Finally hit the dock!

It's only a "fixed object" if someone's head is still in it. I forget the rule number. But it's in the book.

 

Crap??? I just run my trailer tires towards the freakin dock door.. too hard to figure all that out! Lol: but, I’m a girl: I do it the girlie way: as easy as possible! Lol

 

Hitting the wide open docks with no lines can be a pain in the arse at times, just slow down as if you were in a situation where the docks were tight with trailers next to you.... looking a your tandems instead of the end of the trailer helps for when to start cranking the wheel to get back under it.
I had a situation where it was wide open and no lines and the building in front of me was at angle to the building I was docking at..... talk about being all jacked up, I pulled up 4 times trying to get straight and each time I got out I was like in the same position as previously LOL

 

This straight enough?

 

You did great. I stumbled on that temporary landmark trick when I delivered to a new warehouse. Tons of empty doors, new pavement, no oil stains, no tire marks, etc. I tried & tried, it was ugly. Then I dropped one of my gloves kinda close to the door and the other glove where the future painted line would end beside the tractor. That gives a good straight line to judge where position the trailer. it really can be harder to park a trailer with nothing near you than in a crowded set of dock doors.

 

Yeah, I know. I was being a smart Alec because of how complicated some of these backing theories can get (yours wasn’t). Some of the ways they teach people to back a truck confuses me more than the actual backing lol.

I’m just glad I had a handle on how to back a truck before I started reading them. My head spins when I read some of them. Ha

 

Or hit your fairing like western Express and swift tend to do. I see brand new cascadias with crumpled or missing Fairings.

 

I'd like to buy you a beer because you dont do all those overcomplicated backing techniques those cdl mills try and teach.

 

Everyone should learn to back up using a spread axle trailer without tearing up the tires.