Anybody else tilt their electric nearside mirror out to see the back of the trailer when doing a blindside reverse instead of guessing with the nasty fish eye lense? Started doing it a couple of days ago and helps me a lot 
Fuzrat:
Anybody else tilt their electric nearside mirror out to see the back of the trailer when doing a blindside reverse instead of guessing with the nasty fish eye lense? Started doing it a couple of days ago and helps me a lot
Yep, and I regularly practice my blind side reversing too.
Yes.
I do everything I can to stop me hitting crap! 
Next question?
And no, I always choose the easy side, and check like crap when I have to blindsideā¦ 
I tilt the blind spot mirror out and then get out and do a couple visual checks. I regularly blind side to keep the skill up, itāll never get better if itās avoided. [emoji846]
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Takes a bit thinking about to turn the mirror the correct way as you straighten up in reverse still i find, iāve been doing this since we gained electrically adjustable mirrors and still sometimes send it further out as i straighten up
As above, still practice regularly, luckily i normally have the same tank trailer which is good, but when i have to use another of different design you should see the pigs ear i can make of the simplest reverses
It does make it rather interesting when you try and move the mirror while you straighten up I have to stop and move it else I think the trailer is doing strange things. Its simple things like this that you learn in the ārealā world that should be gone through in the test. How many learnt how much room you need to screw it round in their lessons? Surprisingly less than I thought
Didnt do a single screw turn whilst training lol! [emoji23] only started that practice once qualified which also caused me to learn to in future remove the lines on actros MP4 before doing such a manoeuvre!! They are to ā ā ā ā low and get snagged / caught on trailer neck!![emoji849]
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Iāve tried adjusting the mirror, but somehow it makes it worse, not better 
So for the moment, I think itās the old fashioned way of stopping and getting out and/or crossing over the cab and sticking my head out the window.
Get a wagon and drag. Make life a bit easier on the blindside
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Window in back of cab, wouldnāt be without one now. (If I had a choice)
slowlane:
Iāve tried adjusting the mirror, but somehow it makes it worse, not betterSo for the moment, I think itās the old fashioned way of stopping and getting out and/or crossing over the cab and sticking my head out the window.
Whatever works for you is right mate, there is no right nor wrong way, i bet if you watched 50 drivers of various experience and competence reverse either way into the same slot, youād see 50 different methods ending with the same result.
Iāve always opened the drivers door and leaned out when on own side, been doing that 40 years and only ever had one jobsworth have a moan about it, Comet Skem, complained about health and safety, didnāt quite see the irony when i pointed out that all of their double deckers had flared arse ends where opening the window and looking back (or on mirrors) had seen them repeatedly rammed into the loading banks at various speeds.
Not suggesting anyone else does it like i do mind, each to their own, what works for me possibly wonāt be any good for anyone else.
To get the best from the main mirror make sure its not set too high, far too many lorries you could use the main mirrors for clocking ex WWD Stuka diver bombers coming in on your blind side over the trailer roof, you only want to see the top of the trailer at arse end at the very top of the mirror, that should give you a superb field of vision of all the wheels including the NS drive wheels of the tractor unit, than as you start to bend the trailer round, push the ns mirror gently out to keep the same vision of the trailer as you would have driving down the road round a normal bend, as you tighten up the turn push the mirror gently out further maintaining the same view.
It takes practice and that practicing is best done when you canāt damage anything no matter how much you get it wrong, so i always suggest new drivers make a point of calling in likely MSAāa and truckstops on the way to wherever you are going, select a marked space well away from any other vehicles and high kerbs (if poss) and have a practice for 10 minutes or so, do this every day and within a few weeks youāll be slotting the things in no bother into the worse blind sides imaginable.
I still blind side into gaps when not needed just keep me hand in, have a couple weeks holiday and the bloody lorry feels like itās grown 20 ft when you get back in
NBG leaving learning the techniques till you have a real nasty blinder between two lorries at a delivery where neither of the sods will shift their arses off the seat just to let you know if youāre getting too close for comfort.
Not a technique Iāve personally used. Probably down to the fact that my first unit had electric mirrors that didnāt work.
But as juddian has suggested, practice at any opportunity. I still take every chance I have to blindside it. Iām actually worse on my good side half the time!
By no means am I any sort of expert, Iāve only been driving artics 2.5 years, but Iām at a point where nothing ever phases me too much. Slow and steady and you can stick the thing just about anywhere.
Reversing on your blind side, is no different from anything else in this game. A level head and a lot of practice will keep you from anything too bad happening.