Specific question.

Heavier trailer in front, plus if rear trailer catches fire, you can ditch it and not lose the whole rig.

 

Was at a small scrap metals place dropping off some
Metal fence posts

No way for a big truck to pull in and turn around , it was tight for my crew cab pickup and 12 foot trailer.

And it was on a busy four lane with a center turn lane . On the west side of the road

driver pulled up a little ways south down the road and waited in the center turn lane until it was clear both ways.

then he pulls up into the oncoming lane up against the driveway , and swings across all five lanes and blocks them so the traffic is forced to stop,
He lays on the horn and backs in laying on the horn several
More times so the morons in the cars are warned not to try to slip around while he’s backing in .
That’s the only way to do it .
You just wait till there’s no traffic in either direction and whip across the entire road and block it and do what you need to do .

 

Not a problem for those that actually know how to reverse a trailer though

 

Laziness is the driving force in skill

 

How about vacuuming from a railcar where you need to back down a line of a few dozen.

I used to take students to the rail yard and it messed with their heads as the two rows of tracks were not parallel.

Got to teach them how think about driving the trailer and not keep bouncing from mirror to mirror by stopping them before they got too crooked and make them look out front at the snake trails they were leaving in the dust.

I've seen tankers backed into places you couldn't get a 53...most are shorter.

Electric sub stations, after a lightening strike, spot a bunch of tanks to receive the transformer oil and the haul in a special re-processing unit to restore the di-electric properties to the transformer oil and pump it back into the restored transformers.Think about the chain link fence around sub stations and how you have to maneuver to get out one of the 5 or 6 that were greased into that small area. Tankers have to backup a lot.

 

There is a proverb in there, somewhere.

 

He whoeth laziest, ist most skilledeth

 

Not quite!!

Open deck drivers like me must sometimes back up into some of the craziest places you have ever seen. We rarely bump a dock, but we do back up!!!

 

Plus, they use truck stops like everyone else

 

As a truck driver, or even a steering wheel holder, you may get paid for the miles, but you earn your pay backing.