To me,the OP just lacks self confidence! Say to yourself “I’ll get it in there” and you will without damage! Tesco Welham Green has some ■■■■ bays and most mess it up especially under the canopy or next to the canteen as you go in the gate!
Not me though! I’m a super trucker!! 
albion1971:
Ok so in other words a lot of drivers would probably need at least one months training if they were switched on.
Can you imagine the cost? How many could afford it?
Unfortunately the current system works and produces a very poor standard of driver.
Do not forget the LGV test is just like the car test.
You pass your test and then you start to learn.The problem with some drivers is they pass their test and think they know it all!
It is the whole system that is at fault.Remember the LGV test is a basic test designed to get a candidate through their test and that is exactly what most training companies do.
I’m not interested in making things harder for people to pass to raise the perceived exclusivity of being a truck driver. All I’m bothered about would be using that time spent drumming robotic procedure in to new drivers to carry out driving in a way that they wont in real life and instead using it to teach them very basic fundamental requirements like how to reverse properly around a corner and not just in a straight line with a dog leg kink which doesn’t prepare them for absolutely anything post-test. The very nature of the job will mean that you’ll always do 95% of your learning on the job after the test, it can’t realistically be any other way unless courses run in to months and cost tens of thousands of pounds, a sum which no one can afford and even then it will only be theory and not real world experience. A one or two week long course could however be put to better use than is currently the norm and at least give new drivers a basic understanding of reversing for example, so that when they do start work in the real world, they have at least something to build on and this is not currently the case because like you say, the training/examination system is built to operate in a certain way, and nothing more.
The saddest part of this is that it could very easily be overcome. The DCPC could have helped a little, but typically it’s just a waste of time and energy in most cases.
The way to do it would be to mentor new drivers so that experience can be passed down the line.
The ones with the most to make from improving the skills of drivers are the companies, yet they want no part of trying to improve driver training, except to force BS health and safety onto us at every opportunity.
RH 84. I understand what you are saying and agree but it is not so simple as you make out.Have you ever tried to train a driver to test standard? With some even 2 weeks is a struggle where as one week in almost impossible.
When I worked for a private training company we were given drivers and told that they could only afford to pay for 5 days training.You could spend all a lot of time on reversing and show them all aspects but then there was not enough on road time.
If you get a switched on driver with natural ability then life becomes so much easier but that unfortunately does not happen very often.
Ideally drivers need more time to learn and the trainers need more time to train but with drivers not wanting to pay a fortune and the training companies objective is to get them through their test then the out come is exactly what we have today.
And some know it all might decide to to train you for things that you don’t even get tested for, but he knows best, he assures us