Help with Backing Up

toedtoes wrote:
If someone believes that he is so knowledgeable that he can get the job done using a monkey - then have at it. Just don't expect other people to choose to "be your monkey".

I look at it from a different angle. Ask someone to be your monkey, to test whether you really know what you're doing.

It's a no-lose proposition for the monkey: either the expert really is an expert and the most efficient way to get the RV backed in is to follow his directions to the letter--yay! Problem solved! Or the expert makes a mess of it and the problem is identified and can be worked on, and it's obviously not the monkey's fault.

Surely we've all had the experience or seen where two people were "helping" guide an RV in--usually bystanders. That is never helpful, yet I think that is what is actually going on when you have a person driving and a person outside directing: two people making decisions on what the trajectory of the RV should be, with a resulting mish-mash of trajectories because sometimes the driver does what he thinks he should and sometimes he's following the spotter's directions.

One person needs to be making the decisions--preferably the one with more expertise.