Backing a 28' trailer for my CDL test. Need Advice

Pups act more like a bumper pull trailer on a pickup as far as the amount of input needed. I know that's not really a good answer but just the best way I can describe it. If you have any experience towing a boat or car trailer on a pickup just keep that in your head on how much to turn the wheel.

 

That’s what they feel like to me. Backing them is easy, getting straight on the dock is not. I was running a pup w/lift gate quite a bit couple weeks ago, took couple days to get good at hitting docks straight. Day cab broke down one day, did 12 stops with that pup hooked to sleeper truck. Pain in the rear not having that back window in tight spots.

 

Ughhh sleeper. Freaking truck as long as the trailer lol. I hate driving trucks with sleepers, thankfully we don't have any where I work.

 

HA. You dusted off a old memory. Here it goes.

One company put on a rodeo a formal competition. Now we were mostly sleeper cabovers so it should be easy. They know we can stick em trailers to a inch.

What did they do? Grab a couple of short freightliner daycabs with setback steers and a 40 footer for each one. Out on the course you go. Good luck.

I reckon half of us couldnt do anything with them. Not at a moment's notice. If you left off the scoring and trophies I was one of several to beat the side by side balls on golf cues problem. One side left was straight, other side was wriggly and the last pair at the far end is what you aim the whole thing at. Least I had that. However they had their senior driver "pets" who got 1,2 etc and that's ok. it's the way the wheel turns.

 

yeah backing a pup trailer is a royal PITA...especially when you have been pulling 53's like forever, and the company asks you to help them out and put a 28'er in the dock..man are you gonna be all discombobulated...(that's a real word)....it means, something the mods will edit out...lol

you gotta work a 28 footer SLOWER with SMALLER inputs to the steering.....

you will also be discombobulated if you got an SUV or pick up, and try to back up your boat or other small trailer....and you were pulling longer trailers all week long......don't ask me how i know....

 

Make sure the trailer your learning on is either a 5th wheel or Gooseneck. Bumper hitch trailers dont pull the same.

 

Or back the same. I had that Superliner Mack on a pintle hook with a beaver trailer riding on it off my bumper. We welded the bejeesus out of that #### thing so we can load it with the paver AND a backhoe. THUMP... (Never mind that weight restriction at the pintle hook... Paint that over...)

Backing those things are not common. Its been done but I see it as two porcupines trying to raise a family the hard way. //teasing.