Thank God for your videos man! I've been out on my own driving solo for about 3 weeks now and every day I watch your videos. I'm getting a little better at backing, but I'm still super nervous every time I park at loves or the shipper/reciever

You are the best as always. Thank you!

Just now I'm beginning to realize why so many of us struggle for long periods of time with these movements. The combinations that are possible with the tractor and trailer elude us when it comes to correcting a misplaced trailer in relation to the parking spot.

Finally I found a video on showing how to pull up everything on the straight line back in this far just shows you how to back but I have to pull up a lot and I cut it the wrong way you've been very helpful!

These videos are extremely helpful Thank you ❤

I continue to look at these videos for more information to aid me in parking.

Good job

great great video man

I struggle so much with simple things like this I find myself over steering constantly. I gave up practicing a while back. 1 go through great things to avoid any backing. 2 get myself in the general area and it either goes okay with me correcting a lot or horribly wrong

This is the one video I've been searching for. As simple as it seems I have eternally struggled with alignment. As I back into the loading dock, the rear of my trailer is not perfectly aligned with the dock. I've been accomodated by the warehouse crew with the plate extensions. Yet, I couldn't make the minor corrections necessary for proper alignment. I will look at this video a thousand times if needed until I mentally understand what is going on.

Great couching! Will be very useful for me and many more drivers. Thanks and appreciated for teaching.

Something bizarre happened to me on my last trip out. I was able to park in tight conditions even though I struggled to but I did. In much simpler parking scenarios I was finding myself struggling horrendously to park the truck. I'm talking about P.O. facilities with no trucks anywhere and enough space to fully straight back with no adjustments. I'm talking about a simple straight back. In the absence of obstacles as guideposts which should make it simple, I was lost as to line up the trailer and the dock. It was as if the wide open space caused my mind to think no maneuvering was necessary. It was quite bizarre. It was embarrassing to be viewed by the warehouse staff watch me struggle for so long in what was the simplest of parking scenarios. In difficult parking scenarios I appeared to be a veteran with decades of experience. It was as if there were two separate drivers within the same body. One with poor skills and another not. Maybe the lack of guideposts? Maybe the wide open spaces created a loss mentality, of being lost what to do? The trailer was swinging widely as I was going front and back trying to find my bearings.

I had a problem with this maneuver, thx sir.

I was just thinking I need to learn more about this sort of thing. Trying to move a trailer over just a little bit to hit a dock just right took me a lot longer then I thought it should.

I always say, trucking isn’t easy...but it’s the other drivers that make it hard.

Thank you, that just answered my question I asked like 5 mins ago on another vid. Great vids, thanks from a newbie

Anticipating what to do dependent on what angle the tractor is to the trailer and the trailer to the loading dock is the primary step.

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Excellent! Thanks bro.

4:11 is how I failed my skills test parallel to the right I didn’t know how to fix it. Watching this video beforehand could have really helped.

When we decide to finally align the TRACTOR and the TRAILER to straight back, we have moved the trailer over by more degrees than we need and we scratch our head asking WHY? We have to anticipate when we have gone too far and that is difficult to do as a newbie. I'm analyzing the video and others to determine the micromovements necessary to anticipate the over- correction.

Thanks

thank you so much for all your hard work and good work

I wanna play it 😀

This explains a lot thank you.

From this one video, you could decompose it and create multiple videos analyzing the micro-movements which make all the difference in the final alignment between the tractor, the trailer and the dock / parking slot.

The counterintuitive nature of driving a tractor trailer is manifested clearly in this video. If one wants to move the trailer over to a slot on the left, one would think the logical course of action would be to move the tractor to the left. That is the main problem. I finally realize that moving the tractor to the left will not bring the trailer to the left but to the right. This was a a mistake I would make over and over again. I finally realize what everyone meant by driving the TRAILER. One is driving the TRAILER not the TRACTOR. One Uses the TRACTOR to drive the TRAILER. I would move the TRACTOR to the left thinking solely on the TRACTOR. I feel this is a mistake many of us make. If the tractor is only being driven, then that would be the logical course of action. With a trailer connected, the logical move in order to park the trailer on a slot to the left of the trailer is to move the tractor to the right. . But I have come to an epiphany thanks to you.

3:58 - HA! you just showed me how to fix the thing I'm currently trying to figure out. No other trucks around, but trailer is lined up with dock but truck is jacked around because of tight space.

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So if you are too close to a trailer to the left or right of you, the first movement is to pull forward slightly to the right. That is STEP 1. If I am correct on this, then I am beginning to see my problem. Hopefully, you can answer my question. I reviewed the video several times and that is the prescription for the problem. It is an initial pull-up with a slight movement to the right. Depending on the primary angular positioning between TRACTOR and TRAILER, determines how far to steer the tractor to the RIGHT.

Do you have any video on backing up a set of B-trains into a dock door

I see the mistakes I would continue to make despite watching and re-watching the video. In the first scenario, I would continue turning the TRACTOR to the right thinking that would position the rear of my TRAILER in the proper place. Yet, what you do which seems so strange to my mind is that after a brief movement to the right, you move it to the left. That left steer movement ensures the rear of the TRAILER is in the proper place to back up and enter the slot. It is the left steer motion after the right steer that my mind rejects in error. I just have to take it at face value why it works and to do it. I'll continue watching until it cements it in my mind. I'm going out again trucking in one week with a CO-driver. He is completely afraid of parking and is bad at it. Good for me. It will give many more parking opportunities to practice what I am seeing here.

I've written on over correcting but another problem I've faced is under correcting. Many of us unable to anticipate how many degrees to steer over don't turn enough and the trailer is not moving by the necessary amount. Between over and under correcting the problem, we are not solving the problem.

Do you have a video on pre trip inspection?

I just got back from a trip and my analysis to the extreme paid off. I still need to improve in certain areas specifically inching over that massive trailer when it is off by fractions from the loading dock. The driver I went out with could not park at all which was perfect for me since it forced me to make decisions I never had to and park in spots I never thought I could.

Less is more. Good lesson.

I'd like to see more on this using 90 degree alley dock scenarios, for ex, left rear of trailer tight to the left rear corner but not parallel to the parking space.

for some reason it seems so difficult in real life 😭

I realize now this involves OPPOSITE THINKING (my term).. What we think would be the logical procedure in fact is incorrect. For example the first backup in the video demanded moving right yet I would improperly move left. Moving left requires more space and time than is available and/or allowed. As you explained, there is an economy of time and space by moving right. Yet moving right is counterintuitive. I have to rewire my thinking.

Can you tell me more about the simulation software you're using? It's not something available for a standard pc....Right?

It's been four months since my last post. I realize you can't make a rule out of the amount of steering wheel turns which occur in the simulation and project it onto the real world of trucking. At best, it can be used as guide but not a hard and fast rule which would have been perfect for us newbies or those of us who struggle to park the trailer. I spent many hours counting the number of times the steering wheel turns in the simulation and using that info in whatever particular parking situation the simulation demonstrates. I slowed the speed of the KZfaq videos to be able to count the exact number of steering wheel turns in the simulation. IT DIDN"T TRANSLATE over from simulation to actuality. Simply put, it didn't work. I would mostly over-step or over-correct or under-correct the difference between the loading dock and rear of trailer. At times, it was substantial. It was disconcerting to say the least because I thought I had developed an exact ratio of steering wheel turns to rear of trailer positions to be able to calculate based on turns exactly where the rear of the trailer would be at. I believed I had found an algorithm. I did not! On my next drive out, I will adapt to compensate for the differential errors and hopefully come to general proportions of turns to placements. For now it's a wash.

When will the game be released?