Skills test parallel parking cone distance?

Did you check the Drivers test booklet?

Or on their web site?

 

Get to your tractor/trailer....measure them out, and set your cones so you have extra space front and back....make it look like what you have been using.

the biggest thing is to know and understand is what movements occur when you manipulate the steering wheel, and how fast the trailer will respond to the changing movements.

 

Try standing on your head when you do it from the sight side (driver side)....LOL

 

until you have several hundred hours in a particular T/T then what exactly the distance is will be hard to gauge ~ main thing is dont get flustered and if you have to get out and look that is part of backing, never to into city delivery where you cannot observe backing distance yourself as I have never had a "watcher" with enough experience to flag correctly

 

Here is what we have here in Maine. Test A, U is the front of the truck, the rest are for the back of the truck.

A test is a straight back test. Straight back out of the cones and keep the trailer straight to where the nose of the truck is clear of the rear most cones.

B test, Truck is pulled forward from the last of the A position and the back of the truck is to clear the cones. When you pull forward it also shows that you can do a low speed lane change. The cones to your right represent a solid wall. You back through the 10x10 box and blindside into a parallel parking spot or also considered a alley dock. Truck and trailer can not go through any of the walls. The 3 feet at the end is a telephone pole by the dock.

C test, after completing B, you are to straight back and then pull forward parallel to the wall. The truck is to come to a stop at the indicated U. This test is to test your ability to dock at a building whose dock is on the side of the road. You will back the truck in a arc to your right, you can not pull forward and put the truck further out for a better line up as that is idiots going 55 and wont let you put the truck there. So you back up and the LTL bar is to be with in 10 inches yet not greater than 3 feet (inside the 10x10 box to that solid wall from the B test). When the trailer is to the "dock" the cab is supposed to be at a 45 degree to 90 degree relation to the trailer.

I squared the cab for extra points. The idea is that the lane of traffic you are blocking has room to get around you.

Mind you, this is what is required for the state of Maine for their "yard tests". We were using day cabs with 40 foot trailers.