90 Alley Dock Set Up

This seems overly complicated... Ignore your trailer and focus on the tandems. Once you're used to max steering angle and wheelbase it will be easy, unless you keep swapping tractors. I lucked out during training a decade ago, they had a few OOS trailers they would setup for alley practice. We used reflective tape on the test trailer, went "lock to lock" based on when the tape disappeared behind the fairing-worked like a freaking charm!

 

Off topic and my grudge point. Why is it called a 90 degree "alley dock"?

Alleys in Chicago are 16 feet wide! There is no way anyone is doing a 90 degree back with that little room. Heck, you could barely do a 10 degree back!


Mikeeee

 

I think its 90 degree into an alley not 90 degree in an alley.

 

Have them set the cones up at school or practice yard exactly how they have them at the dot. Back up 1,000 times if that's what it takes. It's all about the reps.

Edit: just realized somebody brought a 3 year old post from the dead. I'm assuming the OP has learned his fate on Friday 3 years ago!

 

had me going

 

I would recommend practicing on the course at the DMV. That's what I did and it's easy to pass. Just take the truck over there on their day off and practice. I did thale same thing for my motorcycle test as well. Really helpful.

 

It's aways important to get out and look. When you take your road test, you may only be allowed one pull up, but you should be able to get out and look as many times as you want without losing any points.

Another thing that might help... This may sound really silly but it does help for some people. Go to a toy store and spend a few bucks on a scale model tractor trailer. Set up a mini alley dock on a table top and practice setting up with that. Geometrically it's not really any different from the real thing, it's just on a much smaller scale lol.