Backing Practice 02

This is how I do it. "Hey yard dog! $75 if u out this trailer in door 9! Thanks man!"

No yard dog? No problem.

"Hey Charles! (My co-driver) Get up man, I'm out of hours! Thanks buddy!"

Yeah I didn't mean go into 8 then 9. I meant IF there is LOTS of space, I'll do a blindside. This ain't school. All we have to do is get it safely in the door. Lots of GOAL and pull ups.

Here's a link for STREET VIEW. No tractors on the trailers, but with your tractor there's not all that much room.

Some have said they would line up parallel to the planters. If you're parallel to the planter and right next to it, and you back up and try to turn either right or left, you will roll into the curb.

So far, Rob S.'s and Steve's ideas might work. Persian, when you make a 90° sharp turn, (I believe you are heading "down" in the photo) turn right of left? Go forward or back up?

My answer - actually, the way I did it - tomorrow morning.

EXCELENT, excellent, excellent! Thanks Errol. Learning different setups, and different ways to back, than I would have done it is fun, and makes me a better driver. I didn't think of Rob's- do 8 first, then offset to 9.

Errol, I'm looking forward to "03".

Rob- I wrote your name by mistake- Steve HBG is who I meant- to do 8 first, then offset to 9.

This is what I did:

Enter from the bottom of the photo, along the right curb. This keeps the tandems as close as possible to where I want them. Then turn sharp left into the driveway of the company on the other side. Danger! Will Robinson! Danger! You know someone is watching from that other office. Stay away from those cars, those curbs.

That got the trailer aimed, sort of, at door 9. Back in, GOAL as needed. With the short space from the door out to the curb, I had to see-saw several times to get the back end over 2 feet to the door.

Yes, going out, don't drive like your car - go out, turn left and hope for the best. With the big turn around to the right, it makes everybody happy if you make the right turn (no curbs going this way), and make a victory lap around the turn-around.

(Note to Steve_HBG: "360" means turn all the way around and go the same way you were going. I know you meant "180". Now don't let it happen again!

Wait, didn't you say in your original post,

There are some driveways across the street, but that's another company. Just like in that game Operation, if you so much as touch anything over there you are sooo out of the game.

The way you phrased that I thought you meant you couldn't enter their property.

Wait, didn't you say in your original post,

There are some driveways across the street, but that's another company. Just like in that game Operation, if you so much as touch anything over there you are sooo out of the game.

The way you phrased that I thought you meant you couldn't enter their property.

Well, I just drove on the driveway. But it's really not a good idea to scratch anything on that property. The operation game's objective is to remove objects without touching the sides of the hole.

OK, now I understand, thanks!