nightline:
Give the best of them here a 30 foot with rear steering wheels and I guarantee they will [zb] it up big time, good days bad days, in and out, up and down, all in a days work
Try a 20’ skelly ,you’ll chase it all day long
You sound like a one legged man in an arse kicking contest going off the above
Er. isn’t that why you’re meant to collapse them down once lined up? I always did. Maybe I was doing something wrong. Hate to teach momma to ■■■■ eggs and all
At a guess he is reffering to a 20ft skelly, not a 40ft slider, like one of these.
We have at least 15 lorry’s a day in from a very large eastern European haulier. Yellow trucks blue curtains on trailers and another 10 or so from various other eastern bloc firms and I’d say 90% can’t drive that we’ll going forwards let alone backwards.
We have at least one a week blow a trailer tyre getting on to the weighbridge which is a little tight but nothing to bad and the wall which they load alongside is covered in scrapes despite been super wide and plenty of room to get straight.
kr79:
I find when I have to do a super tight reverse and no one’s there I will nail it in one however if there’s people standing round watching I’d end up needing a shunt to back on to a football field.
Also most of my driving has been on tippers landfill bulkers etc and when I done a bit of general haulage it tool me a while to get used of backing on to a bay and having both sides touching the dock even though it looked straight from the cab
midlifetrucker:
Some people can drive artics for years without having to reverse. Horses for courses. If you do a lot of market deliveries or farm deliveries or collections you don’t have to do a lot accurate reversing. Fridgework will involve more bay work as its rdc deliveries.
I take it you haven’t done much farm work by that quote…
I’ve witnessed poor reversing from all and sundry. To counter some of the EE slagging going on, I’ve also witnessed several instances of UK trucks driven by British drivers getting in to a fluster and failing badly at a reverse, only for a “Johnny Foreigner” offer to have a go and proceed to get the truck in in one go, despite being sat on the opposite side of the cab to what he’s used to. I’ve seen this happen with at least one Pole and a Hungarian in the past, plus Dutch and German drivers.
And yes, I’ve seen the opposite. I myself have had to reverse in a Hungarian truck from that well known company with smiling sun logo when neither of the two drivers in said vehicle had been driving for more than 3 months and after 30 minutes of trying, gave up and asked me to do it for them. In their case it was chronic over steering while trying to back in to a very tight bay with raised walls down either side of the trailer where the warehouse floor is level with the deck of the trailer.
As for me, I don’t consider myself that good at reversing and will always try and take the easiest route but the one way to make sure I ■■■■ things up is to have too much room and nothing nearby the line up with. I’ve being driving for over 10 years now and do wish I could be better at reversing but my job doesn’t involve an awful lot of it. In a 5000km week I may only have to reverse a few times and even then they’re not necessarily tight spots, so when the occasional one does rear its head its hit and miss. Sometimes it goes in first time, the next time it may take 5 shunts.
i almost nailed a nice blindside reverse at yodel yeovil this morning, had to take a couple of shunts anyway to move reposition the trailer couple of inches to the right, but struggled with a pretty simple reversing out of the yard. irony.
had a nice chat with an OD from Wolverhampton though who agreed to help and whom i helped with his blindside in return. He did it well though:)
There is no shame in asking for help. Ignore the big ■■■■■■■■ titheads on here. I can jump into a company Arctic tomorrow, but have told the present gaffer I’m not confident enough. So I’ll stay in my class 2 for now.
I would love reverse challenge with some of you Big mouths anti EE here. Car, van, class 2 or class 1 I’m all in.
P.S. On my last job I had minimum of 6 backup at bays per shift, regardless of season(heavy winter, sun blinded, fog), time of day, exhaustion etc. in a 22m+ truck. And every month they rotated pick up places, so it was different every time.
bigvern1:
There is no shame in asking for help. Ignore the big ■■■■■■■■ titheads on here. I can jump into a company Arctic tomorrow, but have told the present gaffer I’m not confident enough. So I’ll stay in my class 2 for now.
Well said m8 wish I was one of those super fantastic drivers who don’t sit down when they go for ■■■■■ I will always help anyone out when reversing because I aint got a swollen ego
Dolph:
I would love reverse challenge with some of you Big mouths anti EE here. Car, van, class 2 or class 1 I’m all in.
