Rusty at backing up TT

i merely track the curb side wheels while looking out the driver side passenger window. i have a sloped driveway and have to pivot around a detached garage at the top. On the street hook the trailers nose to the right, and start backing slow. Back to the left and watch the bumper almost hit the driveway, get the driver side wheels in line with the left side of the driveway, straighten the truck and then start the pivot around the garage. Backing into a site is a cake walk.

Thanks....I've known about the hand at the bottom of the wheel for years...
I guess I just have to practice a bit to get back in the swing of things...

(on a long trip in the early '90s, we'd been out for 3 weeks changing sites every 2nd. night and we pulled into a campground in Idaho....The campground operator showed us to our site on his quad and remarked after I'd slipped the trailer in in one fell swoop...."I guess you've done this a few times")

WHILE LOOKING IN THE MIRROR & REVERSING:
1) When backing up WITHOUT a trailer, put your hand on the top of the steering wheel. If you move your hand left (CCW) the back of your car will go left.
2) When backing up WITH a trailer, put your hand on the bottom of the steering wheel. If you move your hand left (CW) the back of your trailer will go left.

Go to WalMart or Dicks and pick-up 6-10 of the cheap 12" orange cones for marking a kids soccer field. Use them to lay out driveways, camping spaces, and other backing-up situations. If they give you a target to shoot for, and if you run one over, nothing lost.....

We use traffic cones the same way to teach new operators how to back-up fire apparatus.....

put your hand on the bottom ofthe wheel and push the way you want the trailer to go.

Mark and Linda wrote:
I turn around and face mine when backing into my drive, something I did at work in the old days.

?? Could you expand on turning around and facing?...

I know the trick about swerving into the intended parking slot as that gets you closer to a preferred position for backing...and I follow the rule of pulling forward to straighten out every time one starts to veer off course....

Hook it up and find an empty parking lot to practice your backing. I turn around and face mine when backing into my drive, something I did at work in the old days. I don't know how good you get, you will find one that you will have to think about. I did, my driveway on my last trip, most of the time, I hit it on the first try. The last time I was in a hurry, did not take my time. My hardest was backing up at a filling station last year because the people in front was taking their time.