A Wild Challenge Appears!

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Fatsquatch 's Comment
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I've had some difficult backs in my career. Lots of tight holes in skeevy, dinky places. Even the odd slight blindside here and there.

But this one took the cake.

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That big blue dot is me, in door 4. There were dropped trailers in 1 and 3, and 2 was open. I was hoping for 2, since as you can see it would've been much less hairy. Those two yellow dots are 4 foot high yellow poles that are very inconveniently placed. The red swoopy arrow is the direction of travel to get set up for this nightmare.

So how did I do it? Very carefully. And about 4 inches at a time. I lost count of the number of times I pulled the brake to GOAL. All I can say is Thank God for power mirrors. I was able to swing that righthand mirror out far enough to see what was doing on that side. All the GOALs were to see where my tail was in relation to that slab of concrete on my left.

All told, I'd say it probably took me about 20 minutes to get twizzled into the door. But the win was I did it, and I didn't hit anything. dancing-banana.gif

But oh, how I never want to be sent there again.

DOT:

Department Of Transportation

A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.

State and Federal DOT Officers are responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement. "The truck police" you could call them.

HOS:

Hours Of Service

HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
Rob S.'s Comment
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Well done. Twizzle is a good description for that.

Chris K.'s Comment
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How did you get that pic? Nice job by the way!!

Fatsquatch 's Comment
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How did you get that pic? Nice job by the way!!

Screenshot from Google maps, and then some quick and dirty edits from my image gallery for the accents.

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