TRAVELING VEHICLE

A traveling vehicle includes a pair of left and right drive wheels (3), a drive unit (21, 22) for providing driving force to the drive wheels (3), a drive wheel operation unit (8) having a forward speed position, a neutral position, a reverse speed position and a parking position, a position detector (92) for detecting the parking position of the drive wheel operation unit (8), a parking brake (23) configured to brake the drive wheels (3) under an operative state thereof, a rotation detector (90) for detecting a predetermined state from a stopped state to a predetermined rotational speed of the drive wheels (3) and a control unit (6C) configured to render the parking brake (23) into the operative state on a condition including detection of the parking position by the position detector (92) and detection of the predetermined state by the rotation detector (90).