This was a fun, if not slightly challenging docking job for a sleeper cab with 53ft trailer, if you ask me. Good setups are critical to making even seemingly difficult backings look much easier than they really are. There were a couple of times where I would have GOAL'd to be sure of my setups if it hadn't been for the fact my trainee/cameraman was also spotting for me and clearing me with a thumb up in the two spots where I would have otherwise GOAL'd if this were done solo.
When doing blind side entries, I make liberal use of adjusting my right flat mirror in order to maximize my ability to see that side. I also lean far forward in the seat to aid that, though I still rely more on my convex and spot mirrors to give me a wider perspective view.
EDIT: In an effort to help reduce the likelihood of commenters asking the same question that has already been answered more than once, there are good reasons why I chose to blind side this rather than attempt a straight back or sight side procedure.
1. Straight back: it was not possible to perform a straight back procedure. The driveway across the street was blocked by a gate. A Freymiller driver who docked in before me tried to do exactly this. His trailer didn't even come close to getting enough angle toward the receiver's driveway to allow for him to even "walk" his tractor more to the right to create the necessary angle. The 4-wheelers parked on the receiver's side of the street also took away a lot of space that could have otherwise been used to make a straight back setup more likely to be possible.
2. For sight side backing, the 4-wheeler parked on the sight side end of the driveway is closer to the end of the driveway than the 4-wheeler parked on the blind side end of the driveway is. With this being a cul-de-sac, it is necessary to allow the trailer to do ALL of the work on its own without "helping" it rotate more quickly with counter-steering. Counter-steering would have just caused the tractor to run out of space to work with, or would have otherwise caused the tractor and/or front of the trailer to run into one of the 4-wheelers that were parked across the street from the receiver. Since the 4-wheeler on the blind side end of the driveway was further from the driveway than the sight side 4-wheeler was, it also meant there was more room to work with for the trailer to rotate blind side into the driveway than for a sight side backing. The amount of extra usable rotate space likely isn't as apparent in the video as it was in person. The fact I started my setup turn a bit early and didn't get the tandems to enter the driveway closer to the blind side curb don't help to illustrate how much different the space to work with was also.
3. I was already waiting in the street from the blind side position while Freymiller unloaded. Between the fact I have confidence in my blind siding skills and the fact I would have had to exit the cul-de-sac, go back around several blocks to return for a sight side setup, plus know that day cab drivers with pup trailers were also occasionally coming in and completely blocking the driveway to unload their own freight....blind siding it in was just a no brainer decision to make, as far as I was concerned.