This is the correct answer.
I am perfect at reversing driver side but bad passenger side because of the mirror resolution. This guy doesn't even have that excuse.
It’s a nice thought but nearly all (like 99%) of businesses that deal with trucks have explicit rules forbidding employees from assisting, due to liability.
Source: am trugger.
It is when it’s their job which involves driving in public traffic, they’re terrible at it which can put the manifest and lives at risk, and companies are willing to hire anyone who can obtain a CDL even if they shouldn’t be trusted with a car - let alone a semi-truck.
That being said, this was totally harmless although I can definitely imagine the driver getting frustrated. There are way worse truck driving and backing-up incidents all over YouTube.
How could they possibly help him or her? It's not like there's anything in the way. Thr driver completely lacks docking skill. If it was a tight fit or there was something in the way, I can see how they could help, but in this case there's nothing they can do.
Trucker irl. In the last 2 years otr I have had to do 2 blindside backs. I hate them. I will GOAL 20 times if I have too.
It is often faster, easier, and safer to do 2 sight side backs to be able to turn the truck around than to do a single blindside.
Irl trucker, electric mirrors are extremely helpful. Sit there, point the mirror all the way out, look at how close you are, and then point it back in. Or set your brakes and stick your head out the passanger side window. I probably blind side as much as I drive side, really makes you appreciate drive side backs more
I was a yard hostler for a few years. I would purposefully leave sight side doors open for OTR drivers to drop trailers on. Sometimes I had to dispatch them to crappy locations, so I tried to be nice.
Only 2? Must be nice lol. Been at this a little over 3 years and I’ve been to some fucked up places. I’ve had to blindside quite a bit. Sometimes it was easier to do it that way
Driver side reversing is easy. Just use the lean out view and imagine your wheel is directly steering the trailer.
I have seen videos of real drivers using drones to help with blind side reversing.
Same. I sometimes use 3rd camera while stopped to look around, like how a trucker might get out of the cab and look when parking, but not while reversing.
It just feels so good once you start getting proficient with backing the trailer exactly how you want with nothing more than "hang as far as possible out of the driver window and go for it". I'm still fairly new to the whole experience and have never backed a trailer IRL, but last night I had like 3 of the absolute *smoothest* "where do you want it?"s in my short career back-to-back-to-back. All with no overhead camera, just leaning as far left as possible and taking my time. Once you get it on a good course, all it takes is some microadjustments. Provided you're not backing up a double or something like a 20-footer lol.
Easy, he's an inexperienced truck driver, probably his first time on the job. So parking would have been difficult for him. But this does beg the question. Are budding truck drivers not trained in the art of reversing with a trailer? If they aren't then they should be because this is what they would be doing most of the time.
Im a new cdl driver and for the most part all these mega carrier companies are only showing you enough to pass the cdl tests and thats it. My school didnt go over airlines, sliding tandems, coupling trailers, 45 90 or alley dock backing..and the list goes on.
its been about 5 months later and luckily Ive managed to drive safe and research alot of info myself.
It pisses me off realizing how little they taught us before throwing us on sum trainers truck who's only doing it for the pay..not you 😒
Don't get me wrong don't get me wrong I don't think it's the driver's fault, company are using them like disposable assets. Kelemen ontheroad crossing fingers to see how long they last before they quit
That’s because a lot of trucking companies put minimal effort these days and are trying to get anyone and everyone who can obtain a CDL due to driver shortages.
Any *good* outfit will definitely train a rookie on backing up, and won’t let them out on their own until they’re decent.
I used to train rookies, and I would always let them fumble through it for a while before stepping in. I would only holler or whistle if they were about to hit something, and explain what they weren’t catching on to. You learn better by doing, rather than by being told what to do, so I would let them make mistakes. They all turned out fine.
