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RE: backing up trailer
Nephi, a couple comments from a former trucker:
The toy truck is a very good idea. An RC toy truck with steering would be even better.
Next learn to use the mirrors. Make sure the inside measurement from mirror to mirror is wider than the trailer. You need to be able to see the rear corners of the trailer from the driver's seat. Otherwise you are backing blind.
Learn to back up straight first. Start out straight, put it in reverse, and as the trailer drifts to one side, turn the wheel in the direction the trailer is going. Small adjustments will do it, just react as the trailer moves.
Lastly, 90% of backing is how well you line up beforehand. I won't back to the right, (blindside) and try to line up the rig as straight as possible BEFORE you back up. Most folks don't leave themselves room to manuever.
You need to get out and PRACTICE. We got into a pickle a coupe of years ago, bridge was impassable and we had to back out for nearly half a mile before I could turn around. Took my time and we got out, with one double cut to get around a blindside corner.
When I was a trucker, I had a delivery to a newspaper in southern Ohio that involves be backing up for 100yds thru a 12' alley with an 8' wide truck. Again, took my time and got out.
The first time you make a left side corner into a site and get it with one cut and no reversing will be a day you will remember.
Like I said, begin with TV, TT, and front wheels straight and back straight. It'll come to you. Also, "back when" we had a sayong - If you can't cant drive it backwards, you have no business driving it forward..
ETA: I tow a very similar trailer with a FS pickup, and yes, the longer the trailer, the easier it is to back it...
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03/04/12 06:32pm |
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RE: Virginia to add Tolls on I-95
I-81 is already crowded, this is only gonna add to it. I-81 is not in good shape either, is VA gonna make that a toll road? Looks like I'll be headed south on US 220..
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09/29/11 05:59pm |
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RE: Suggestion for my route from PA to VT
I concur with the above, altho when we went to NH we took I-87 to US4. I drive a diesel truck and had no problem whatsoever finding rest areas and fuel stops. We have a 22' Jayco TT and had plenty of room.
This is another trip we'd like to repeat, New England is a beautiful place.
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09/29/11 05:33pm |
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RE: ideas for stops traveling I-95 from Florida to Massachusetts
For my two cents, I detest I-95 and try to stay off of it. When we go to Maine from FL, we learned to take US 301N to I-26W near Colombia SC, to I-77N to I81N to points north. We don't like I-80 either so we might go up to Lake George for awhile then east on state roads or I-84. Anything except I-95 and the NJ Thruway. Not much longer and so much better roads and mostly nice scenery through the Shenendoah Valley. Cuts out Jax, DC, all those crowded towns in the NE and conjested roads and toll roads.
I strongly second this. I-95 is crowded, lots of tolls in MD, runs thru most of the big cities and God help you if you get stuck between DC ad Baltimore during rush hour. I-26 to I-81 then run the "Ho Chi Minh Trail" (US209) north of I-80 to I-84. MUCH more scenic and less traffic.
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08/21/11 03:23am |
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RE: Roll Call/What's Your Trailer & Tow Vehicle
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v503/PA_Ops/MemproaDay11006.jpg
01 Dodge Ram, 4:10s, P pumped 24 valve
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1998 Jayco 220
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Hooked up and ready to go, 2007.
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08/20/11 11:27am |
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