Parallel Parking Help

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Va firefighter 's Comment
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I am having trouble with parallel parking. I can get the trailer into the box, but have trouble knowing when to turn the wheel to get the tractor in. . Does anyone have some advance?

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Rob S.'s Comment
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Don't be afraid to adjust your mirrors during the backing maneuver. Tilt them to see the cones/tires where the action is.

Trucker Kearsey 's Comment
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If the trailer is in the box you have done great! To get th e front of the trailer into the box you have to turn toward the box. To get the tractor I. You turn away from the box.

The secret is at what point you turned the traiker once the back tires crossed the line as you moved in on an angle.

When you are trying to turn the tractor do you not have enough room in front so the tractor is hitting the cones or is the trailet in that back hitting cones? What is hapoening?

Va firefighter 's Comment
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Thankyou for the help. My problem is after I get my trailer into the box, I lose site of the cones and end up hitting them.

When I back in, I come in at a slight angle backing stright. That way I on have to make small turns on the wheel. I lose my cone in my morrow once it's in the box

Trucker Kearsey 's Comment
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Sounds like the angle is wrong. I'm pretty sure... that when you are lined up right on the angle you see and are in line with the 3rd cone in the mirror. Back straight til the white line is between the tandems. Then hard turn toward the box. The trailer will continue to go back. Stick ur head put window and u should see the line beside u. Then hard turn the other way.

The set up is basically half of an offset and at the angle you should be in line with the 3rd cone.

Tandems:

Tandem Axles

A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".

Tandem:

Tandem Axles

A set of axles spaced close together, legally defined as more than 40 and less than 96 inches apart by the USDOT. Drivers tend to refer to the tandem axles on their trailer as just "tandems". You might hear a driver say, "I'm 400 pounds overweight on my tandems", referring to his trailer tandems, not his tractor tandems. Tractor tandems are generally just referred to as "drives" which is short for "drive axles".

Va firefighter 's Comment
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Thankyou for the help. I'll try it the next time I am in class

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