Larry Jaques wrote:
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.

It isn't done because the 2nd and/or 3rd trailers have movable
steering yokes. It's like trying to push rope.

UPS transfer drivers back up double pups all the time. Triples are a
real chore, you have to really practice to get the third trailer hooked
up on one try.



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.

It does take awhile to learn your mirror depth perception and reverse
actions.

The depth perception is usually the hard part. Once you get that down
the rest is easy.


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Steve W.