at the wheel
behind the wheel

Maybe more time at the wheel will change my mind.

He could just about make out the figure at the wheel.

Step two, of course, was to figure out who had actually been at the wheel.

I sat down at the wheel and began to back the car.

He turned on some music, and took his place at the wheel.

They just had time to see the figure of the man at the wheel.

What a feeling of power to be back at the wheel again!

She had been at the wheel for nearly six hours.

He had been at the wheel for over seven hours.

But it had never happened, with either one of us at the wheel, until tonight.