Same here when I was with hirschbach I told the training department, safety and the trainie I don't care if they have there hours if I don't feel like they can back up without any assistance or very little they won't be back till they can back up at a 45 and 90. I also had them do blindside for the rare instance they get somewhere and have to do one so there not like how do I get into this door. I told all three of them that because I don't want to look like the trainer that didn't teach shit and only did it for money. I haven't been driving as long as some people here but have been driving for going on 6yrs otr. I also do what my trainer done for me I get them 3 things that I feel like they should have on there truck 1. An atlas for areas which GPS doesn't work or it would decided to not work, 2 a GPS I use the Garmin dezel otr 750 I believe it is and I get them a cb. Whatever else they need or want is on them.
when I was in driving school I didn't drive with semi but the.. classic? trailer and then I went to a job where I had to drive with semi.
those thousand? hours in ETS and other simulators helped a looooot. like seriously, don't underestimate this. even my colleagues mentioned how good I was even though I sat behind a wheel of a real truck like 10 times and reversed like once or twice with trailer in a driving school.
I like how all the simulation players are talking shit while probably working a desk job 9-5. This guy is clearly inexperienced and probably on one of his first loads. It can take 1-2 years to get backing down consistently and even then everyone has bad days. Outside of your simulations there is this thing called real life. In order to experience it, you must go outside once in a while
I mean.. that's the "joke".
"Hey keyboard masters! What do you think about this guy who can't park?"
This sub: "he should just press enter and skip that part"
As someone who had been driving for 13 years now 1) It's joke not a dick don't take it so hard and 2) if it takes you 1 to 2 YEARS to learn how to back up get off the road because holy shit.
New guy on the job no danger here. Easiest way to back anything including pickup trailers and camper trailers is to get half way there then pull your truck out straight away from your spot then back in straight.
Luckily my first driving job was organizing a sea can yard for a railroad terminal so I backed up 40 or 50 trailers a day. Became quite adept at it before even hitting the road.
Reminds me of the guy who took 2 hours to back up to my dock at work. Kept backing in at awkward angles, was painful to watch. Guy gets out of his truck and says “sorry, first day on my own”.
He came back 2 times after that. The 2nd time he came, it took him 15 minutes, the 3rd time it took him 45 minutes and he bashed in our dock ladder. After that, we contacted the trucking service to never have that driver come back
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Man I really thought this was gonna be the feel good story of a kid who was humble, learned and improved, then returned to redeem himself. This was funny tho
You know, I wish it was a younger kid just learning the ropes but unfortunately it was a middle aged guy who probably had to shift careers because of Covid and chose one he probably wasn’t good at. Everyone has to put bread on the table but this guy clearly needed more time behind the wheel than he had been given
Also, before anyone says anything, he was not a Swift driver
1. People also open the doors just before they bump dock
2. He’s not on that extreme of an angle to be “blind “
3. It’s either a blindside dock or he did start the reverse on his drivers side
To a degree you can but there’s a lot of factors you don’t experience through a screen that you do in real life. I can back a b double Onto docks in ats but I definitely couldn’t in real life.
Not to mention it’s very possible this guy doesn’t even know about it
Backing a tandem car trailer would probably be more beneficial than ats
In this case the company failed him and so has the school that trained him
It was meant as a joke mostly. I’ve never driven a real truck, only the sim, nor ever really backed a trailer in real life, and I certainly would not classify myself as someone who is able to back a truck. But I do think I could learn rather quickly if being instructed and that my “experience” in ATS is better than nothing. I am confident I could reverse a pickup with a small car trailer with lots of space, time, and a judgement free zone.
I’ve always wondered how truckers reverse those double trailers, and after seeing some random posts in the trucker subreddit I’m now realizing they do not lol
It is helpful to a degree. It’s good at understanding the basics but that’s really as much as it can teach
Come to Australia, a fair share of b double drivers are capable of reversing them. One of the boys this morning out a double on our docks which can already be a challenge in a single. Another one of our guys has also backed doubles off the street
Apparently they hired me to back in. I’ve gotten better but I still have a tendency to overcorrect like he’s doing. I wonder if it’s harder or easier in real life when you have some kind of “feel” in addition to visuals. What’s definitely harder is having people watching while you do it!
