I bet it’s been posted before but was wondering how long it took you to get used to blind reversing.
Its like saying how long is a piece of string! , variable , according to ability , situation, where you are trying to reverse into how good your banksman is …if you have one! How often you may need to get out & look so yiu don’t hit an thing, just in case!, How often you have to do a blind side reverse etc , 
As long as my N/S electric mirror is working I find it quite easy, as you can keep the whole trailer in view by slowly bringing the mirror in as the trailer comes round.
Just keep an eye on what you can’t see !!
Never get used to it, just go really slow & have a look where it’s going, I even pop over to the passenger side or get out for a look sometimes. Some places you can’t avoid it but if there’s room I always spin it round & reverse on my side. Don’t worry how many people are watching you 99% of them have never driven anything bigger than a car, just take your time. 10 or 15 minutes at your hourly rate is a lot less than the damage you can do to nice shiney new trailer hiding out of your site (or the best one is, when the warehouse staff park their cars all around the loading bays 
& still expect you to Blind Side it 
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I had a discussion with a bloke at a store where it’s a blind reverse, cars parked in the keep clear area and upwards of 40 pallets of card in the way. He told me he’d never seen anyone take so long to reverse onto the bay. I said I’d rather be safe than sorry and he basically said hit the cars as they know they shouldn’t be there. He didn’t care as he doesn’t drive.
Apparently DanMJ knows where you can get good cameras from. 
If you start leaving a trail of devastation it will blacken your reputation , get out if you need to & take a look, some other drivers will have had years more experience , perhaps a lot more than yourself. You will get better with practice , everyone starts new somewhere in life
It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been driving and what experience you have, you’ll always have off days when blind side reversing.
Most days you’ll get it spot on but every nown then you’ll be made to look like an idiot lol.
When your reversing blind, always take a good look at your surroundings before making the maneuver, look for potential hazards and take it slow. Try and visualise where the trailer is going, If you have to get out half a dozen times to check where your trailer is then do so, don’t guess.
The last thing you want is to cause damage or even worse injure / kill someone
You never get use to it even if you are lucky enough to use the same unit and trailer every day.
Take your time and get out and look don’t worry about the usual ‘done it all’ driver taking the ■■■■ just laugh it off
CM
as above ya never really get used to it…but sometimes it has to be done .
key is dont get to cocky and dont bother way the i dont need tae get out to look brigade…it doesnt matter if you have to get out 10times to look as long as its done safely.
jimmy.
Yes you can get used to it, the secret is to practice often where safe.
Whenever you get 5 minutes to spare pull into a service area or similar and select an awkward reverse into a merked bay with nothing in the danger zone, then blind side it in to the gap, do this several times each and every day every time the opportunity presents itself, it will all click into place in short order.
I see too many drivers going for the easy option every time, the drive thru parking slot for example, when they are eventually forced to perform a blinder in a tight expensive (if you drop a clanger) situation they haven’t got a clue cos they didn’t practice when they had the chance.
Learn all the ways to reverse, mirrors only, window open leaning out, drivers door open leaning out…the last is frowned upon by some but for own side close manoeuvers is by far the best.
Most importantly keep your windows and mirrors spotlessly clean, thats half the battle as well as being a pro approach.
I definitely agree you want to get some practice in so you can blindside if you need to - and there are plenty of places where you will definitely need to like one way systems, for example.
However, I would almost always, if sensible , plan my route to avoid it particularly anywhere there are likely to be pedestrians as I always feel that when blindsiding there is a much greater risk of a pedestrian walking either behind the trailer or into another blindspot without you noticing. Blindsiding tends to draw an awful lot more of your focus and attention into purely the near side mirrors greatly reducing your awareness of what’s going on in your periphery.
To put another spin on it. How do you cope with a rear steer on blind reversing? U
Little & often ! If you hook it to far you won’t have enough time to bring the rear wheels back in line … Above all “don’t be a c@nt take a shunt”
merchantofdoom:
To put another spin on it. How do you cope with a rear steer on blind reversing? U
The trick to that is understanding how a rear steer trailer acts. I’m pretty confident with them and don’t struggle too much, but that’s all I’ve used since I passed my class 1. Put me with a standard tri axle and I’d be screwed, though
Weirdest trailer i ever pulled was a 30’ single steering axle jobbie, yes 1 axle and it steered.
If you looked at the trailer body you’d reverse all over the bloody yard, you had to watch the trailer wheels only then it was fine, fantastic on the road it just followed with no cut in at all.