Help with Backing Up

Veebyes wrote:
JMO but it is not the spotters job to tell the driver how to drive the vehicle. It is the spotters job to tell the driver which way & how much she wants the back of the vehicle to go. Making the back follow her instructions is the drivers problem. A good spotter helps by being able to anticipate what needs to happen before it needs to happen, given that 5ers are a little slow to respond.

I agree.

If I am in the driver seat, it is MY responsibility to know what I am doing. If the trailer hits a kid on a bicycle, the driver can't say "well my spotter is the expert and so I just did what he/she told me to do" and walk away. The driver is responsible and as such should be knowledgeable in backing up and be paying attention to more going on than just the spotter's instructions.