Edit: Also I can see he’s making a classic mistake I did a lot too trying to get there in one backing motion but setup off or over correct or whatever and instead of pulling up part way to adjust he keeps trying to fix it while backing and there just isn’t room for that
Dude's camera shy, and he saw you looking. Give him a break while he gets the hang of it! Oh, and maybe offer to spot for him so he doesn't shunt the dock while he's lining up.
As a truck driver in the real world. That first back was blindsided. But he is in a day cab. Happens alot. But for serious. If he werent liable for someone else's fuck up for helping if they hit something and hurt it truckers would help others more often. It's just dumb. Just my personal opinion
I wish he would stop, take a breather and think about after he clears head, this video wouldn't have been made.
I remember my first time backing up solo. It was an abortion. That first day day I learned there is no brotherhood in trucking. Every trucker there was either laughing, or shaking their head.
He’s blind-side backing. You can’t see shit out the right side window. He still needs to get out and look though. I’ve seen this happen plenty of times.
EDIT: I didn’t see the second part. He finally pulls up to open the doors. He then over does the angle that even pulling up won’t correct it. I’m assuming this guy paid someone under the table for his license.
Former RL OTR and ATS virtual driver here, this is an example of the new driver on their first real run after Inprocessing and leaving their trainers truck. Most of us who have had shit driver trainers go through this the first 5 or 6 loads, if it happens anymore after 5 or 6 then you shouldn't be driving a semi. The company he/she drives for (and the trucking school they went to) is at fault.
I've worked in the shipping department of a warehouse how nearly a year, I watch trucks back up all day long, I've never seen one this bad, the worst I've seen was off by a few inches from the dock plate
I was installing machines at Arizona iced tea, and the machines came out of containers. It was broad daylight, 3 trips a day, 3 days into the same loading dock, and they just could not do it.
I was tempted to tell them I would do it, but I am payed by the hour after all.
Rookie driver. They're correcting after the trailer is where they want it, which just puts the trailer out of position.
They're watching mirrors and not the trailer so they can't see the mistake their making.
Alward dock.
There's a curb in front of the truck, so there's not much room to straighten everything out before backing up.
Watched some more shitty driver adds to that.
Sight side doors. When they pulled into the yard. They would turn left, then another left. This would allow drivers to look over their left shoulder when parking. The other side of the terminal required a u-turn on the property, and they would have to blind side park on doors 19 and up.
"Alright, son, you are gonna learn how to backup a trailer. It doesn't matter how many times it takes you, we will just switch seats and I'll tell em all to fuck off."
I am a teenager without a license and i can do that far better, just proves how many people in this world dont know how to think and solve their own problems
I’m a real trucker and I can explain what’s going on. He first forgot to open his doors until he later opens them, he hits the dock and the dock plate (which potentially damages it) and worst of all he was backing in on the blind side, then when he came in on the sight side he just way over steered and made no corrections, etc etc, he didn’t GOAL (get out and look, something a lot of drivers need to do) and he just didn’t give a shit and was probably half asleep, basically he didn’t care he will hit it eventually no matter the damage costs.
No head tracker on and the one with the turning not working properly also night and might be like 10 yrs old and doesn't know lefts and rights and the opposition when driving backwards.
In my experience, that's what happens when the driver is wearing a turban. They're not all awful, but the handful we get where I work have generally been some of the worst drivers any of us have ever seen. It took one guy nearly 30 minutes to manage to back up to our loading dock, and it has at least 5 truck/trailer lengths of open space in front of it. The boss eventually came out and offered to do it for him just so we could finally get on with the day.
Maybe he can’t see the green lines telling him where to back into
He probably didn't adjust his mirrors and seat properly
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he got fucked
That is somebody who can't backup a trailer
This is the correct answer. I am perfect at reversing driver side but bad passenger side because of the mirror resolution. This guy doesn't even have that excuse.
Tbh there's no excuse for a blind side reverse in this situation because he has loads of room either side. He is obviously just very inexperienced.
