Anyone using a drone to assist in backing in tight places?

Of course set up, and goal, and good safe particles, that's a duh! But as a training tool, as a tool for oversize, j could see hoppers in some dump operations!

It seems people forget that backing a truck is not always in a truck stop, or a planned dock. I have backed equipment that was also doing an operation and needed careful monitoring, take loading a hopper, it's a balance and a driver who is at a location he loads can't be everywhere looking at everything. Take oversize, who may have a particular job to accomplish solo, there are applications where an extra eye could be helpful, but not nessasary, or replacement for a solid safe practice.

I also used to deliver in downtown, you can get out and look, and before your in your truck a car, a person are in the way! You can't fix that, but down there, the set up if a drone would take to long and to complicated so you just avoid bad set up, so you can keep everyone is site, but you have to hit that dock.

 

Many drivers do more than trucks stops and freight docks, you can get out and look but in a high pedestrian area people will walk behind you before you can see them, so I was asking if anyone has an application it works. Obviously a normal OTR driver who has controlled access and more traditional backing would have no use for this. and because someone may ask about it, disent equal being lazy or a bad driver.

 

Again not talking about the normal operations, as most oversize going down the road is, (edit) I'm talking the fun stuff. When I ran crane and steel in LA wwe did this pool in Hollywood hills, needed 50' beams, so we used 32' flat and overhung, even with 3 spotters and a forklift to help swing on some corners, a birds eye view may have helped, but luckly we were able to get all the cars moved in the way so it only took two days. That's the kind of stuff I'm asking about. I forget many drivers one see the industry as a black and white OTR type operation.

Even the a trains and b trains I drove when I lived up in the northwest were normal operation, and most super size, over 14' like you mention come with pilots and don't find a unique nitch where the usual would call for something different