Try the real old school way. Pull past the drive.. throw on the 4ways.. and blindside it into the 130° turn against nonstop traffic. They'll stop. 😂 That's how we had to do it when I learned doing LTL in Chicago and the suburbs 30 years ago.
Wow. I knew you would make this look easy. My setup was a bit off, I pulled into the road but didn’t go left enough,and it was a struggle to get in. This will make the next time a wee bit easier. Thanks a million.
The second method he showed is how I alley dock with a lot of the small Kroger stores I go to with no open street in the front 😂😂😂 so I had to come in from the building side, make a U-turn and line up hugging the ramp to my left in a straight line to give yourself plenty of room in the front for the truck to chase the trailer as you jackknife into the dock. It gets super easy the more you do it, takes about 5 minutes...Like a glove!
Hey man just wanted to say thank you for these videos. Im a new driver. Trained 6 otr weeks and I'm not confident in my parking until seeing these videos. Thanks
@@dell7054 wow man. I had trouble finding a good starter company so had to settle. Company wanted me with trainer 3 months.. I said hell no. Left after 6 weeks
@@The_ProfessionalKid Yeah they wanted to pay me .40 cent a mile.. Lol.. I got my experience. My trainer was ok . Was driving from day 2 no issues.. Drove about 600 to 650 miles A day with him. while he slept lol.. Little bad with backing but will get better over time.. Dont know how people work company drivers making pennies for years and then quite or be owner opss.. I couldn't drive for anyone for piss poor pay.. Gona do my own thing.. and should be ready by dec..
There are lots of companies who help you get your CDL like Swift, CR England, Werner and many more. And then you work for them. The great thing about them is they teach you with the equipment that you will use in the real world. Lots of cdl schools only use 28 for trailers.
I'm on this account and I had this store once during peak season. Traffic was crazy and it took forever. On top of that, add snow, a best buy van in the way of your setup, and rush hour. It's ridiculous. Plus I was a rookie at the time. I can knock it out now, but it's still a pain in the a$$.
It was a Werner driver who suggested it to me, do if you work for them there is a good chance. Fingers crossedv that there is no trailer in the other dock. If you come across any crazy docks let me know.
The easiest way would be backing off the street. If your gonna have to wait mines well just back in. Old head told me anything sketchy it easier to back in then pull in. Not be able to turn around it will kind of eliminate the unknown.
It looks so much easier with an eagle eye view, I’ve tough of taking my drone an just have it hover above and have it and display on my iPad while backing into some tight ass spots
@@MyTruckingSkills a little dji spark , but it has gps so you can fly it up an it will stay in place just hovering above you ,and you can stream the feed to your phone or tablet and have a perfect eagle eye view
Well done, in my opinion I honestly believe you could have gotten the 2nd method on the 1st attempt had you gotten close to the curb at 6:47 and continued to hug it until you were about 5-10 ft from road then cut hard right to slightly straight out giving you enough room on blindside
Super cool guy maybe nicer companies can use ur help and get custom maneuver video for every hard dock out there and then give it to drivers to make backup situation less tensed.👍👍👍👍👍🙏
Your first jackknife attempt where you ended up in front of the trailer, I think if you had turned left then straight to the edge of the street, it would have brought your tail into good alignment to finish the back. I used to drive a sleeper regionally but now I operate a yard truck, and boy and I spoiled now.
that was great, what a very intelligent fella thank the Lord for men like us who can actually create things and be beneficial sense everyone thinks that it's all about our wife's lol
Question why do most if not all drivers make there U turn to the right like you did in this demonstration. To me it seems like making it to the left allows you to look back at the trailer to know what it's doing if you're in a tight turn but when you do it to the right you loose sight of the trailer and see a lot less but every one seems to do it that way ??
Very observant. I think it's just feels more comfortable making it to the right because it keeps the driver on the outside, easier to make the turn as wide as possible. You don't really need to keep an eye on your tires, just got to make sure the trailer doesn't hit the back of the truck.
What is that software you use to copy the map and then drive the truck. I think that is usefull for learning backing, and especially in non-typical and difficult spots like this. Thanks for the demonstration.
Can I use this simulate before getting in the place to do the backing? What program is that and how I can use in the place I am going to like you using on this example. I am struggling with my backing and would help so much do the backing before getting on the place. Thanks
My game is called My Trucking Skills the game. Links are in the description on every video I have. It's on iOS and Android and PC if you go through the website
7:18 it looks to me that you might have had a chance at getting the trailer in a decent position with some very aggressive pull ups, but I could be wrong. I don't have anywhere near the amount of experience you do.
YES YES YES...sorry but your 2nd move is my move...i call it the horseshoe back up.i use it.city tractor may have had room to spin around in front of the dock as well.
