How to stop oversteering

And knees. People with healthy knees and no limp.

About oversteering, there's a sort of delayed reaction between truck and trailer. So you think the trailer isn't reacting to your steering wheel so you turn even more, and then the trailer catches up and suddenly turns way too much. It's easy to oversteer because once you start turning the trailer you actually have to counter-steer to hold that angle (AKA "chasing", "following", "getting back underneath it", etc.). The trailer's natural tendency is to jackknife itself. Imagine you turn the trailer ever so slightly and then just hold the steering wheel. You don't turn sharper, you don't counter-steer, you just hold it there. Because the trailer is turning (albeit just a little bit) it increases the angle between itself and the truck... which causes it to turn more sharply... which increases the angle with the truck... which causes it to turn even more sharply... etc. It's like a chain reaction. So turn the trailer until you get a nice angle that you like, then "hold" that angle by counter-steering as necessary until you need to straighten all the way out.

 

Put the shifter in the mddle jiggle it back and forth to make sure it's in the middle.You park it while in gear guess What as soon as you let up on clutch trk will die..

 

Don't worry about what others are saying,laughing pretend they're not there and do it right.Unless of course theyre trying to help you then that's different.

 

To throw in a mix to your addled and confused thinking approaching panic... I add this tidbit.

The SLOPE of the land you are physically moving on will influence that trailer to drift downhill. It will absolutely turn that way against your wishes unless you add a force against it with your wheel. He he he.

 

Don't over think and you be good, and in a manual when you put it in neutral and pop the brake thingy your in park or parked sorry not a real driver here I guess...