Backing up trailers

Usually the tight spots I hit no problem, 1 or 2 pull ups. Give me huge a spot ill take 4-5 pull ups Lol.

 

What's harder than a short trailer is 2 short trailers. I didn't pull a gravel trailer long enough to master it but I had a couple successful 90 degree backs that made me feel like a super trucker for a minute. Then I got to the next farm and had to try it again.... Not a super trucker any more.

 

I also run into difficulties backing bobtail. It’s a pride swallowing siege, and I have to sit there and think about it, and I still get it wrong. My wife will no longer ride in a car I’m driving. She reminds me her 4Runner isn’t 70’ long. So I just sit there, and think she’s driving like a maniac because 4 wheelers are so low to the ground I feel like I’m going 100 mph. I just sit in back and whisper “we’re all going to die”. LOL

 

When 2 pivot combinations have a short tongue it's nearly impossible to back much firther the overall truck length. Longer tounge 2 pivot combos(, T&T, A train, ect.)can be maneuvered.

 

p.s. I hate backing my boat trailer! It's not because of the trailer length. It's because I can't see a #### thing with the mirrors on my SUV. That and the #### thing keeps beeping incessantly because the backup camera thinks I'm about to hit the boat. lol

 

When you see the trailer wheels in your mirror start turning the other way. Slow & steady driver....

 

I LOL’d at this.

I have friend who asked if I could back up his boat. I said “nope, not a chance.” There was no upside, at best I make it look easy and that’s what is expected…at worse I #### up and have to go on a two state high speed pursuit that ends with me buying McNuggets in a drive through and getting tazed in the ‘nards.

 

I used to work at a food distribution place in New Jersey. The warehouse manager (native New Jersey) told me that some Werner driver didn't check with him and took half an hour backing into a door. Our doors were super easy to back into. She came in and he told her "that was some fancy backing, but I need it in door number 6, not 1!"

 

I used to take trainees to our rail to truck yard.

Had a double track and a crossing to the area between the double track and the third track.

Told them to drive thru the crossing, turn right, get straight and back down between the tracks never telling them that the 3rd track was not parallel to the first two.

Experienced guys had no issues but school guys couldn't do it as the kept comparing their position to each side, constantly looking back and forth and over correcting until I stopped them and made them look forward at the snake trail our tracks were making in the dust.

After explaining the issues I would have them watch one side and occasionally check the other and suddenly they could back down the whole half mile like they actually knew how. A few actually said they learned more that afternoon than they did in school.

 

I don’t know lately I can’t back up a bobtail. Always oversteering, time for a break from drivinf