I had an epiphany about backing up a tractor-trailer on a city street

So let's say that you are in the situation that I was in. And either you or the green truck had to back up or neither of you could make your turns. Let's say that you decided to be the one to back up. If you had not been watching your mirrors for every second after pulling up in the turn lane to make sure that no car was behind you, what would you do? Would you physically step out of your truck and put your body on the city streets to make sure no car was behind you when you backed straight up? That's what it looks like I will need to do in the future. That can be hazardous because I could get hit by a car in the oncoming traffic lane. But it looks like that is what I will do.

 

Let's say you were driving towards the Pilot truckstop in Ocala, FL. And you pulled into the turn lane to make a left-hand turn into the truckstop. Then you had to stop in the turn lane because there was oncoming traffic. Then after you were already stopped, a semi-truck with a 53' trailer pulled onto the driveway and pulled up near the street and stopped about 3 feet from the street. This other semi-truck is trying to make a right-hand turn. You were there first. But this other semi-truck drove up the driveway and next to the street anyway. What would you do?

 

Yeah but I never really thought about it in terms of backing before. I only thought about it in terms of driving forward.

 

Let's keep all the replies serious, people. This is a serious safety issue. Both I and other people reading this thread could learn some new and important things about safety from reading this thread and thinking about this issue.

 

Well, SOMEBODY had to back up, or the green truck and I would have been sitting there until the end of time. What should I have done?

 

You don't seem to understand the situation I was in. There was not room for him to complete his turn UNLESS I BACKED UP!