Parallel parking help

When you set it up, look at it as 2 45s. When you start heading into the hole, don't aim for the corner, aim about 15 feet further forward.

 

The way I was taught was when lining up put the front cone between the tandems about 4-6 feet away. Hard right to put the trailer in the hole hard left to straight then back straight until your tandems are just inside the cones. You should be able to get out and looking down from the front middle cone to the back cone it should be in the triangle of the dot bumper. Then hard left to swing the trailer back straight and hard right to straighten the truck.

It's a pain in the ### maneuver you'll probably use once in your while driving career lol

 

Parallel is all about setup. If you can setup correctly you'll get it if you don't you'll play hell trying to get it in the hole.

 

If you do that you'll push the trailer right into the middle cone and hit the front cone when you bring the truck back around... I'm sure there is more than one way to do it but if his method isn't working for you then you need to find one that does.

 

Setup like I said. First cone between the tandems about 3-6 feet away and do your maneuver. See if that doesn't help