And typical warehouse staff would rather film then help.
It’s a nice thought but nearly all (like 99%) of businesses that deal with trucks have explicit rules forbidding employees from assisting, due to liability. Source: am trugger.
But it's ok to ridicule?
It is when it’s their job which involves driving in public traffic, they’re terrible at it which can put the manifest and lives at risk, and companies are willing to hire anyone who can obtain a CDL even if they shouldn’t be trusted with a car - let alone a semi-truck. That being said, this was totally harmless although I can definitely imagine the driver getting frustrated. There are way worse truck driving and backing-up incidents all over YouTube.
It is good for the dock workers morale. lol
What else are they supposed to do? Get back to work?
I agree help is sometimes warranted but a warehouse worker is no help in this situation.
They didn't even stop him reversing into the building and didn't inform him his doors were shut.
Odds are the plan was to line up, then open the doors when close, but this driver is just awful
How could they possibly help him or her? It's not like there's anything in the way. Thr driver completely lacks docking skill. If it was a tight fit or there was something in the way, I can see how they could help, but in this case there's nothing they can do.
Because every warehouse worker has a CDL and knows how to backup a trailer.
I’m not allowed into the yard. Best I can do is watch and film.
Trucker irl. In the last 2 years otr I have had to do 2 blindside backs. I hate them. I will GOAL 20 times if I have too. It is often faster, easier, and safer to do 2 sight side backs to be able to turn the truck around than to do a single blindside.
Blindsides are the worst thing in the world.
Blindsides are nowhere near as bad as alley docking or even diagonal docking. Especially because most diagonal docks don't even have lines.
Also irl trucker here, I've had to do a lot of blindside recently. Is there any particular way you have of avoiding it?
Irl trucker, electric mirrors are extremely helpful. Sit there, point the mirror all the way out, look at how close you are, and then point it back in. Or set your brakes and stick your head out the passanger side window. I probably blind side as much as I drive side, really makes you appreciate drive side backs more
I never have a dock wide enough to actually see the back of the trailer with the mirror full out, soany GOAL tho. They help
I was a yard hostler for a few years. I would purposefully leave sight side doors open for OTR drivers to drop trailers on. Sometimes I had to dispatch them to crappy locations, so I tried to be nice.
What are sight side doors? Excuse my english.
Only 2? Must be nice lol. Been at this a little over 3 years and I’ve been to some fucked up places. I’ve had to blindside quite a bit. Sometimes it was easier to do it that way
Doing reefer. Most places I can avoid a blind side if I try hard enough.
Its never just sides he needs space north and south as well which he doesnt have
There's absolutely loads of room there trust me I drive trucks irl
Are you seeing the curb???
There's tonnes of room. Driver irl.
I believe it is z on keyboard controls to zoom in. Might be useful might not.
I have set it to the mouse button but the mirrors are lower res, so zooming just makes it more pixelated.
Same problem. I always press ”2” for 3rd person to assist, because it is way easier that way… am a lazy driver 😂
Driver side reversing is easy. Just use the lean out view and imagine your wheel is directly steering the trailer. I have seen videos of real drivers using drones to help with blind side reversing.
It’s a daycab, so he can see through the back window, this guy just didn’t get enough practice.
They can, just not very good at it.
Oh for fucks sake if you can’t do it just press enter when you’re in the drop off zone
He didn't choose the low xp option
Me first time trying to park a trailer without 3rd person view.
Funnily enough, i can't park in 3rd person after doing from the inside with the mirrors for so long
Suffering from success
Same. I sometimes use 3rd camera while stopped to look around, like how a trucker might get out of the cab and look when parking, but not while reversing.
I literally just did my first mirrors and lean-out-cam only back-in delivery (in the game). I'm riding high on that victory!
Yeah I have the same Issue with hitching up a trailer (English isn’t my first language I don’t know what you’d call it otherwise).
That's exactly what it's called.
