Getting used to a day cab

I have just recently started a new job as a local driver. I have driven for Werner for 4 years total (2 different times). I have driven Centurys, Classics, 387s, Columbias, and a couple others that i can not remember. Now that I have gone to a much smaller truck, I am having trouble backing. I am used to backing a truck that is much larger. The techniques for driving a much larger truck are the same, but sometimes over wheeling the tractor is causing problems. Go from a Peterbilt 387 to a Freightliner Cascadia day cab and tell me how much fun it is to back a trailer in somewhere. I look like a rookie all over again. How long does it take to really get used to driving a day cab?

 

twin screw Cascadias

 

I am used to backing up and turning the wheel and waiting for a few seconds for the trailer to respond. With these daycabs the trailer responds almost immediately. It is just going to take some time. Using the rear window is also something new, because in the sleeper I could never see how close the nose of the trailer was getting to the back of the cab. Time, that is what I need. In a few more weeks I think everything will be a lot easier.