young-jnr ,that’s brilliant news with the lorries , landed on your feet with the new job.
When parking up and reversing in the MSA ‘s , you will find it’s the foreign drivers that get out of their cab to act as a banks man to guide you in, sometimes a few of them will also help out but unfortunately the English driver won’t get out the cab and just sit there rolling their eyes and then do a slow and sarcastic hand clap to other English drivers who did nothing to help out as the reverse has a captive audience for their entertainment.
The Womens Insitute famously slow hand clapped Tony Blair at a conference.
With reversing there’s a tendency to over think it, and one day you will definitely do it without even thinking about it.
For the turning circle on class one lorries in a tight space, especially the goods area in shopping malls, outlet retail centres, and supermarkets goods in areas, you may find it easier to remove all the lines at the rear of the tractor unit then press the shunt button on the side of the trailer to completely turn around without snapping and snagging the lines.
The shunt button allows the trailer to move without the lines or Suzies attached.
They easily get caught on anything protruding from the front corners of the trailer if you don’t remove all of them , then there’s the expense of a call out to get new lines and someone to fit them unless you carry spare air and electric lines and have a tool box to do it yourself to save the call out charge.
Supermarkets such as Asda have relatively small goods in yard and the turning circle area looks very small especially when they litter the area with their abandoned kit and use it as a storage area which makes that area even smaller but it can be done on full lock and always get their staff to watch you when turning around as you could pop the tyres on jagged edges from their yard junk everywhere.
Some shopping centres have a turn table that the lorry sits on and it turns around completely the face the other way.