottom of a load carrying platform at a selected angle and having a member disposed midway along the length of the kingpin and a friction surface and stop means, a wheel axle carriage assembly pivotally affixed to the lower end of the kingpin and adapted to rotate about the axis of the kingpin and having a second friction surface and stop lugs, a resilient drag sleeve and turn restoring element compressively disposed between the first and second friction surfaces, and a lock nut for selectively urging the carriage assembly toward the mid-portioned member so as to compress the drag sleeve between the first and second friction surfaces with a predetermined compression force such that the carriage assembly may be resistively and partially resiliently rotated about the axis of the kingpin within a range determined by the interaction of the stop lugs and the stop means and with a