Backing Up Trucks

Pick your points. When you GOAL find landmarks you can use in your mirrors. Find the line that the side of the trailer you can see has to follow to avoid hitting anything. If you lose sight of it or get lost in your mirrors GOAL again. Like the previous posts say, it's no embarrassment to get out, it is embarrassing as hell to hit something.

 

Backing a long trailer is easy, things happen slowly, Most of the advice so far is excellent, but if you really want to learn the fundamentals of backing or driving in reverse. find a pickup truck with a hitch and decent mirrors, ones without the full convex passenger mirror, and a 14 to 16 foot cargo trailer . go to an open area and learn to back it up, then a tractor trailer will be a breeze. I can back jeeped lowbeds fairly well, but the little cargo trailers can catch me off guard.

 

+1
Short wheel base POV and Short wheel base Trailers. Great learning past/present experience, for the present job to back up wiggle wagons.



Source- Me. Dually Duramax with double wide trailer waverunners.

 

get a trainer at school to spend some time on it ,,

 

My dad hooked a trailer to a pick up and I burned backward around the yard for a while to get my mind into the backing a trailer motion.
I still take a couple pull aheads with the big one to eliminate blind spots as I go in (both mirrors showing the sides is what I wiggle and steer for).

You'll be backing Rockies and Super Bs in no time!