Backing Practice™ 14

This backing situation is from Paul W. The location is ConAgra in Trenton, MO. It's easy to find with just that much information.

To get to the dock (there's a truck there now) you enter through the guard gate at the lower left corner. Follow the green arrows, but by the time you get to the dock (upper left corner, red arrow), you need to turn around. Any ideas?

Don't worry about the other trucks at the lower right, there's no entrance from that direction.

Paul will post his solution in a day or so.

Drop in in the street and let the yard dog do it?

I'm not sure I understand: enter from a guard shack on the lower left... and follow the green arrows that come from the lower right? What am I missing?

I'm not sure I understand: enter from a guard shack on the lower left... and follow the green arrows that come from the lower right? What am I missing?

Sorry, minor error. This image is actually on its side. The green arrows are pointing north and the dock is on the east side. I just took the screenshot this way so I could capture as much as possible on my rectangular phone screen.

I sent Errol multiple screen shots and they weren't all on their side, hence the mixup.

Only entrance is where the green arrows start.

I'm not sure I understand: enter from a guard shack on the lower left... and follow the green arrows that come from the lower right? What am I missing?

Nine times out of ten, the first person you will meet is the guard at a guard shack. Guards don't just wave you through, they may take your bills, assign you to a dock, etc.

The green arrows are in the picture, showing you the traffic flow. In these photos, I prefer using "left"/"right", "top"/"bottom" instead of compass directions, because you just have this photo.

In this photo, the guard is out of the picture, but that's where you'd start.

Make the right at the green arrow and sight side back it back onto the road you just came down head back towards the gate and repeat to the dock.

Sorry, minor error. This image is actually on its side. The green arrows are pointing north and the dock is on the east side. I just took the screenshot this way so I could capture as much as possible on my rectangular phone screen.

Thanks for clarifying, just wanted to make sure it wasn't me being confused. o_0

Nine times out of ten, the first person you will meet is the guard at a guard shack. Guards don't just wave you through, they may take your bills, assign you to a dock, etc.

Cheers for that bit of info Errol: that answers a question i'd been meaning to ask.. someone.. at some point.. about the general process of arriving at a receiver/consignee.

Alright, gonna give you veterans a fire to put out here! :P To my newbie eyes it looks like there's a decent amount of space to play with at the fork that splits to the dock, and not many obstacles. To that effect I probably would have gone past the fork and blindsided onto the dock road, then straight backed the rest of the way, to make it simple, if not necessarily easy.

Make the right at the green arrow and sight side back it back onto the road you just came down head back towards the gate and repeat to the dock.

Looking at it again, this ^ makes a lot more sense Cwc, especially if it's actually tighter on the ground than it looks from the air and a blindside would be unsafe. More turns but safer.

I'm eager to hear how it was done!

I always tend to shy away from blindside backing. Not that it doesn't happen from time to time but I will avoid it if it's not totally necessary. Unless I have a truck with a window in the bunk (like the Volvo 780 I had.... miss that thing) In which you can open the curtain and cheat.

If I understand the course correctly, I'd nose toward the dock first, then back to my sight side to get pointed back toward the guard shack. Pull forward a bit then another sight side back into the dock. I'd rather do multiple sight sides than any blind side.