Truck Backing Episode 2 : The Biggest Lie ever told to Class A CDL students.
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- The trailer can only move in the direction it is currently pointing. The first step to controlling your trailer is making sure that you see it correctly. Truck driving students who believe in the 'Opposite Myth' struggle the most at reversing. Stop trying to move the rear of the trailer with an opposite turn of the steering wheel. I hope the video evidence will convince you.
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Wow, when you setup that twister board, explained the pivot point and how I’m basically pointing an arrow my brain just sorta clicked.
Thank you.
Awesome Glad to hear that! You're welcome!
Me too !!! 👍🏼
I'm not a truck driver but have gotten into American Truck Simulator as a hobby lately. Watching these videos and playing this game has given me much more respect for the skills and mental power needed to do this in a safe way that makes customers happy. Mad respect!
Hahaha you're awesome. I love that game
yeah, good truckers have high responsibility level as responsibility is ability to handle energy and mass
The simulator is much much harder than in real life. If you’re confident and don’t give af you can drive a truck. Just don’t hit anything cause you can do some massive damage at 3mph
Thanks you make more sense with your explaining than all Others I have watched . Junior Hernandez with prime is way to cocky thinks he can and doesn’t have training skills. Your video needs to be the one everyone uses. Thanks and God bless you for making these videos. Thanks again
Thank You David! Glad you found it helpful. Getting another vid out soon.
@@AdvancedTruckBacking yes, these videos are very well explained and very, very, helpful... thanks for making them!
I agree that guy junior gets on my nerves he thinks he's a know it all and is way too cocky!
I always thought I was crazy because at a certain point, your left is not your left anymore. I am SO glad you have acknowledged this! I always get stuck at that same point!
I believe it causes a lot of needless confusion. Good luck Karen!
Bro is scientific. The best video I’ve ever seen in backing. You’re doing the lords work! Blessings to you
I don't intend to become a big rig driver, but these videos are really helpful with backing my travel trailer. It's amazing where campground managers will put a space. Thank you!
Glad to help!
I'm in CDL refresher class. Your tutorials are priceless. Thank you for doing what you do
Awesome! Thank you!
Reprogramming and I teaching my old bad habits this time around getting my CDL back after 15 years, this series of videos is golden going to use this in my driving school classes which I’m currently in. ThAnks a ton driver!
Thank You! and glad you find them helpful. Good Luck!
@@AdvancedTruckBacking yeah they are, sitting here waiting to get a mentor and head out with Swift since they paid for my class. Good to have that CDL back where it belongs, in my wallet. All of these will help even after getting my license back, keep doing what your doing man.
I have had fifth wheels and gooseneck trailers for a long time and always seemed to just "Get By" with my backing skills. I'm also a victim of the so-called opposite think. Thanks for the great explanations in your videos. After almost 29 years in law enforcement, I am going for my CDL to for a second career and possibly my own business eventually. One thing I can completely relate this to is the firearms training in the police academy. The instructors always told us that teaching someone who had never had a gun in their hand was much easier to teach than someone who learned the wrong way and developed bad habits.
Thanks Allen! You're welcome! And, Yes! I'm amazed at the way some cling to the bad habits. Well, thanks for your service to the community, and good luck on your new venture.
I just started my cdl course last week , And I'm struggling to make sense of how it all works ... Trying desperately to unlock my brain because my instructor is a horrible teacher so I spend all my off time trying to learn by video ... Waiting for that epiphany moment ...
I started a month ago driving a big rig for the first time. I'm hauling garbage in walking floor trailers at a landfill. Although I never even sat in a truck until I started this job, my driver training consisted of being told to 'get in that truck and drive it.' That's it. I had to look up youtube videos just to get driving and shifting.
I have gotten shifting strategies down pretty well, my backing skills are severely lacking. the problem is that at the landfill they consistently require that I back into and dump in different areas. Often there are tracks or even another truck I can line up next to and back in, but even then I have to continually pull forward and get lined up again. This video offers me hope because up until now I have been using the opposite method, trying to steer the back of the trailer to keep the tandems in the tracks or simply trying to end up parallell with the truck I need to dump next to.