@@MyTruckingSkills i wish you and youtube was around 25 years ago...Thank you for showing /teaching others your skills ...what really impresses me is your camera work! imagine a drone that just followed you autonomously checking your blind spots.....keep up the great work,stay safe.
I wish TH-cam and someone like me to was there too 19 years ago, man did I struggle!!! I have a passion for perfection in what to create. I don't create much, but I give it my all I do. That's for the comments
All Best Buy’s were crappy to back into I know I had 6 every week the truck line I drove for 21 years ago we handled every thing that came out of the DC in Carol Stream Illinois I had CedarRapids Iowa twice a week with Coralville had Rockford Illinois &Geneva Illinois twice a week and RockIsland Illinois & Davenport Iowa once a week they all suck
Wow, I feel like I should say yes, but I can't think of any situation that I could not get myself out of. There were many times where I just couldn't back into the space and gave up are asked a driver to disconnect from his trailer or something.
When I first saw the bay I immediately thought it would be best to drive in the yard and jack-knife it into position like you did on the second method. My second choice was the way you did it first time. Having said that I'm in England so if it was over here the jack-knife would be all on the blind side and might not be such a good idea.
And it would've been much easier for you too, the turning is tighter you your trucks and you have a shorter wheel base. No bonnet either. But I'm England there are so much more tighter area's to back into, we have it easy over here with all the real estate we have to back up
@@MyTruckingSkills Of course! You are right! I was forgetting about the bonnet and the position of your front axles, I was viewing the problem from a British POV. I enjoy your channel BTW👍
This guy is over looking from the air. Be in the cab. Also that bump in the first right turn this guy drove over it 🤷♂️ not hating, but simulator isn’t realistic 😉
Your videos make me wanna buy a drone and launch it every time I have to back into a crappy dock😁 Great job explaining, but in the real world you can’t see yourself from above, making your wisdom a little less useful, which is sad…
Dude, most docks in the world are easy if you have the mind for it and experience. but for most people how search out to get better at backing it is not. That's why they come to my channel is to improve themselves to be just as good as you who think this is easy.
The third best set up is to destroy the Best buy warehouse and rebuild it according to 53 feet tractor and trailers :)
subtle but effective! :D
Drivers should have charged an extra fee for tight space docks.
Try the real old school way.
Pull past the drive.. throw on the 4ways.. and blindside it into the 130° turn against nonstop traffic.
They'll stop. 😂
That's how we had to do it when I learned doing LTL in Chicago and the suburbs 30 years ago.
That's what I would have done
Wow. I knew you would make this look easy. My setup was a bit off, I pulled into the road but didn’t go left enough,and it was a struggle to get in. This will make the next time a wee bit easier. Thanks a million.
Are you out of Ohio or Illinois ?
Ohio
Great job these docks suck. It took me 3 hours to get into the Joann down there.
That second way is madman style, well done!!
The second method he showed is how I alley dock with a lot of the small Kroger stores I go to with no open street in the front 😂😂😂 so I had to come in from the building side, make a U-turn and line up hugging the ramp to my left in a straight line to give yourself plenty of room in the front for the truck to chase the trailer as you jackknife into the dock. It gets super easy the more you do it, takes about 5 minutes...Like a glove!
Both of you are smarter than me. In situations like these I inch my way into traffic until I totally block both sides then slowly start backing up.
Lmaoo
The ol' block-and-tackle
Hey man just wanted to say thank you for these videos. Im a new driver. Trained 6 otr weeks and I'm not confident in my parking until seeing these videos. Thanks
6 weeks... shit i drove for a month for someone.. just put a down payment on a used cascadia... wish me luck
@@dell7054 Dry van?.1 month then solo on truck?
@@The_ProfessionalKid Yes sir.
@@dell7054 wow man. I had trouble finding a good starter company so had to settle. Company wanted me with trainer 3 months.. I said hell no. Left after 6 weeks
@@The_ProfessionalKid Yeah they wanted to pay me .40 cent a mile.. Lol.. I got my experience. My trainer was ok . Was driving from day 2 no issues.. Drove about 600 to 650 miles A day with him. while he slept lol.. Little bad with backing but will get better over time..
Dont know how people work company drivers making pennies for years and then quite or be owner opss..
I couldn't drive for anyone for piss poor pay..
Gona do my own thing.. and should be ready by dec..
This is so handy, seeing real life jobs from birds eye, great input thanks 🤙
This was fun to watch.
Riding with Dave you’re like my hero lol if only I had my cdl I really want it, but I can’t afford the class.
