Tandem placement and turning radius

If you think you are so knowledgeable, why don't you give your opinion on the answer to the question that I wrote in post #60?

I never asked for your opinion on my driving ability. The thread is not supposed to be about me. The thread is about trailer swing, turning radius, and offsetting.

 

You directly addressed my question without any sarcasm. You didn't make your response about me. Your response was about the control of the CMV. Good post.

You said that the tail swing is never a benefit. So that means that you don't think that tail swing to the right is how sliding the tandems forward helped me get the rear of the trailer past the guard shack. You are saying that sliding the tandems forward helped me by increased maneuverability. So as far as my question in post #60 goes, did I get this increased maneuverability by reducing off-tracking?

 

Look....first I backed up. Then I slid the tandems forward. Then I drove forward past the guard shack. The tail would swing right as I drove forward because I turned the steering wheel to the left.

 

Thank you. You are really good at getting to the heart of these matters and answering the questions. With many posters, everything is a big guessing game, but you're good at making things clear. You would probably make a good trainer.

 

You did clear up the question of whether it was trailer swing or reduced off-tracking that helped me to get the rear of the trailer past the guard shack. That's true.

I do have a better understanding of the scenario in the OP now. However, I still don't understand everything about the scenario of the OP 100%. I still don't know if what FLD wrote in post #61 is correct.

I will write what FLD wrote in green text. FLD wrote the following in post #61: "Good lord…sliding your tandems ahead makes it akin to pulling a shorter trailer. The same with any trailer, once the tires get past the obstacle you’re good to go. ."

I don't know if what FLD wrote here is correct. FLD says that once the tires get past the obstacle, you're good to go. Now, I know that usually, once you get past the tandems, you are good to go because even with the tandems all the way forward, the center point of the tandems is still only about 8 or 10 feet maximum from the rear of the trailer. But FLD makes it sound like getting the tandems past the obstacle is the decisive factor, which I don't understand. Wouldn't it be possible to hit the trailer against the guard shack at a point on the trailer behind the tandems?

Do you agree with FLD on post #61? If so, why are the tandems the decisive factor?