I can get quite frustrated because I end up jack-knifing the trailer repeatedly and having to start all over again, but realizing that I'm just moving back and forth along the same track without really getting anywhere. Fortunately, most of the other drivers and the dozer drivers are pretty patient and joust me a little but don't get frustrated and lose it but I worry that I will continue struggling to adjust to lining up and backing in a straight line.
Recently I have had to start doing this in the dark in a truck that isn't equipped with trailer lights or any form of reverse lights in general, the trucks out here tend to be the ones with everything wrong with them and are no longer considered road-worthy and I end up relying only on the dozer's spotlights to try and get it where it needs to be. So I've been worrying myself sick over feeling like I'm not picking up on things fast enough to deal with the upcoming winter months where I will be doing this for hours early in the morning when things are the busiest.
I recommend Ep1 - Ep3. Opposite thinking will get you no where. You'll get it.
I work at MBI bro we do the same exact stuff, Its difficult but im leaving this place and doing P&D with R and L or Estes not sure yet
Your videos are an eye opener and makes sense. The school that I’m going to tells us how far to turn by seconds and then turn back a few seconds. I wanted to know what to do when I don’t have someone there telling me how far to turn. I didn’t understand the concept until I watched your videos. Thank you so very much. I feel that once I apply your method I will be successful every time I back a trailer.
Thanks Carmen! Glad you found it helpful. Let me know how schooling goes. Good Luck to you!
I need training send me your contact information
Very informative! The company I drive for gave me 2.5 weeks of training as a new driver, with 1 week being CDL training/testing. We worked with nothing but pups/ sets. I've been driving for 7 months now, and have the 53s down ok, but your content has provided a great foundation for me to build further on. Thank you, sir!
That is awesome! Thanks for the feedback. Good luck on your journey!
Your camera work and editing are top notch. Nice to see the blue and orange stripes. My first job out of school was line haul for Reddaway in Denver CO. Then I moved to P and D.
I try and hit marks with my trailer tires moving forward and while backing. Thanks for the time and effort you put in to these videos. I'd like to see you with 1 M subscribers.
Thanks J.S.! Appreciate the kind words.
I thoroughly appreciate your style of training. Explaining each of your steps when backing and most importantly the setup for each of your backs is crucial; I absolutely agree with you on that!
I too am a student to the CDL world and find your “calm” style of training invaluable. I also appreciate how you show in your videos all of the details of setup, tractor and trailer positions, and the factors of the offset law and speed. I went thru CDL training with the company I work for (FE) and my instructor was very knowledgeable about the fundamentals but, not very good at helping me stay calm and relaxed while driving on road. I wish you had been my instructor. Please keep the videos coming.
Thanks for the feedback Andrew! It helps me stay motivated.
@@AdvancedTruckBacking Shazam fails to identify this song at the end. Can you help me out. What is that song?
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If you have power mirrors you can also bump the passenger side mirror out as you go to keep the back of the trailer in sight. Just don't forget to adjust it back when you're done.
Everything from the narration, explanation and the graphic visuals in these videos are of excellent quality. 2nd to none.
Thank you for the kind words!
When I was learning to back out muse the bottom of the steering wheel. What ever way you turn the wheel from the bottom is the trail cut direction.
I mention that option in Episode 8
i wish this kind of video was in my practice sessions instead of pressing and pushing students to pass the test rather than teaching them how to drive and control the trailer.
Thanks B! I hear a lot of horror stories from new drivers.
The way you think . Amazed me . Thanks man
So nice of you
Finally!!!! This is Rock Solid. Quality instructions and quality filming. I got it now. Clarity on how this is supposed to work
Thanks a lot! Happy to hear that!
I'm not new driver but still working backup sometimes is harder so we appreciate your maneuvers makes sense
Great! Thanks for the feedback. Stay safe.
Such a treat to watch the videos not only most fantastic intro videos, but also for most informative and well explained truck backing stuff. Underside and sideways cameras showing wheel positions while the tractor trailer are backed are especially useful and unique to this channe. Thank you for teaching mate.
