Backing Practice™ 13
Topic 15058 | Page 1
I'm a rookie solo driver, so I'm qualified to answer, right?
Stay as far right (from the driver's perspective) as possible and do a U-turn, pull forward to straighten as much as possible, and back into door 6. If you picked door 5, it would be difficult for the next driver to back around your tractor sticking out of the spot without hitting or running over stuff on the right.
Same for the same reason.
If you zoom in on the photo, you'll see that 5, 6, and 7 don't have a pure strategy back situation. BTW , past 7 is a ramp into the warehouse, do no trailers there.
My comments on how to do this tomorrow.
What's the address?
What's the address?
There's no real address, the plant/ mill is larger than the town. And the location is impossible to describe when you look at the Satellite version pof th\e map.
GP Naheola Pulp & Paper Mill, 7530 AL-114, Pennington, AL 36916
This link puts the map pin on the dock in question: Google Maps
Gotcha. I'd probably still do the same thing. You have to blindside a tad but it's not bad IMO. If you don't want to do that, you can just do a U-turn the other direction, and it becomes a 90-or-less degree sightside back. Am I missing anything important?
I think i want 5 instead of 6; when the driver behind me backs in, this would put me on his sight side (hopefully), but I still want a counter clockwise turn.
I imagine that I'd need to serpentine (to the left) out of my turn to set the trailer up for spot #5.
I'm a rookie solo driver, so I'm qualified to answer, right?
Stay as far right (from the driver's perspective) as possible and do a U-turn, pull forward to straighten as much as possible, and back into door 6. If you picked door 5, it would be difficult for the next driver to back around your tractor sticking out of the spot without hitting or running over stuff on the right.
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You enter from the top, and go to the assigned door. You basically choose which way you want to turn.
I was assigned either 5 or 6. (Both were empty.) How would you handle it?
Extra credit: You are assigned 5 or 6 (both are empty) and there's a driver behind you. You know he'll have to take the one you don't. So which do you choose? Why?
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