Is this one of you guys?

[bpounds]

I am impressed!

Backing up doubles

[bshgto1]

Here`s one, he makes it look easy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfVptt4TxiY

[ford_truck_guy]

romore wrote:
I have seen a lot of commercial truckers that couldn't do that. And in the dark no less. This boy is good!!

I have seen a lot of commercial drivers now a days that cannot back up AT ALL... It's a shame....


We have at least 1 a day at our shop that has a terrible time backing in.. Its the "New Generation" of drivers... put em in a truck and point them straight !


If your gonna drive it... learn to back it...

*** ps - I am extremely jealous... not on my best night would I want to attempt that..... stone pillars, curb, fence, house, dark... Give me a wide approach, daylight and my wife far away so there would be no yelling " YOUR GONNA HIT SOMETHING" . .:B

[mt1729]

I have 30 years experience driving truck (road construction mostly) lots of backing up involved. Even had a pup on behind my belly dump at times. I thought I was pretty good. Never at my best, even as a young man, could I have even come close to doing what I just saw in that video and that was after dark. Way over, above & out of my league. Very jealous I never had that kind of ability. WOW!

[DSteiner51]

Not another one! Approx 8 years ago I was backing my rig up with a boat behind (not at nite) when I read on RV.net that it was impossible so I just kept doing it. Never had it videoed to prove it because I wasn't knowledgable enough to know it couldn't be done until I learned it here.

In my ignorance I thot it was easier then backing up a chopper and wagon with auto steer behind a tractor, especially when the chopper was swung off center to trail to the right of the tractor for chopping and on field surface, not blacktop. Never was great at this so I thot a fifth wheel and boat on hard surface was a piece of cake. Haven't done either now for 5 years so not sure I could still.

[srosa]

In my case there would be a disconnected fifth wheel and boat parked in the street for at least a few minutes. I don’t have enough decades left on this planet to gain those kind of skills.

[packnrat]

i have been pulling long trailers (even a set of short boxes) for a number of decades. rain, ice storms, white outs, fog. you name it in all weather conditions, even worked the yard goat for a couple years.

But my hat goes off to those who can back up a set.

[memtb]

I’m about like azrving.....about 20 or so feet.

[ependydad]

jake2250 wrote:
IMPRESSIVE! Takes patience! If your gonna pull it, you should be able to back it!

Not necessarily.. motorhomes towing 4-down can't back up.

[4x4ord]

Not bad for someone who doesn't do it everyday.

[laknox]

Saw a YT video a number of years ago showing a guy backing a set of =triples= into a warehouse. Aussie, IIRC. Manager said the driver was his "A Team". :B

Lyle

[Me_Again]

Not only that, he was barefoot also!!!! Maybe that is his secret? Chris

[Veebyes]

That is really impressive. In the dark no less. After 12 years & hundreds of campsite, rarely pull through, I like to think that we are pretty good. I say WE because I have a very good spotter with radio in hand.

Backing doubles simply boggles the mind. It is like watching a skipper docking a large single engined boat in a breeze. You need to know your stuff.

[bucky]

Wow, just WOW!

[Nv_Guy]

When I was leasing truck trailers I met one driver who could do that. He told me his dad was a dispatcher so as a youngster he got to learn and practice in the truck yard when dad worked on weekends.
I tried backing doubles with the yard tractor a few times...It was a cluster...