Thank you sir! Glad you like them!
supercool timing: ."...or notice I am going to lose it" and right there we notice tires slightly exiting box.
I felt really getting there..
Having experience only with backing up 4-wheelers and garden/car trailers (poorly), I have the utmost respect for truckers who can back their rigs up into tight spaces. It seems other-wordly to me. I'm not a stupid person, but I think I would need a year of training before I could do that.
Your videos are excellent. Well thought-out and explained.
Thank you for the kind words.
Fantastic advice and training. Memorable images.
Going over the set ups was very helpful.
Getting a peak at the approach to the customer's facility and their bay on Google Earth before you even start is my SOP.
Glad it was helpful!
Need more videos. Your awesome. Thanks.
Need more videos yes!
I just became a mobile equipment specialist at a coal mine and I’ve been training on driving a coal hauler. I been screwing up backing the trailer up. There’s a lot of great information in this video.
I really Love your video. You explain everything very well. Thank you.
FINALLY ! A video that explains the “theory” and what to focus on. Most videos out there explain specific setups and made up “recepies” that can’t address every situations. When I approach a parking spot, what I want is a thought system. Thank you for that.
Awesome, thank you!
@@AdvancedTruckBacking
Anyone who is good at backing a STRAIGHT truck can QUICKLY transition to backing a trailer.
You only need to understand ONE thing.
What is steering your trailer ??
NO, not the steering axle of your tractor.
Instead, It is the DRIVE axle of your tractor that becomes the steering axle for a trailer.
Now, if you are good at backing a straight truck, you know how to change direction of your drive axle (and entire vehicle).
Next, manuver your tractor so that drive axle is pointing in desired direction to act as steering axle for a trailer.
In other words, your steering axle (or steering wheel) DOESN'T steer the trailer.
Your steering axle changes direction of (steers) your drive axle.
Then your drive axle steers the trailer.
These videos are supreme. AWESOME! Thanks.
I wish you are my mentor. Thanks for the video!
Happy to help! Be sure to watch the others Ben. Good Luck with everything.
I have been driving for 7 years. It took me years to get to this realization. I wish my instructor would have explained this in the way you are. Bravo, if I were an instructor I would use your videos to teach. Great job.
Thanks Jeremy! I appreciate that.
Best channel on trailer backing
Thanks! Good Luck to you!
@@AdvancedTruckBacking do you think you could do a video on understanding the clutch and the gears for new drivers… most of the videos on RUclips are so confusing and don’t break anything down very well. So any tips or tricks to get the timing down would be huge for so many people
www.ltlmentor.com/how-to-double-clutch-smoothly-the-only-guide-you-need/
www.ltlmentor.com/never-grind-gears-again-know-your-acceptable-shifting-rpm-range-and-stay-within-it/
I have two blog posts on the subject.
You got it on blindsiding. GOAL, GOAL and GOAL. Great instructive videos.
Love the content, thank you very much
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank you, fantastic work. Sense your passion to help correctly.
You're welcome! Thanks for noticing Chris! It bothers me to see people struggle.
Invaluable content sir great job.
Thank you so much for sharing all this great info. I am a yard jockey and starting cdl school next week. I have a much greater understanding of how they move now. the trainer I had was not the best. I have some knowledge from growing up around trucks and such. But Priceless is not a big enough word to use for you video's and knowledge. Again Thank you so much.
You are so welcome!
Wow!!! Extremely informative and helpful! Thanks so much!
Glad it was helpful!
I love your videos❤
Thank you, Sir!! Totally appreciated the video analysis and instructions!!
Glad it was helpful!
Love the channel my man not many willing to teach and so far I love the way you do it, subbed.
Thanks brother! Watch them all! Good luck to you!
I love the back round music you use. On the back up clips. Gets me motivated.
Make more videos! Love your material! Thanks for what your doing for the community!
Thank You ! and You're welcome!
Amazing content. You are the best
I appreciate that!
Great explanation keep em coming 👏
Thanks, will do!
Great video thanks
Glad you enjoyed it.
Great info
Thank you, this was so helpful.
You're so welcome!
This series is awesome 💯
Thanks! Glad you like them.
Ugh... downtown St Louis...
