Backing My Trailer. Is This Doable?
Here's what I have. Travel trailer is 35' and truck is 15'. The road is 20' wide (including the shoulders) with ditches on both sides. The property is fenced with a 20' wide gate and driveway. Is ...
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Twenty feet to "fit" in to, gives a lot of wiggle room.
My neighborhood street is 28 feet wide, driveway is 13 feet with a retaining wall on one side, a telephone pole/guidewire on the other side. My trailer is much smaller, BUT...
YOU CAN DO THIS...
SLOW down, then SLOW down, then SLOW down some more. Give yourself plenty of time to react.
As others have said, learn the swoop method... you can get half that trailer into that 20' space---without much "bend" in the combo. Giving you plenty of room to manuever the truck on the street.
My neighborhood street is 28 feet wide, driveway is 13 feet with a retaining wall on one side, a telephone pole/guidewire on the other side. My trailer is much smaller, BUT...
YOU CAN DO THIS...
SLOW down, then SLOW down, then SLOW down some more. Give yourself plenty of time to react.
As others have said, learn the swoop method... you can get half that trailer into that 20' space---without much "bend" in the combo. Giving you plenty of room to manuever the truck on the street.
