Evil8Beezle:
…Sorry for hijacking your thread a bit Micky!
No worries - the banter is a lot more entertaining than me waffling on about how ■■■■■ I am at reversing.
Evil8Beezle:
Anyway, great post you made there, and I did actually LOL when i read number 6. However, i agree that it’s probably a good idea! Glad you have sussed it, and I found staying relaxed and calm makes my VAN reversing easier!
Why is No 6 is funny? Do you mean No 5? I brought the toy truck a few weeks back but felt too daft to admit it - it is only because someone else suggested it on another post that I was brave enough to own up to it. It does help though
Evil8Beezle:
…Sorry for hijacking your thread a bit Micky!
No worries - the banter is a lot more entertaining than me waffling on about how [zb] I am at reversing.
Evil8Beezle:
Anyway, great post you made there, and I did actually LOL when i read number 6. However, i agree that it’s probably a good idea! Glad you have sussed it, and I found staying relaxed and calm makes my VAN reversing easier!
Why is No 6 is funny? Do you mean No 5? I brought the toy truck a few weeks back but felt too daft to admit it - it is only because someone else suggested it on another post that I was brave enough to own up to it. It does help though
Yep, my mistake, number 5 it is! I should try paying better attention… Oh crap, TREE!!!
I’m considering buying one now, maybe I should get the Eddie Stobbarts EagerBeaver edition?
Evil8Beezle:
…Sorry for hijacking your thread a bit Micky!
No worries - the banter is a lot more entertaining than me waffling on about how [zb] I am at reversing.
Evil8Beezle:
Anyway, great post you made there, and I did actually LOL when i read number 6. However, i agree that it’s probably a good idea! Glad you have sussed it, and I found staying relaxed and calm makes my VAN reversing easier!
Why is No 6 is funny? Do you mean No 5? I brought the toy truck a few weeks back but felt too daft to admit it - it is only because someone else suggested it on another post that I was brave enough to own up to it. It does help though
Yep, my mistake, number 5 it is! I should try paying better attention… Oh crap, TREE!!!
I’m considering buying one now, maybe I should get the Eddie Stobbarts EagerBeaver edition?
That’ll be the one that gets a new name every day, and he should really be tacho exempt, because he never goes 50 miles from base, and his main trade is talking ■■■■■■■■.
I was asked to raise the trailer suspension when backed onto a bay last night; I managed to raise the trailer up as requested but I am not 100% sure on the operations, the raising and lowering of the trailer was demonstrated during my training but I forget the finer details.
The suspension did lift but very slowly - should I have left the engine running?
Where do you position the handle to return the trailer back to normal ride height?
If the engine is not running it just uses the remaining air in the tank.
Once you are ready to get back on road and want the trailer back to running height just pull the handle back out towards you this will then set it to normal running height
Allstar Colemanator:
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got regarding reversing is before you start the reverse make sure truck and trailer are in a straight line. I know this isn’t always going to be possible but it helped me. Try it
It took about 7 weeks but I am finally starting to feel more comfortable with reversing, given a reasonable amount of space I can get onto the average docking bay and reverse into a bay marked out with painted lines such as those used for side tipping without any problem.
I still find it a bit of a struggle to park up between trailers when the space between them is tight especially when coming in at an angle as I find that it is easy to misjudge where the back end of the truck is - the slightest angle on the trailer and it starts getting close to bumping the trailer parked on the opposite side also I am no good at reversing in the dark - I just don’t have the experience to be fully confident where the trailer is without being able to see it.
All the tips, help and advise given here certainly helped, things sort of finally clicked when I started imagining that I was driving the trailer in from the back end, once I had got that into my head it got much easier to visualize and steer into the space.
The work I do mainly involves delivering to distribution centres, with regards to the reversing how does this compare with store deliveries, I imagine that the space is more limited and the reversing more difficult with store deliveries?
Wrt store deliveries -bit varies greatly. You mighy get an ok store, or a ■■■ tight one. However there is an extra bonus of reversing from a high street blocking the road. Will either train your nerves to be like steel or reversing in one go from any position or both
Mickey. I suspect the reason that you are worried about clipping the ’ opposite trailer ', may be because you are not presenting the trailer straight enough. Just out of curiosity, can you try a few reverses with slightly delaying your initial wheel movement? In other words, reverse back a tad more than you have been doing, and then have to put a harder lock on.
It sounds to me like your initial angle is a bit shallow. It’s something I had a habit of doing at first.
eagerbeaver:
Mickey. I suspect the reason that you are worried about clipping the ’ opposite trailer ', may be because you are not presenting the trailer straight enough. Just out of curiosity, can you try a few reverses with slightly delaying your initial wheel movement? In other words, reverse back a tad more than you have been doing, and then have to put a harder lock on.
It sounds to me like your initial angle is a bit shallow. It’s something I had a habit of doing at first.
eagerbeaver:
Mickey. I suspect the reason that you are worried about clipping the ’ opposite trailer ', may be because you are not presenting the trailer straight enough. Just out of curiosity, can you try a few reverses with slightly delaying your initial wheel movement? In other words, reverse back a tad more than you have been doing, and then have to put a harder lock on.
It sounds to me like your initial angle is a bit shallow. It’s something I had a habit of doing at first.
Spot On!!!
That is exactly what I need to do, I know it but still have difficulty in putting it into practice, I have got to get out of the habit of steering too quickly towards what I can see when I hang my head out of the window.
Ooops make a ■■■■ of one - was told to put it on bay 75, three empty spaces either side, ample room, it shouldn’t of been a problem and all was going well until I realised that I was actually reversing onto bay 74, tried to correct it mid-reverse but ended up somewhere betwixt and between, it took a good few shunts to get back on track but it looked bad another for another driver offered to help me out
I got it there safely in the end so no big deal but with hindsight I should of pulled forward and started over
I often have to have another squint at the bay numbers and don’t always find them that easy to see in the dark with flood lights casting shadows… Anyone else ‘lost the bay’?
It does help though 
or both