There are lots of companies who help you get your CDL like Swift, CR England, Werner and many more. And then you work for them. The great thing about them is they teach you with the equipment that you will use in the real world. Lots of cdl schools only use 28 for trailers.
Good luck on turning around in the back, usually there will be dumpsters and other vehicles blocking. At react you could back up and do option 2
Really loving these real place setups 👍
Got any in mind you with like to see??
@@MyTruckingSkills I do from years ago, it was pretty interesting. But I have no clue where it was 🙁
Soon as I saw that dock I thought “reverse 180”. Glad you were able to show it.
Its docks like that, that makes me love a cabover truck
It’s a good thing ima flatbeder I gradually learn how to back I’m not forced into these situations
Awesome skills. Thanks for sharing.
Mad respect to these truck drivers It's not easy as it looks wow 🙌
I'm on this account and I had this store once during peak season. Traffic was crazy and it took forever. On top of that, add snow, a best buy van in the way of your setup, and rush hour. It's ridiculous. Plus I was a rookie at the time. I can knock it out now, but it's still a pain in the a$$.
Dedicated Best Buy driver. I’m sure eventually I will visit this dock 😃
It was a Werner driver who suggested it to me, do if you work for them there is a good chance. Fingers crossedv that there is no trailer in the other dock. If you come across any crazy docks let me know.
That’s why I sent this to Trucker G. Hope it helps.
The easiest way would be backing off the street. If your gonna have to wait mines well just back in. Old head told me anything sketchy it easier to back in then pull in. Not be able to turn around it will kind of eliminate the unknown.
It looks so much easier with an eagle eye view, I’ve tough of taking my drone an just have it hover above and have it and display on my iPad while backing into some tight ass spots
What kinda drone do you have?
@@MyTruckingSkills a little dji spark , but it has gps so you can fly it up an it will stay in place just hovering above you ,and you can stream the feed to your phone or tablet and have a perfect eagle eye view
If you've seen any of my earlier videos you can see me use that method all the time to record my topdown view of my backing tutorials
Nice video! It’s always helping me! Thank you!
Well done, in my opinion I honestly believe you could have gotten the 2nd method on the 1st attempt had you gotten close to the curb at 6:47 and continued to hug it until you were about 5-10 ft from road then cut hard right to slightly straight out giving you enough room on blindside
Probably
Don't do that 2nd one you gonna have swift out here hitting everything
Triple decker stress sandwich, I had to remind myself to breathe.
wow very nice. thanks a lot!
That last one was bloody hard
👀
Good job. If you’re in NYC, good luck... pedestrians may not stop for you. Be alert and hope someone will assist in this, which is likely to occur.
Super cool guy maybe nicer companies can use ur help and get custom maneuver video for every hard dock out there and then give it to drivers to make backup situation less tensed.👍👍👍👍👍🙏
Your first jackknife attempt where you ended up in front of the trailer, I think if you had turned left then straight to the edge of the street, it would have brought your tail into good alignment to finish the back. I used to drive a sleeper regionally but now I operate a yard truck, and boy and I spoiled now.
Ya, you're problems right.
I believe that slow and long jackknife stress he’d be putting in the tires would make them pop in no time
Nope, backed up over 50K and that she's not happen. I'm sure it has, but generally speaking, it doesn't.
yeah just turn hard right toward the dock then sharp left .you will be able to straight it up and see the dock == then one shot to it.
Great information keep it up
Nice video
that was great, what a very intelligent fella thank the Lord for men like us who can actually create things and be beneficial sense everyone thinks that it's all about our wife's lol
Fuck me, I wanna see someone do that last maneuver real world. I'd give a high five and a hundred bucks.
Question why do most if not all drivers make there U turn to the right like you did in this demonstration. To me it seems like making it to the left allows you to look back at the trailer to know what it's doing if you're in a tight turn but when you do it to the right you loose sight of the trailer and see a lot less but every one seems to do it that way ??
Very observant. I think it's just feels more comfortable making it to the right because it keeps the driver on the outside, easier to make the turn as wide as possible. You don't really need to keep an eye on your tires, just got to make sure the trailer doesn't hit the back of the truck.
COME ON SON, you know damn well you scratched the dodooo out of that parked trailer when u pulled out 🤣🤣
Nope, the game records any impacts 😁😁 didn't have any.
Where is the game at so I can practice?
On my computer for now
Can u tell us when the game comes out?
What is that software you use to copy the map and then drive the truck. I think that is usefull for learning backing, and especially in non-typical and difficult spots like this. Thanks for the demonstration.
Its a sim that I had someone develop for me. It should be ready before Christmas on mobile devices. Thanks for the comment.
Can I use this simulate before getting in the place to do the backing?
