Help backing flatbed

Is it a spread axle trailer?

 

@TripleSix
@blairandgretchen
@bryan21384

 

Sometimes you have to dump the air on one of the axles.
It's been a long time since I pulled flatbeds and that was also with Western Express.
I alerted three flatbed drivers that can probably explain it more clearly than me.

 

One of the drivers I alerted will help you as soon as they see the alert.

 

Practice more with setting up.

If you're trying to do a 45 degree into a parking space in a row at a truck stop. pull up until you're a little before halfway up the space two spaces front of the one you want to park in. Turn your wheel all the way right until both shoes of your landing gear are visible in your passenger side convex. Little bit too far is better than not far enough. Turn your wheel left and pull forward until you're roughly facing straight down the aisle/your cab is 90 degrees from the trucks parked in the row. Straighten your wheels so the truck is moving straight backwards and you're just steering the trailer. Wait much longer to get underneath it than you did with the van, because it won't change direction nearly as much as a tandem does.

Practice in double empties and don't try to wrestle it into the space if it isn't gonna go. If it didn't, make a note of your setup at the points I described above, and adjust something. Start from further up or back, cut to the right longer or not as long, get underneath it sooner or later, and see how the trailer responds.

 

I know that seems tedious but it's how you develop that sense of what you need to do to get it to go where you want.

 

Ask for a new trainer..