Abstract: A braking arrangement for vehicles having a "dead man" brake, and which includes means for rendering the dead man brake ineffective during a particular mode of operation. A three-position brake control handle is pivotally mounted on the stationary structure of the vehicle, and includes cam means in camming relation to cam follower means carried by an actuator rod. In the "transport" position of the control handle manual pressure is continuously applied to the handle, the camming engagement of the handle with the cam follower means moving the actuator rod to a position in which the brake shoe is moved against a spring out of engagement with the brake drum. If manual pressure is released from the brake control handle when in "transport" position, the handle is automatically moved by the spring to the "dead man" position in which the spring causes the brake shoe to be moved into braking engagement with the brake drum.