Thank You!! That was Great! I’ll be watching! I’m not a new driver however it’s always good to learn something new!!!
Great! Thanks for the feedback!
THE BEST in the class information, tutorial and videography!!
Thank you my friend!
Regarding arrow analogy, it's also in the wheel: top hand is controlpoint, bottomhand pivot
You're explaining more than I thought there was to know. Thanks
You're welcome!
Setup is king. Thank you again for all the valuable information 👍
My pleasure! 👍🏼
Thanks for putting these videos out, your editing and camera skills are as top notch as your driving.
I appreciate that! Thanks Bruce!
What can I said,just amazing job Sir.
thank you awesome description
You're welcome
that so fulfilled content ill have to see it all more than once so much experience is provided by incredible
Yeah mannnn...ur videos are a blessing....they hav helped me graspe tha concept right away
Thanks Rickardo!
I am so late here, but I thank you for these videos and tricks, very helpful even for those of us that played trucking simulators and had problems backing up.
Man how many hours of frustrations and bad advice you could have saved me for if I had these videos back in 2010!
But I do hope at least from here on out, the era of having to figure it out and being frustrated over not getting it, is over.
Still struggling with the B trains and backing them up and getting them straight.
My pleasure! Thank you for the kind words!
The best training I ever received
Good video 👍
I am a future truckdriver all the info you can add you will be appreciated thank you for your time
Where have you been? YOU SIR have truly helped make my backing improve. Just started driving about a month. Have had a CDL for long while decided I wanted to utilize it. Thank you for your in-depth explanation of backing. Thanks you area great teacher!!
Glad to hear that! Thanks a lot Bridget. 😊
More technical and mathematical skills and good explanation I appreciate and waiting more episode .Thank you
Thank you so much for your tutorial, I am in school now and unfortunately my trainer was unable or unwilling to bring up this details, his instructions are go left or go right figure on your own, not quite sure how or why he ended up as a trainer but the experience is cringe worthy.
You're welcome! Unfortunately the industry is in short supply of good trainers right now. I hear horror stories from students all of the time. They don't know how to describe what they do, so they lie to themselves and their students and say it can't be taught, and that you have to figure it out on your own. Then they get frustrated and yell at you for making mistakes. Don't let that trainer get you down. You'll be done with him soon enough. Stay positive and Good luck. Let us know how it goes.
Another great video
Thanks Jerry. I hope you find them all helpful.
This is huge I see you're videos in every tractor trailer schools playing in the future because wow sir do you have an amazing way of breaking things down in such an understanding way
Thanks a lot Ethan!
Your channel is great both for practice and for meditation
Glad you think so!
Thank you for your efforts! This is instruction as good as it gets. You have great insight to what the drivers brain is going through. My drive test is tomorrow. Gods speed!
This was super helpful, I’m currently in CDL school and definitely had the focusing on the rear in my head. You rock man
Thanks! Watch them all. Good luck!
A lot of people seem to have their rears in their heads. LOL.
Great video
Thanks!
You are Brilliant!
You are too kind. Thank you.
awesome thanks so much appriciations
Thanks and you’re welcome!
your just having my subscribe for video from me mate and have nice evening here in uk :D
Thanks & loads of ❤️ for the videos,im struggling a bit at driving skool.trying to understand yr vids
Happy to help! Watch them all in order a couple of times. Good Luck with everything!
Between 13'42'' to 13'54'' in which Shelton said " I don't want the front of this vehicle to leave my sight for too long. I will monitor the direction that my tractor is pushing against the front part of the trailer. The more sideways pressure I put on it, the faster the trailer rotates around its pivot point.
Every time I watched and re watched the above video scene and hearing Shelton said that, my tears start to flow down my cheek due to Sheldon's total compassionate concern displayed in his facial expression warning me about the gravity of the maneuver. It's like before I am going on a life and death mission I have someone pointing out all the dangers that I have to avoid. (Someone here = Sheldon).
