Millis OTR journal

Started straight backing and offset right to left. Pretty comfortable with the straight back but bombed on the offset. Any tips. Going to watch some videos, any tips and tricks I'd appreciate it.

 

Dont watch YouTube videos!!!!! You just started you will be fine. Jamie is good he will get you where you need to be.

 

Speaking of dumb rookie moves, I did one yesterday that I'm glad nobody saw becauinse I'm sure they'd still be laughing about it. Picked up from Essity in Neenah. Neenah has been getting quite a bit of snow. Your friendly Gremlin didn't take this into account when he stood right up next to the back of his trailer as he opened his tails. Gremlin got buried under an avalanche.

 

Yeah I hate them too, but to use an overused expression, "it is what it is." Every time I see "Driver didn't close tails. Backed into door." in the accident report I keep hoping that maybe Dan will finally realize that they do more harm than good. Hope springs eternal, right? I don't really mind the skirts except they slightly mess with my perception when backing. Without them, I have straight lines down the sides of the trailer to align with the painted lines or whatever cheater lines I'm using. The skirts throw that askew.

 

Gotta love road signs. However, anything is better than the crap they got over here in China...i.e. mostly non-existent or downright wrong and dangerous.

 

You know who else doesn't have trailer tails? Swift. You'd think, with 16,000+ tractors, if there was any money to be saved by using them, they'd be all over it.