Backing up a Double Semi Tractor Trailer #1

Showing what they don't teach you in truck driving school!

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• American_Trucker
• 18_Wheeler
• California_Trucker
• pulling_2_trailers
• Backing_a_semi
• gothic

[435idiots]

Awesome, I used to drive doubles and I never had the time or the room to learn how to do this. Anybody that can do this I watch in amazement. Just got behind the wheel again in October (after 20 years) for a month pulling single 53' belt trailer. Hoping to be pulling rocky mountain double belly dumps soon.

[Wildironhorseman]

@435idiots Thanks for the comment! if it wasn't for my Grandpa teaching me how to drive 30 years ago, i probably wouldn't have been able to pull this off, i know it's not perfect but....i didn't break anything... cheers

[tibs851]

i hate to blow your bubbles buddy but, before i quit trucking to drive buses (which was my dream since a kid) i "retired" being undefeated at backing up a double and tripple (only so far) in the company. I could back into any bay I wanted in under ten mins. Everyone's quit now, so the place is literaly foreign to me. I miss driving tripples sometimes. :(

[Wildironhorseman]

@tibs851 Thanks for the comment..I don't get offened by all the negative comments, i never said i was the only one doing it.i was taught the technique by my Grand father, so they were doing it in the 40z and before..this was my first backing video and longest..i would love to see more of the negitve commenters put up or shut up, i haven't seen anyone and i don't allow hardly anyones comments thru that don't even post video's. I do appreciate all the positive comment's though.

[aterv206]

Great skill, but please could you tell me why some parts of America have these two short trailers instead of one long one?

[Wildironhorseman]

@aterv206 Thank you for the compliment! The reason is for diversity, there are a lot of tight areas that we deliver to....bark/rock yards dairies, biomass yards... so it gives us the diversity to get into tighter areas with one trailer that you couldn't get a single long trailer into. Also some times these yards order 2 different products so we can bring them an array of products with one trip, thus for optimizing the fuel off sets and full delivery cost's.

I hope this helps!

Take care.

[yamahonkawazuki]

@spamkingalpha got any videos?

[joek0617]

try backing a triple

[turbojunky1985]

@Wildironhorseman but... u said no one can

 do this

[bigroycl9000]

Horrible .

[westernturf]

Horrible you look like a fool

[westernturf]

douche bag lame ass you look like a fool!

[MrAlexanderreno]

@aterv206 well some times especially with companies like UPS and FedEx they use more than one as sometimes one trailer goes to one location the others get dropped off elsewhere. and also easier to get one short trailer in some places. also It is more economical as it can save trips. some places they pull 3 28', as well as 2 28' and a 45' and a 28' also some states allow 2 45'.

[spamkingalpha]

I could pretty much do this with my eyes closed when I was 13 ... growing up on a farm we have to learn how to do this perfectly and in a hurry, use the first axle to steer the second then straighten the first every so often to avoid a jack knife, works every time