Wow a guy next to me with a spotter cannot get into dock beside me

Good post.

I remember in my CDL school days a number of students who would purposely avoid getting into the truck on the backing range unless they absolutely had to. That's an image problem...not wanting to appear (at least in your own mind) like an incompetent. Shoot....my class just razzed each other, then high-fived when we got it right. We had fun with it.

But you are spot on, I believe. And the problem is getting worse, not better.

 

I have seen plenty of these situations where the trainer didn't possess the basic teaching/communication skills needed to convey his thoughts to the newb...

You can teach a monkey to drive a truck on a highway, but if he can't get it into a dock, with help no less!, he's worthless...Sounded like the blind leading the blind...

 

Practice makes perfect, and no one should be ashamed of being new, we all were new once, I still feel new to some of these guys, but I have found that watching another driver builds my skills as well as just doing it, every dock is different every situation is different, just learn from it. These guys don't sound like they wanted any help...

 

I'm not at all afraid to ask for help.The trailers I haul have their own 2 special docks,it's very tight and you have to blind side and one dock already had a trl in it so it only made it that much harder.Last week I could'nt back to save my life,I asked another driver with my company to back this thing in and he did.Now if it would have been somebody else from a different company I would have just ask him to spot me.

 

not wanting help seems like the problem this time .... outside eyes really help

 

I never offer my help for anybody that hasn't Gotten Out And Looked at least once.

The ones that just keep trying, i just laugh at them.

 

Well said. If you're not progressing you're falling behind.

 

sounds like a dumber and dumber team... two rookies in the truck together for a short period of time. Also sounds like their "trainers" did not allow them to back in at docks, as it would take to long, and that trainer needed more miles that week to pay his bills.

So they had no clue what they were doing, but hey, they never hit you, and eventually got it into the dock.