Heavy Metal Doctor wrote:
dieseltruckdriver wrote:
Your wife actually can be a big help. Get some of those cheap FRS radios and give her one. Then her job is to tell you to stop before you hit something. That is a lot of help.
The rest is just practice. Check out that swoop too. Almost all truck drivers do it.
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In spite of DW wanting to be involved and helpful, she understands that the biggest help for me if just to let me deal with it and just point out stuff that I might be getting too close to -- we find that's best for our camping experience / my sanity.
I was a truck driver for 17 years, and she admittedly knows nothing about backing up trailers. Her stopping me before I hit something is her job, and I do think it is an important one.