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

I think "love" was sarcastic.

The sex of the human operating the vehicle has no bearing on the ability no matter what the actual ratio of good/experienced to bad or beginning drivers of each sex.

Mikeeee

 

I will always try to help someone next to me if they're struggling

 

I'm afraid to help someone because I don't want to get sued if they screw up.

 

I carry waivers in my truck they have to sign first. jk but thats probably not that bad of an idea sadly.

 

That driver would'nt have unhook had he been on line 4.Just plain lazy he was.

 

Are you saying an 8 year old couldn't back a trailer? Grandpa taught me how to back a trailer as soon as I could reach the pedal on the lawn tractor....I hadn't even started kindergarten yet. By the time I was 8, I had been backing trailers for nearly half my life.

Backing is probably one of the easiest skills to learn....IF you have a competent teacher. However, in a lot of cases, its more or less a matter of the blind leading the blind. When the "trainer" hasn't yet figured out how to back the dern rig up, how the hell is he supposed to teach somebody else? In any case, 2 weeks in reverse is overkill. If it takes you that long to "teach" someone how to back up, either they don't belong in a truck or you shouldn't be a trainer. Hell, I was only on my trainer's truck for 3 weeks...driving a truck really isn't all THAT difficult.

 

Your comment may be true about some or many company drivers, but that still does not give you the right to ASSUME it of everyone.

I am a company driver and I do all I can to save my company money. Like fixing what I am able instead of just bringing the smallest problem to a shop, like a headlight out. Taking time out of my driving day, or even some of a day off, to get a trailer to a repair shop instead of calling expensive road breakdown.

I am a team player and my team has been good to me so far.

Mikeeee

 

backing skill is not whats most important its knowing how to get the information across to the student.

 

Most memorable line from my teacher...

"I didn't teach you to do that."

That was said to another student of course, not me.. To the best of my recollection your honor!

Mikeeee

 

I can barely get in and out of a parking spot at a Dollar Tree with my pickup. What is wrong with those people? They must look at where you guys need to back in and say "The normal width of a tractor trailer in 102" wide. We will make the blacktop area 103 and 1/2 inches wide, that will give them some wiggle room.