P.S. On my last job I had minimum of 6 backup at bays per shift, regardless of season(heavy winter, sun blinded, fog), time of day, exhaustion etc. in a 22m+ truck. And every month they rotated pick up places, so it was different every time.
bigvern1:
There is no shame in asking for help. Ignore the big ■■■■■■■■ titheads on here. I can jump into a company Arctic tomorrow, but have told the present gaffer I’m not confident enough. So I’ll stay in my class 2 for now.
Well said m8 wish I was one of those super fantastic drivers who don’t sit down when they go for [zb] I will always help anyone out when reversing because I aint got a swollen ego
Got to say one of the good points about working in Motorsport is that there is a fair bit of camaraderie between the truck drivers, regardless of nationality, so if anybody see’s another one struggling to get in a ■■■■■■■■■■■■ you’ll always get help.
Dolph:
I would love reverse challenge with some of you Big mouths anti EE here. Car, van, class 2 or class 1 I’m all in.
P.S. On my last job I had minimum of 6 backup at bays per shift, regardless of season(heavy winter, sun blinded, fog), time of day, exhaustion etc. in a 22m+ truck. And every month they rotated pick up places, so it was different every time.
And how many flipflops have CDL class A + doubles and triples experience? You are the exception to the rule. 99.9% of flipflops can’t drive for ■■■■, which in fairness is only about 10% worse than the majority of the natives here.
Dolph:
I would love reverse challenge with some of you Big mouths anti EE here. Car, van, class 2 or class 1 I’m all in.
P.S. On my last job I had minimum of 6 backup at bays per shift, regardless of season(heavy winter, sun blinded, fog), time of day, exhaustion etc. in a 22m+ truck. And every month they rotated pick up places, so it was different every time.
Do such reversing contests exist at truck shows ?
Truck show is great compered to mine in Idaho with foot of snow or under mountain back up parking, at the mine I had to back up a mile or so, it was freaking hard work. And not because truck show is easy, but because there is people to help you if you need them.
I drove with driver from all over the world, some good some bad, the worst I have seen was Bulgarian like me, I wouldn’t trust him with my mountain bicycle. In the same time there is a lot of good Bulgarians, Poles, Serbians etc. drivers, so for some here to say all EE can’t drive/park is total BS.
P.S. Who in their right mind will drive in flipflops…
bigvern1:
There is no shame in asking for help. Ignore the big ■■■■■■■■ titheads on here. I can jump into a company Arctic tomorrow, but have told the present gaffer I’m not confident enough. So I’ll stay in my class 2 for now.
bigvern1:
There is no shame in asking for help. Ignore the big ■■■■■■■■ titheads on here. I can jump into a company Arctic tomorrow, but have told the present gaffer I’m not confident enough. So I’ll stay in my class 2 for now.
No, I wouldn’t be confident in all that snow and ice either.
Dolph:
I would love reverse challenge with some of you Big mouths anti EE here. Car, van, class 2 or class 1 I’m all in.
P.S. On my last job I had minimum of 6 backup at bays per shift, regardless of season(heavy winter, sun blinded, fog), time of day, exhaustion etc. in a 22m+ truck. And every month they rotated pick up places, so it was different every time.
Do such reversing contests exist at truck shows ?
Don’t think so, but a visit to Pallex tipping and loading bays sort out the wheat from the chaff on a nightly basis, critesism ranging from laughing, abuse and the down right embaresment of having to let rthe shunter driver or another driver putting it on the bay for you.
blue estate:
Also DAF’s have their blind spot mirrors on top not bottom like rest of trucks or is it just ridged LF
The CFs have their blind spot mirrors on the bottom.
Makes no difference where they are as the often get obscured by the quarter window.[emoji35]
That quarter window on CF’s is great when reversing at night in the ■■■■ down rain and you can’t open the window to get a clear view
RE: the thread topic, doesn’t matter if you have been driving for 30+ years, if you haven’t done a job that involves much precision/tight space manoeuvring then chances are there are guys 30 years your junior who are better than you.
Some guys might think they are champs because they have been ■■■■■■■ it blindside into a tight farm gate on milk tankers for 20 years, but put them into an environment where you have got to reverse 90 degrees onto a bay & position the trailer wheels straight & central between two banana bars and they’ll probably find themselves taking a shunt or two. It just all depends what work you have done.
Or in the MSA, when a driver uses the ‘abnormal load vehicles only’ bay, or the fuel island, to park, despite the fact that plenty of easy reverse parking spots are available. They often wear a perma-viz too, but that may be coincidental. .
