On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:43:42 -0600, Ignoramus31868
wrote:

On 2012-02-03, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 07:32:37 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:


"Winston" wrote in message
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Larry Jaques wrote:
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Add trailers and things get giggly pretty quickly.

Backing downhill around a corner in the rain after dark with a trailer
is when it gets truly interesting.

Not for me, man!

Backing a trailer straight across an open parking lot is a challenge for me.

It's hard to reverse your thinking and drive counterintuitively, isn't
it? "To move the trailer to the right, turn the steering wheel to the
left." Then I look at double and triple trailers and get all goosey.


I do not think that you can back up with doubles or triples.

I do back up fine with a trailer when I can turn my head around and
look back. But I cannot do it with mirrors. I think, that it would
take a day of practice to get it.

i

You'd get it. Every RC pilot has to overcome the same thing, apparent
reversal of inputs when the plane's coming at you instead of going
away. Simulators are invaluable (far cheaper to hit reset instead of
the walk of shame with the garbage bag) for getting over that
particular hump. Are there any for semi's?

Pete Keillor