Backing Practice™ 21 Berry Plastics

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Enter from Ontario Center Rd (left side). How would you get safely backed into the dock (yellow word on the dock area)?

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• The address of the place
• Your description of the backing problem
• Possibly a screen shot of the Google Map satellite view
• Your TT screen handle

I'd back in FROM Ontario Center Road - and do a sight side 90* alley dock. Plenty of room to swing around there.

OR - I'd come in from the Main Street side (not shown) - there's a road that goes all the way around the back of the complex - and do a sight side dock.

OR - if I couldn't back in from Ontario - I'd come in - do a "serpentine setup", and blindside it in.

Backing in would be my first choice.

Rick

I'd come in and do a tandem Pusey to get set up for a driver side back. It looks like it has enough room to do so. Basically just get into the loading area and turn around. Then set up to ally dock if that's all the room I have. Just want to make sure it's not blind side.

One time I encountered a similar situation in training. I tried to blindside then I basically used the blindside maneuver to turn the truck around to do a driver side back.

Sure looks to me like there's room to spin around and sight side it in. Look at the curvy dirt marks from trucks that hug the woods and turn around clockwise. Then go far enough out to the street to set up for a big arcing driver's side back.

Sad thing is I had forced myself to do blind side docks to get better at them for months. Now they don't bother me. I would just do the blindside, put it in the dock, then take a nap.

If there's room to do this, I would do a u-turn in front of the docks to set myself up for a sight side back. Might have to work it a little to get the tandems in the right place after the u-turn but it should work great.

If there's not room for a u-turn, I'd just blindside it in.

Hmm...I agree with everyone who said u turn. I think maybe it would work better to stay left coming in and make your u turn to the right.

Is the part with the word "dock" a roof that extends out from the docks? Looks like it might be making the trailers look shorter than they really are.

Hmm...I agree with everyone who said u turn. I think maybe it would work better to stay left coming in and make your u turn to the right.

Is the part with the word "dock" a roof that extends out from the docks? Looks like it might be making the trailers look shorter than they really are.

The roof comes out a bit, but not very much. It was a tight one for sure. What you see is basically what i had to work with.

I'm with others, (scale hard to tell on phone) Stay left, short tandem , right hand Uturn aiming to pass as close as possible to docked trailers. If not enough room, blindside. They're really not that big a deal if you have light.

It's not uncommon to be "forced" to do a blind side back. Not here. There's room to make that circle. Come in from the left (Ontario Center Rd.), Head your tractor right in the open area to make a right hand/counterclockwise circle which will set you up for your favorite, a sight/left side back.