Backing up a trailer

[TripleR]

That's what I've been doing for several months and I still find it tricky and make mistakes !

Beautiful scenery.

 

[Wis Bang]

The worst I ever had to back was a 5 yard dump truck with a short narrow air compressor.

My boss always caught me when I had the fuel truck. I had to learn how to steer compressors using the center mirror and watching the raincap on the exhaust as it stuck up above the fuel tanks...

Always pull up until the tractor and the trailer are in line...Practice, practice, practice...

As a driver trainer, I'd get kids from training schools. I'd take 'em to our rail to truck yard and have them back down between two rows of railroad cars that were not parallel. They would constantly swivel head between both mirrors until I stopped them and had them look at their tracks in the dust...looked like a snake was slithering down the roadway! Got them to focus on one side mirror and occasionally check the other side and the tracks got alot straighter...Practice, practice, practice...

 

[D7E]

My boss always caught me when I had the fuel truck. I had to learn how to steer compressors using the center mirror and watching the raincap on the exhaust as it stuck up above the fuel tanks...

Always pull up until the tractor and the trailer are in line...Practice, practice, practice...

As a driver trainer, I'd get kids from training schools. I'd take 'em to our rail to truck yard and have them back down between two rows of railroad cars that were not parallel. They would constantly swivel head between both mirrors until I stopped them and had them look at their tracks in the dust...looked like a snake was slithering down the roadway! Got them to focus on one side mirror and occasionally check the other side and the tracks got alot straighter...Practice, practice, practice...

I had a few years instructing tractor driving for proficiency tests. from 16 year old kids to 60 year olds and it's amazing how much faster the kids pick it up . Again big stuff though 150+hp tractors and 30-50 ft trailers.

 

[dcyrilc]

I had a few years instructing tractor driving for proficiency tests. from 16 year old kids to 60 year olds and it's amazing how much faster the kids pick it up . Again big stuff though 150+hp tractors and 30-50 ft trailers.

Everything I towed was always bumper pull. Only had the opportunity to do a 5th wheel once hauling equipment between jobsites on a lowboy trailer. That's a whole different world when it comes to backing.

 

[soulasphil]

Beautiful scenery.

Yes the Atlantic coast is very pleasant, but this week we have been invaded by strange creatures !

 

[dcyrilc]

Yes the Atlantic coast is very pleasant, but this week we have been invaded by strange creatures !

Those are some strange critters. I'd recommend being careful if you're going out there alone. When you took the pix, I'd say some of them were sizing you up for dinner.

 

[ShenandoahJoe]

I went and read the old threads on putting a hitch on your front-end loader. After an hour or so of that, the idea came to me: when I have to haul stuff out of that dead-end, I'm just going to shove the trailer into place with the bucket, then hitch it up when it's time to pull it out. D'oh!

 

[dcyrilc]

I went and read the old threads on putting a hitch on your front-end loader. After an hour or so of that, the idea came to me: when I have to haul stuff out of that dead-end, I'm just going to shove the trailer into place with the bucket, then hitch it up when it's time to pull it out. D'oh!

Sometimes, the best plans end up being the simplist ones.:thumbsup:

 

[some zilch]

the worst thing i can think of to back up is my little tow-behind leaf sweeper. short little tongue makes it pretty difficult.

OTOH, i can back up a chain of 4 portable traffic signals (used on road/bridge construction sites), anywhere they need to go, double semi trailers, double hay wagons, and i used to routinly back my triaxle lowboy up the shoulder of the NY thruway for miles with asphalt milling machines on so i did not have to go to the next exit, turn around, go back up, go through the exit, and come back again...........

 

[D7E]

this is good !
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