As the world’s worse reverser - just want to share something it took me ages to learn.
In fact, it shouldn’t have done, but it did.
This isn’t for you guys who have no problems reversing.
Although I’m opening myself up to criticism, I want to share this, in case, somebody out there is struggling with putting the ------g trailer where you want it, in fact this ain’t a lesson, this is a tiny little thing that if missed or unnoticed will mess your reversing for a long time. Excuse me the experts -
Okay, for ages, I took so long to get used to reversing successfully.
I thought I was just a Thick Cut, slice of bread.
But I had missed one tiny flaw, no, not my brain - but:
It’s embarrassing, but am just going to come out and say it anyway…
You know when you are reversing onto a bay and you get the trailer wheels perfectly in between the lines…? but, that the tractor unit is off at an angle and…not straight in line with the tràiler and you’ve still got a distance to go back, well, what I was doing… (oh God)
was trying to get it all straightened up whilst still going back
so - so by the time I had brought the unit in line with the tràiler the trailer wheels had gone off onto the lines or were going to go onto the lines, and correcting this is mathematically impossible, this way.
I recently discovered, that - At the point of getting all your trailer wheels nicely in line between the yellow lines painted on the ground - if your unit is not straightened up in line with the trailer, then just straighten up the unit with a shunt forward. I know we shunt forward anyway. I m not talking about a normal shunt to adjust the position of the tractor and trailer am talking about a single shunt just to get the unit in line with the trailer rear wheels when you’re between the lines and if you do that - then you just continue back again with a straight line reverse.
But until I got that tiny job done, I’d spend ages trying to straighten every thing up on the reverse… and then going backwards and forwards trying to set the same thing up again.
I pray this helps at least one person who is making the same mistake as me.
(at least, I’ll know, there’s two of us) and I only got the solution off an American Trucker on YouTube after months, after re-training to find the problem, after trial and error, error, error, I finally got it off YouTube. Thank [zb] !!
