Can't reverse for shit

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One of the best but simplest pieces of advice I ever got when I started was “point the trailer where you want it to go before you start”
It sounds like a no brainer but if you put a slight kink in it before you start moving then it will go round and into the bay space much easier than trying to start
a new turn from straight or even worse, with the trailer pointing away from the bay

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You tube
back up a sem-eye
practice makes perfect
watching drivers are sympathising, not laughing

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Optimum:
You tube
back up a sem-eye
practice makes perfect
watching drivers are sympathising, not laughing

No more insults, post in hi ku now?

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The way I was taught to steer an artic. Put both hands on the wheel @ 10 to 2

Look in your mirrors at where you want to go

Take the closest hand and point to the mirror you need

Steer down with the hand left on the wheel

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Some drivers are amazing reversers, most are average and some will never be good at it as long as they’ve a hole in their ***e!

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malcolmgbell:
I gave up trying to back on to bays,I tell good in I can’t do it ,they send people out with pump truck and load it

Im amazed you can get away with this at anywhere?! If you cant reverse on a bay at all surely you need to rethink your career?!

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Swordsy:

malcolmgbell:
I gave up trying to back on to bays,I tell good in I can’t do it ,they send people out with pump truck and load it

Im amazed you can get away with this at anywhere?! If you cant reverse on a bay at all surely you need to rethink your career?!

I’ve never not been able to get on a bay. But a shunter did recently have to take over and put the trailer in a parking space for me. He was pretty nice about it to be honest. I could have done it eventually but was taking a lot of time and I think he didn’t want to see my struggle anymore.

Reversing is very very very hard for new class 1 drivers. And I don’t think him giving up is all that bad. If it’s a really really tight bay and he needs to go in blindside it might be better to admit defeat than cause carnage.