Do I need to adjust my mirrors or just not believe them?

Use your convex mirrors, if you have them.

 

I've done that before, been perfectly aligned with the painted line on the ground but when I walked back to check the trailer was ####eyed. Just means they painted the line out of square to the dock door. All's you can really do is go back and check every time, my company's policy is that we get close (about a foot or two away from dock) then go look and complete the docking.

 

Then pull forward again and open the dog-gone trailer doors. Then re-complete the docking.

And hey, we've all done it at some time or other.

 

IMHO you will make yourself crazy trying to be perfect every time. If you are within an inch on one side that is fine. Yeah perfect is nice, but walk down the dock if possible and look at how the other trailers are in there. Perfect doesn't happen all that often. Its like being backed in perfectly straight at the truckstop, doesn't happen often. I used to worry about being straight and perfect....not anymore.

 

This is the easiest way right here. The tandems don't lie. I had a daycab that the mirrors always made one side look straight and the other looked angled. I just learned to adjust myself to them.

When lines aren't straight it can really screw you up though. I went to a Costco that my dock had one straight line and one angled that I didn't realized was angled. I kept backing in and the left side looked great and the right looked ridiculously out of line. Pulled up a good ten times trying to get it straight before I realized what the problem was. I didn't feel to bad though as the guy next to me saw this and when I got out told me he did the same thing thinking it was him not the lines.

 

well "this they says" does this..

i back up, lines, no lines, whatever. some nights i am "dead on perfect"

other nights...??

hey, i'm at the dock, i'm done"


after 25 stinking years

if it was good for government work, it was good for me...!!!!...

 

a 2 degree difference means one side of the trailer off an inch?
you think the lumpers care
i am a slacker for sure but i call that perfect
seeing the whole rubber bumper on one side i call good nuff

 

yeah, especially when all the time you pull roll up door trailers, then they throw you a curve ball, and give you barn doors..!!!

 

roll up doors are for sissys like auto transmissions sign me up