Hitting a wide open dock...

I used to do line striping for a living and that's exactly how we got our straight 90 degree lines

 

I put my truck in places SUV can't fit all day long, we got one place that's a brand new wide open all white sterile bldg, nobody ever there, I can slam that thing out in 10 pull ups or so HAH! Doesn't matter how much I friggen STARE at my door, the second I blink I'm 2 doors off! I hate that #### place. Whats funny is when I see other people do the same thing there.

 

Well,see sometimes its not You thats Crooked,its the building/dock.A few i go to have one stripe crooked and who designed this building? The architect need a "country ### whoopin"? Ya,it kinda helps when Craps in the way(some metal shelving or the warehouse guys BMW.How did he afford that,what is he a drug dealer? No,but seriously if its a 20° Cant,(if you will) I found if I aim for the center of the dock...and straighten it all up at the last 20 feet,Im Good to Go.JMO

 

It once took me 45 minutes to back into a dock at night somewhere in San Diego. They had some really weird dock that was angled 45° from the wall of the warehouse and no lines to follow and of course there wasn't a lot of space in front of me to maneuver. It made me feel like a brand-new driver.

 

You could just use the whole corpse. Much more wind resistant.

 

I wonder how the Pharoah would feel about being entombed in a used pyramid...?

 

You demonstrated the effects of being tired on your ability to critically work through problems in your mind.

I had a incident like that once, a wide open choice of 20 plus docks in a facility that had like 30 acres of pavement with nothing blocking my way to work with. I was too tired to get it in there. A little embarrasing to be sure, it is a classic example of how your level of tired makes a hash of easy tasks in your brain.

Hang in there, get some sleep see you next time.

 

I carry with me a 6 foot long piece of hot wheels yellow plastic racing track. I don't know if that is clear. But it is just about 4 inches wide and flexible. It will roll out and I can use it as an emergency stripe to help line me up.

 

As an alternative just use pebbles where the paint spots would be on the ground and use your 30 foot tape measure stretched out offset about a foot or two from where you want your trailer wheels as your reference point.

 

I can see it,

Scotty: how bout you hand, got s second?

Hand: sure driver, what's up?

Scotty: hold this end of my tape measure, so i can draw me some lines to back in.

Hand: the #### you say?!