I owe you my life Shelton. I paid 10K Dollars for an AZ course. At the end of the course I don't know anything about backing. They booked the road test for me and not to my surprise, I failed the offset to the left backing, I hit the cone. I went home and decided to look up on youtube to find help, no one clicked, until I came across Advanced Truck Backing which hit right into my heart/mind and soul in terms of the logical, clear, concise explanations accompanied with second to none graphics and video filming angles with great editing.
Wow Jason! Sorry you didn't find me sooner. 10k? Really? That's nuts! Thank you for the kind words! I know how important this is to people. People are struggling with backing, they are trying to better their lives, trying to get a better job so they can have a nicer house, a nicer car, put their kids in a better school. I have a chance here to make an impact and leave something behind..that makes me feel good. I remember the day I became passionate about teaching - I had a grown man that had been with 2 other trainers and was still struggling. At the end of our second day together, he finally had some positive results. We parked the tractor and were walking towards the terminal and he stopped me and shook my hand. With tears in his eyes he thanked me for being so patient with him. He finally felt some hope that he could do this. That's why I do this. Maybe someday you will become a trainer. Send me an email. I want to get your feedback on some premium content I'm working on. shelton@ltlmentor.com
I really like your style of illustration.
Thank You!
Megacool intro on trailer top really making message arrive
Best videos ever!!! New sub. Here to stay
Awesome! Thank you!
7-up in Vernon California is not fun. You should do a video from there
Nice video. Man an ariel view with a drone would be awesome
thank you
Thanks a lot! I'm definitely guilty of the opposite rule :D
OMG - Thanks!!!! This SO happened for me... At some point in my offset backing i stop and stare 💩 baffled by the realization that to stick with the "opposite rule" will further skew my desired alignment. 🙈 Brain turns into a hampster wheel unable to solve the equation. 🤯 You cleared the looming ???? and immovable blockades from my mind. I can see clearly now. Hopely my muscles will allow my mind to push it like a wheel barrow. 😂
Wonderful! 🙌🏽
I saw your sticker at the j in Edwardsville I wish I would have known about this whenever I was learning to drive instead of having to figure out all this stuff on my own
That's awesome! Thanks a bunch!
Great advice, thank you
Hands at 3 & 9 + elbows at your sides = mimics the front and back of trailer. Turn your elbows where you want the trailer tail to go.
Or, if you've ever played hockey, put the stick in your hands and shuffle backwards. Watch where your elbows go. It's the same dynamic
Thanks. Never heard that one before.
From one vet trucker to another, dude, you got mad skillz!
Thanks James!
Goal......get out and look....set up is everything
Great technique
Thank you!
I'm really enjoying this video series. Very well explained and logical. Every now and then I would think. Man this is handy to know. Then it hits me. I don't drive trucks!
(I do use the knowledge though to back my boat down the ramp!)
Awesome ! Thanks for watching.
You are a mistro! Thank you for your help, I am Relatively new to trucking and this is what I needed, this is not how I was trained. One of my biggest concerns was getting to a customer and how to back it in. Thank you.
You are very welcome!
*'Rounded Rectangles* ", You are way better than me at explaining stull than me in my videos. I love what you are doing! I will be taking a few pages from your book.
Thanks for the feedback! If you could give me a shout out it would be much appreciated. I like your videos as well.
One thing I watch most is the angle between the tractor frame and the trailer. You can view the drive axles of the tractor as the "steer axles" on a straight truck when backing
I can see that. Thanks Chase!
very like your videos do have video backing up b train
Thank you
You’re welcome Wendy!
I'm learning how to drive and the first thing I mention to my instructor was how I was paying attention to the front end of the trailer move.... he looked at my like I was crazy..... I knew I was right
Yes you are right! You will be backing circles around that instructor soon enough! 😁
I was also taught the opposite rule. Sometimes it helps but often times it just confuses me.😂 My co-driver gets so frustrated with me over my lack of backing skills. We joke that I don’t know my left from my right when backing. Like you mentioned, I also found that terms like ‘left’ and ‘right’ just weren’t helpful to me. Backing is still very challenging for me but I am enjoying your videos. Hopefully I will improve soon!
you will improve quickly when you abandon the left and right thinking. Good Luck to you!
I understand the tire side of trailer last trailer, My problems it the steering wheel positions at times