Just back up until it sounds expensive, then pull up and do it again. Eventually it sounds cheaper
International backing
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You mean backing from one country to another? Might need to put it in R2 for that one.
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My advice, if you gonna' be a truck driving man, you need to be able to climb into any truck and drive it. Don't matter if auto, stick, blue, white, red, sleeper, day cab, 250 inch W/B or 185 inch W/B, broken seat, dual exhaust, single screw, a million mi, or whatever. Reminds me years ago, I had never driven a 4X4 tranny. But we had a few in our fleet, small co. and I knew one day I would come to work and my truck would be "down" and bossman would say, Son, drive ol' 229 today and it would be one of the 4X4 tranny. And it happened and I did climb in and play with it for a few blocks and figured it out.
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I drive an LT and the steering does respond quickly and backing does take some getting used to. I have a spinner knob on mine and it makes it easier to have a lighter touch when I back.
Mine is a manual. but an auto isn't any different, on the steering part anyway. But with a loaded smooth bore tanker surging, backing can get interesting, that's for sure.broke down plumber Thanks this. -
I’ve been driving one for five years, and just this morning found myself oversteering as I backed into a loading dock. In my defense, I haven’t had my coffee yet!
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I've seen videos about high-tech 'camera-mirrors' that are becoming popular in Europe, where a camera replaces the mirror, and there are tall tablet screens mounted inside on the A-pillars that give you your mirror-view on each side, PLUS a combined view in the center screen, which shows curved lies to show where your trailer doors are headed, just like a modern car. between that and the auto-image level views through these rear-facing cameras, maybe this will help backing accidents. Oh, these 'steering wheel holders' will still find other ways of screwing up, but if the "2 a.m. truckstop surprise" accidents are reduced from this technology, at least that's one small win...
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I drove a KW680 for 3 years then switched to a freightliner,
I was the same looked like a noob took like a month to get used to it.
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