Need to sharpen up my backing up skills

What's a dock?

Just kidding, glad I don't do those anymore!

 

Well I May be wrong but I think a 100% might be a little strong . You agree there are hundreds of different set ups for different situations. But you want them to practice one or two basic ones.
So on the 1st day of practice a football coach tells his team this. With all the different formations and blocking schemes we have 96 running plays and a 132 passing plays . But we will only practice 1 or 2 of each. Just work-out the variations during the game

 

If it's any consolation: I don't push play anymore. I simply have my own experience..... which I guess I'm not sharing with anyone..... but...... hmmm.... dunno, maybe i suck at my life and will fade into obscurity like tens-of-hundreds-of-thousands before me..... *sigh*

Sure am ####ing glad I'm an absurdist and none of that #### matters!!!

Like your avatar.... it's fluid situation.... I'm constantly confused by you!

'100% wrong' but 'Yes!'...... Quick math lesson, maybe, Moose?...

 

When I first started I was doing team driving and a lot of drop n hooks in huge lots, and wasn't very comfortable backing, so I made it a thing that anytime I stopped, I parked in the first spot I came upon. No pull thrus and no blind sides. Then I would search out the more difficult spots... In a couple of weeks it made a ton of difference. Practice practice practice

 

lol..get some sleep man

 

Most drivers have to learn by doing. There aren't enough "tips" in the world to substitute for practice.

I learned to back Super-B trains by doing it over and over and over again, making small adjustments to my thinking and how I controlled the truck. I learned that it takes much less movement of the truck to make the pup turn, and you had to counteract the pup before it actually started to turn (you don't have time otherwise). Regular backing is just the same. Practice, practice, practice.

If you can't get it, try something new. Take it from a different angle, change how you steer, etc.

 

You really don't want to use a football example to an old Linebacker. Even in football the basic play for the most part starts the same then after the ball is snapped the players then move into different directions. My point being then and still now that the basic setups are the core of docking and then adjustments made for specific situations. In my career I have lost count of the times I have to back into alleyways that had bad dangerous curves. Even then I had to still do the sight side dock setup coming from the road to the alleyway. The biggest majority of the time when a trucker backs it is either a sight side or blind side back. The other setup is a 180 degree turn followed by a straight back to a dock. I am well aware that this is not the case ALL of the time and this is not my main point. My main point is these setups must be mastered because unless you are really doing something strange all day long these backs are what a driver DOES THE MAJORITY OF THE TIME.

 

You will not feel confident in backing until you've been driving for about a year. Don't try to save a bad setup, go around and do it again. Experience and doing it repeatedly is the only way to improve backing.