of the invention control device 200 is adapted to be selectively mounted in any one of a plurality of different locations in the cab area of a vehicle having a snowplow unit mounted on the front end thereof for this purpose and in accordance with the embodiments illustrated in fig1 5 of the drawing back or bottom wall 214 of housing 210 is provided with one component of a two component separable fastener arrangement and at least one second component of the two component fastener arrangement is located in the vehicle cab so as to best accommodate the desire of a given operator with respect to accessing the control device during a snowplow operation as shown in fig1 and 2 wall 214 is provided with one component 230 of the two component fastener arrangement and dashboard 232 in the cab of the vehicle is provided with the second fastener component 234 preferably the first and second fastener components 230 and 234 are respectively the hook and loop fastener components commonly known as a velcro u00ae fastener each of which is suitably secured in place on wall 214 and dashboard 232 such as by an adhesive as will be appreciated from fig4 a 4c of the drawing the second component 234 can be mounted in any one or more of a number of different locations on the dashboard such as on the left or right hand side of steering wheel sw or on an upper or lower portion of the.