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Tight Backing

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by fr8te_sh8ker, Sep 8, 2013.

Do you take time to practice backing?

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    Yes

    26 vote(s)
    74.3%
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    No

    10 vote(s)
    28.6%
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  1. Sep 8, 2013 #1
    fr8te_sh8ker

    fr8te_sh8ker Medium Load Member

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    Hello New Drivers (6 months or less),

    How do you like backing up so far?

    Is your trainer giving you time to practice each day?

    And are you ready for anything, yes or no ? (If you vote in the Poll it won't reveal your ID).

     
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  3. Sep 8, 2013 #2
    NewNashGuy

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    That backup video is nothing. I made backups like that blind sided in city traffic in Brooklyn.
     
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    IceCreator

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    And the point of this thread is..
     
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  5. Sep 8, 2013 #4
    fr8te_sh8ker

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    Post the video then, help someone out? Since they're here today looking around the forum they can study the moves and they will feel better, I think. I'm not trying to get into a pissing match about what's harder or worse that's not the point.
     
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  7. Sep 8, 2013 #5
    NewNashGuy

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    You want me to hand my phone to a stranger with dirty hands to record me doing it?
     
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  8. Sep 8, 2013 #6
    pattyj

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    I have delivered to places that I refused to back.So they either off load me from the street or direct me to a warehouse.Kansas city I had a back tighter then this one.After a half hr of pizzing the traffic off I told the customer im not backing into the dock.I followed him to their warehouse.Still a tight back but not quite as bad.
     
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  9. Sep 8, 2013 #7
    fr8te_sh8ker

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    In NYC you know your camera would be 3 blocks away before you could say a word. That's likely why there will be no video.
     
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  10. Sep 8, 2013 #8
    pattyj

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    To help drivers that can't back to save their life and that's too lazy to go to youtube. So the poster is just helping them out.
     
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  11. Sep 8, 2013 #9
    fr8te_sh8ker

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    If you're a smart as you think you are you'd realize you've asked me that on two threads I started now.

    Do you have something else you'd like to do besides stalk?
     
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  12. Sep 8, 2013 #10
    379exhd

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    I suppose my backing practice is actually real world. But every day you progress and get better. There is not substitute for real world backing and I would consider that the best practice.

    Newnashguy lighten up. The point of this thread as the OP said wasn't to start a pissing match. Its to help new drivers. Remember that.
     
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