Help with Backing Up

toedtoes wrote:

Ron3rd wrote:
All good advice above but I will give you a tip for the spotter that helps us;

We got into this in 2004 and I asked questions on this very forum about backing up a travel trailer.

My wife is a very good spotter but she's been doing it for hundreds of trips. We communicate by cell phone (when we can) and instead of saying, "go Right" or "go Left", she will say "PASSENGER" and "DRIVER" SIDE.

In other words, she does not say, "turn to the right". She will say, "start turning to the PASSENGER SIDE".

The Driver Side/Passenger Side lingo that was recommended here was one of the best tips I ever got.

That is always good. Then you don't fall into the "your left or my left" dilemma.

I also want to know from the start if you are telling me to turn the steering wheel OR the trailer - I've had people do both without identifying which they mean and it gets very annoying.

That's why we use "cut" and "follow/straighten out" to describe the way the TV influences the trailer instead of directions or even sides. Of course this assumes there's already a turn in progress. If you're going straight back and need to start a "cut" you need to say which way. ;)