Backing in tight places

i bet out of the 100 drivers at my terminal less then 10% have done that, does that make them worse drivers?

we dont have any spread axles or petes at all

 

I've never done it either. Lets agree to disagree this topic has been ruined!!!

 

I did not know it had a shelf life....

 

Its just been derailed, it was originally about giving some advice

 

and advice has been given....

 

A little thing I was told years ago.. when backing.. you are steering the trailer not the truck.. the truck will follow..lol.. used that for years.. an never failed me yet..

 

This is one of the better explanations that I've ever come across. It's from by lilillill on a thread called Parking started by lowbudget. I even read it onto my recorder and put it in a truck with some newish drivers to help them park. It works pretty good.


"That being said, when you set up for the back, hang close to the row you're gonna back into. Pull out at a 45 degree angle to the row and at the last minute, turn your tractor towards the row so your truck is already angled to the trailer.

Start your back, aiming the back corner of the trailer to be as close to the truck on your sight side as you can get... all the while turning the tractor into the trailer. Just watch that you don't crank it over 90 degrees and crush your fairings.

When the back of the trailer gets pretty close to the spot, you should have the tractor at almost 90 degrees to the trailer so it pivots into the spot. The back of the trailer will sit 'n spin... acting as a fulcrum as you line it up with the hole. Ideally, a few feet of the left corner of your trailer should be in the spot as you do this.

When it comes within 20 degrees or so of being parallel with the hole, start turning your tractor back away from the trailer to straighten it up. Watch the right front corner to make sure you don't bash the nose into a truck opposite the row you're backing into.

If you can't get it in one shot, just work the truck back and forth a few times, after the trailer is parallel with the hole, to get the whole thing parallel. With that short little trailer you got, you should have enough room, even in a Pilot, to have the complete unit perpendicular between the rows.

When everything comes into line with the hole, slide it in."

 

You have 2 mirrors and 2 eyes and an old saying. GOAL! Also learn that turning the steering wheel slowly will ruin a backing maneuver! Sometimes you have to make that thing swing!

 

LOL.. I like that.. yes sometime you have to crank that wheel.. like crazy ..lol.. I remember the first truck I drove..no power steering.. OMG.. I was wore out that first week.. till my arms got use to it..lmao

 

I have been driving for a year now, and sometimes I look like a pro, and other times I look like an idiot. I have thick skin, so I leave the radio on and just laugh with them. I heard this joke after I had a hard time backing into a spot, and yes I' m a Swift driver.
How do you know that your wife is seeing a swift driver while your on the road?
He is still trying to back out of your driveway when you get home.