What program is that and how I can use in the place I am going to like you using on this example. I am struggling with my backing and would help so much do the backing before getting on the place.
Thanks
My game is called My Trucking Skills the game. Links are in the description on every video I have. It's on iOS and Android and PC if you go through the website
7:18 it looks to me that you might have had a chance at getting the trailer in a decent position with some very aggressive pull ups, but I could be wrong. I don't have anywhere near the amount of experience you do.
That was very cool
YES YES YES...sorry but your 2nd move is my move...i call it the horseshoe back up.i use it.city tractor may have had room to spin around in front of the dock as well.
I like that, "The Horse Shoe Back" I'm steeling that lol
@@MyTruckingSkills i wish you and youtube was around 25 years ago...Thank you for showing /teaching others your skills ...what really impresses me is your camera work! imagine a drone that just followed you autonomously checking your blind spots.....keep up the great work,stay safe.
I wish TH-cam and someone like me to was there too 19 years ago, man did I struggle!!! I have a passion for perfection in what to create. I don't create much, but I give it my all I do. That's for the comments
fantastic
@My Trucking Skills what program do you use for you Demonstration?
I made it myself, with some help...well, a lot of help, but I can't up with it lol . It will be coming out real soon... No exact date yet.
Use the street, ppl will be okay if they have to wait a few seconds(or several seconds)
Easy to say but in real life believe sometime it's very tough to make it
I hate to be the one to tell you but you forgot to open your doors. lol
It was a rollup door????
He must be a new driver.
For some reason, I thought this was bestbuy video
I don't know what you talking about . I did back in to that spot from the street one shot.
We have a super trucker here!!!🏆🏆❤️❤️⭐⭐🥳🥳🥳
All Best Buy’s were crappy to back into I know I had 6 every week the truck line I drove for 21 years ago we handled every thing that came out of the DC in Carol Stream Illinois I had CedarRapids Iowa twice a week with Coralville had Rockford Illinois &Geneva Illinois twice a week and RockIsland Illinois & Davenport Iowa once a week they all suck
I'm a rookie so your lessons helps. BTW you sound like you're from 🇯🇲
Jamaica???🤣🤣 No, I'm from Ireland 🇨🇮
@@MyTruckingSkills I knew you were Irish because I've been in love with Dervla Kirwan ever since they first broadcast Ballykissangel on PBS. 🤣
Gamble good
I had this store once and i hated it 💯💯💯🤣
I would love to talk to you sometime thx for ur content im a huge fan
Email me first at MyTruckingSkills@gmail.com
Have you ever gotten yourself into a bad position you can't get out of?
Wow, I feel like I should say yes, but I can't think of any situation that I could not get myself out of. There were many times where I just couldn't back into the space and gave up are asked a driver to disconnect from his trailer or something.
I want to master backing up like that in a tractor trailer recently got my cdl like two months ago watching this videos help me a lot thanks
When I first saw the bay I immediately thought it would be best to drive in the yard and jack-knife it into position like you did on the second method. My second choice was the way you did it first time. Having said that I'm in England so if it was over here the jack-knife would be all on the blind side and might not be such a good idea.
And it would've been much easier for you too, the turning is tighter you your trucks and you have a shorter wheel base. No bonnet either. But I'm England there are so much more tighter area's to back into, we have it easy over here with all the real estate we have to back up
@@MyTruckingSkills Of course! You are right! I was forgetting about the bonnet and the position of your front axles, I was viewing the problem from a British POV.
I enjoy your channel BTW👍
The second method is doable you were no jack knifing hard enough.
And I showed that in my 3rd attempt
Please new drivers do not try the second way, always use the easy way
agreed
Challenge
I sent you an e- mail long time ago and still waiting your response 😢
What was it about? Some emails jump into my Spam folder.
@@MyTruckingSkills drive.google.com/file/d/1sX2TePQBFNypRzKexd9vP7LQsbtViAQ3/view?usp=drivesdk
That’s like 3 times the space I have to work with in most docks I see everyday.
You must be one of those super truckers!!! Congratulations 👏🎉👏🎊
This guy is over looking from the air. Be in the cab. Also that bump in the first right turn this guy drove over it 🤷♂️ not hating, but simulator isn’t realistic 😉
Thanks for the comment bro
Why in the hell would they put a curb right by the docks like that. Dumb
Your videos make me wanna buy a drone and launch it every time I have to back into a crappy dock😁 Great job explaining, but in the real world you can’t see yourself from above, making your wisdom a little less useful, which is sad…
Come on guys smh this is easy work smh
Dude, most docks in the world are easy if you have the mind for it and experience. but for most people how search out to get better at backing it is not. That's why they come to my channel is to improve themselves to be just as good as you who think this is easy.