Parallel parking! Are they serious?

You will need every parking skill possible. When you go through a rest area at 4am or a truck stop at night during a snow storm you may use every skill you ever learned to make it out the other side.

 

too me, it's easier on my blind side. I'm self taught and was grandfathered in, so I have never had to take a test other than a written one

 

It's really not as hard as you want to believe it is. In fact you will parallel park more on your blind side vs the drivers side. The key is, as with any backing procedure, get out and look. Taking 20 minutes to back into a spot safely is way better than 2 hrs filling out an accident report plus all the other negatives that go along with it.

 

Drivers for moving companies tend to need this skill a lot, as they're often parking on-the-street in front of a house they're moving.

 

New York requires it on there exam and it is something that I have had to use.

 

Oversteering is the big problem... quarter turn on the steering wheel to get the back end moving in the right direction. Quarter turn the other way to straighten out. Once you figure that out, it's really pretty easy.

 

Like everyone else,I was also taught parelle parking in school.But out in the real world only had to use it very little and at a couple rest areas.Never at a customer truckstop or the terminal.

 

They teach you that now because theres a lot of places you have to use it, especially in the larger cities and a lot of the old rest areas youll have to do it.

 

Its not bad. I kinda like doing it myself.

 

Blind side is easier for me. Use it at alot of the smaller rest stops in new england