Straight Backing Nightmare

I wanted to add that I don't think 6 ten hour days (Mon thru Sat) is helping either. We all came back Mon looking like Walking Dead extras lol. We are all tired

Karen

Errol:

Thank you for the encouraging words. I am so glad Trucking Truth is available to assist us & let us vent, if necessary. No one else really fully understands the demands unless they have been to trucking school.

Karen

I figured out how to back by using the bottom of the steering wheel. One hand, 2 hand don't matter if I see trailer starting to move out of driver mirror take bottom hands to passenger side and vice versa I could never back thinking I must do the opposite and using the bottom of the steering wheel I let mirrors do the talking and point it the way I need the trailer to go

Karen,

You can do this! I have a buddy that can't even back his own boat trailer and he went out and got his CDL a couple of years ago. It's pretty darn funny because he still has me backing the trailer whenever it's anything but a straight shot or there are any other boats on the ramp. LOL!

JJ

I feel your pain. I trained in a reefer.. then they put me in a flat bed.. that traiker was all over the lines lol. I learned in a flatbed that there are two reflectors on the front corners of the trailer. If I could see one I wasn't perfectly straight. Same thing with the reefer... if the numbers are not even the you are already drifting. As stated 0r3viousky make small corrections. You will get it