Don't forget about tail swing

See that is where I wasted my life away never hauling interesting loads like that. LOL. That's righteous. Late model Freightliner perhaps?

As far as mirriors, the old west coasters that bolt on. Used to have a stack of 20's and pay the driver whose mirrior I smashed now then, Dallas TA in WVA comes to mind being dark and all. If I stopped eyeing the bad girls I would back in right.

Anyhow.

Tail swing is a difficult problem sometimes in manuvering. I wrecked about 10,000 dollars worth of inventory in a home depot once due to tail swing. (Long story...) Basically the store did not deploy staff properly to prevent such a problem from happening so the total neglect of a full 18 wheeler making a delivery in a million plus dollar store busy with cars up to here coming and going and no staff assigned to it got them lost inventory.

Bone head manager said his truck swing around all the time. Idiot does not know it's 30 foot flat decks not full 53's You cannot teach boneheads anything. So you don't

 

Late 80s Freight shaker. 80-90 ft loads like that also have nose swing. Sweet.

 

I do not recall well those late 80's shakers. We had a pretty square 87 with the twin screw and then noticed the newer ones like yours, found them to be a little difficult until they got sqaure again with air dams in 1993 or so. For me it was the last of the cabovers in trucking and the first to be able to tickle 132 on the speedo loaded. Using mass and momentum to jam the company's early software limiting of fuel pump. (We broke three of them in 6 months. Seals went pofth) I guess being empty and burning up sucking nothing kills em.

Im working on securing a decent size model of a 90's rig but unfortunately model makers do not pay attention to the 90's for what they were.

 

I'm feeling like Rip Van Winkle too.

After a fairly lengthy hiatus from driving, I came back to the road and hollered at Movie Star on the radio. They didn't answer... go figure.

 

My cousin parks loaded with logs at a truck stop all the time was a van hauler who took his mirror off lol

 

This underscores why it's so important for drivers when parking for the night at a rest area or truck stop, to keep the front fender at or back a little from where the marking lines start.

In the case where the lanes are angled, it's important to keep the front fender at or back from the shortest painted line.

I've had to wake guys up in the middle of the night and have them back up just so I could avoid hitting them with the trailer tail swing on my way out.

Same thing where there is back to back parking. Why in the world some drivers will back their trailers 4 or 5 feet beyond the back line is beyond me. Get out and see where back line is and line up the back of the trailer accordingly. If not, it forces the guy parking the other way behind you to stick out that much farther in his spot, which inevitably causes problems for the guy parked across from him.

 

So the same driver,hit you twice!