Backing up to an inclined and narrow driveway
Hi All, Greetings from a soon-to-be first-time trailer owner. My wife and I finally decided to buy a Coachmen Clipper 16RBD trailer. We are excited. I'm watching youtube videos on how to backup ...
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fulltimedaniel wrote:
I have been backing trailers many of them tractor trailers since I was 14. The one thing I can tell you is this: get to a big parking lot where you can back in a STRAIGHT LINE for about 200 feet or more down a strait edge.
Practice backing straight until you can do it well. Backing straight and the small corrections you will have to make continuously will implant the motor skills in your brain and teach you. This will make backing into any space much easier.
And Please forget any one who tells you to put your hand at the bottom of the steering wheel. This is like a crutch and you just have to unlearn this bad habit to really back up. Start with your natural hand placement on the wheel and learn from there.
Unless you have WALLS on both sides of your driveway or steep and sudden dropoffs then your driveway should be just fine and you too.
I would also limit anyone helping you to using HAND SIGNALS only. The CLOSED FIST held up is the universal sign for STOP. You only need one person helping you. Don't let a crowd gather and start giving directions, this is disastrous.
Good Luck
GREAT post.
