Ever have a day you just aren't with it?

Yeah, sure, but then there are days I'm sure Sandra Bullock wouldn't be able to turn me down.....

 

I spend half my day in reverse, every few months, Few weeks back, I had a 20' container on a stretched 3 axle chassis, had to back into an auger, customer had cones setup for me to split and be lined up perfectly, it took 15 tries. Twice the customer asked me if he had time for coffee. Next day, I blindside backed a 53' trailer into a dark dock.

 

There's a guy on Youtube that pulls a B-train, he posts backing videos, the other day he spent 14 minutes backing a B-train, I watched the video 3 times while waiting for Swift to stop blocking the lot and back into a dock.

 

Apparently those b trains are easier to back up than regular doubles.. Or so i have been told. Theres a company i see up in montana all the time , flatbed. They come down from canada. See them guys backing up b trains better than i can back up my 48 flat

 

Well, I did much better today. Last night before I went to bed, took a full dose of Nyquil and slept well! This morning my sinuses decided to behave better too! Only thing of note today, I had 7 minutes left on my 14 when I finally got parked. But, I could have had around 40 minutes if I opted to use a sleeper berth split. If I took another 8 minutes, I guess I would have used the split.

 

Its called running out of talent, lol. Sometimes I tell people its my 1st day...the sad thing is I think they believe me rotfl.

 

It happens....usually on Mondays or when I get off home time. This past Tuesday was awful. I took 5 pull ups to get my set up right to drop an empty, then another 10 min to do the back up job.

 

Assuming this poor gentleman is having one of those days

 

I used to have dudes from Canada deliver lumber to my lumber yard with Super B's.. They'd back them 90 degrees off the highway like it was nothing. At that time I was running a straight 24' flat towing a 28' flatbed pull pup trailer. Holy crap was that thing a pain in the butt to back up.

 

I have those type of days too. Being tired causes most of my problems with backing, remembering simple verbal instructions and navigation. It is humbling, lol