"Never do a buttonhook after you pass your CDL test"

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Can someone tell me how you do a buttonhook with manual steering and 8 turns lock to lock. That looks like that would wear you out. I would need to take a 10 minute nap after each turn.

 

I am with Knightcrawler. I never buttonhook a right hand turn, no matter HOW many light poles and signs I tear down. I am a man of INTEGRITY.

 

Are we actually doing this???

 

Wait a minute, serious question:

If a member posts a thread with a poll, does he see the poll results from all of the members on his ignore list?

 

As long as you're not inches off of cars at the turn start the tail doesn't swing out much in a corner. Now if you do a 2 part turn that's different. Pulling forward, backing to jack it and taking as much room as you can get will swing that bumper wide as hell.

 

A good trainer will tell you to never to have an epiphany while making a button hook turn.

While it may help spur a serious thought provoking discussion on a trucking forum, it can be distracting at the moment.

 

That tight initial part of a button hook generate some pretty good tail swing, especially compared to a jug.

I'm not quite sure why the op insist a button hook is preferable for entering a narrow side street. A Jug Handle allows the trailer to enter that Narrow Street at a shallower angle meaning much less width is needed. Even a minimal jughandle gets much more of the trailer rotation done in the clear space of the intersection instead in the throat of the narrow street which a buttonhook requires.