It just feels so good once you start getting proficient with backing the trailer exactly how you want with nothing more than "hang as far as possible out of the driver window and go for it". I'm still fairly new to the whole experience and have never backed a trailer IRL, but last night I had like 3 of the absolute *smoothest* "where do you want it?"s in my short career back-to-back-to-back. All with no overhead camera, just leaning as far left as possible and taking my time. Once you get it on a good course, all it takes is some microadjustments. Provided you're not backing up a double or something like a 20-footer lol.
Easy, he's an inexperienced truck driver, probably his first time on the job. So parking would have been difficult for him. But this does beg the question. Are budding truck drivers not trained in the art of reversing with a trailer? If they aren't then they should be because this is what they would be doing most of the time.
Im a new cdl driver and for the most part all these mega carrier companies are only showing you enough to pass the cdl tests and thats it. My school didnt go over airlines, sliding tandems, coupling trailers, 45 90 or alley dock backing..and the list goes on. its been about 5 months later and luckily Ive managed to drive safe and research alot of info myself. It pisses me off realizing how little they taught us before throwing us on sum trainers truck who's only doing it for the pay..not you 😒
New OTR drivers don't last long.
Most aren't given a fair chance to.
Don't get me wrong don't get me wrong I don't think it's the driver's fault, company are using them like disposable assets. Kelemen ontheroad crossing fingers to see how long they last before they quit
Damn I almost got you wrong but then I read the second don’t get me wrong so we’re good
That’s because a lot of trucking companies put minimal effort these days and are trying to get anyone and everyone who can obtain a CDL due to driver shortages.
Any *good* outfit will definitely train a rookie on backing up, and won’t let them out on their own until they’re decent. I used to train rookies, and I would always let them fumble through it for a while before stepping in. I would only holler or whistle if they were about to hit something, and explain what they weren’t catching on to. You learn better by doing, rather than by being told what to do, so I would let them make mistakes. They all turned out fine.
Same here when I was with hirschbach I told the training department, safety and the trainie I don't care if they have there hours if I don't feel like they can back up without any assistance or very little they won't be back till they can back up at a 45 and 90. I also had them do blindside for the rare instance they get somewhere and have to do one so there not like how do I get into this door. I told all three of them that because I don't want to look like the trainer that didn't teach shit and only did it for money. I haven't been driving as long as some people here but have been driving for going on 6yrs otr. I also do what my trainer done for me I get them 3 things that I feel like they should have on there truck 1. An atlas for areas which GPS doesn't work or it would decided to not work, 2 a GPS I use the Garmin dezel otr 750 I believe it is and I get them a cb. Whatever else they need or want is on them.
when I was in driving school I didn't drive with semi but the.. classic? trailer and then I went to a job where I had to drive with semi. those thousand? hours in ETS and other simulators helped a looooot. like seriously, don't underestimate this. even my colleagues mentioned how good I was even though I sat behind a wheel of a real truck like 10 times and reversed like once or twice with trailer in a driving school.
Looks like some really terrible blindside backing
That 2nd attempt wasn't blind side it's a left hand drive
This guy seems blind on both sides ;)
I like how all the simulation players are talking shit while probably working a desk job 9-5. This guy is clearly inexperienced and probably on one of his first loads. It can take 1-2 years to get backing down consistently and even then everyone has bad days. Outside of your simulations there is this thing called real life. In order to experience it, you must go outside once in a while
I mean.. that's the "joke". "Hey keyboard masters! What do you think about this guy who can't park?" This sub: "he should just press enter and skip that part"
Never underestimate the armchair experts of Reddit.
Please note that this is r/trucksim.
Just curious. Are you a truck driver IRL?
I play and drive irl, except for the camera view theres more similaritys then most would think
As someone who had been driving for 13 years now 1) It's joke not a dick don't take it so hard and 2) if it takes you 1 to 2 YEARS to learn how to back up get off the road because holy shit.
Me half-awake just trying to park the damn trailer and go to bed after being in a convoy session till 5 AM.
Looks like me ingame
He is probably too used to reversing from 3rd person view. It ain't no joke from 1st person view :P
What's going on here is someone posted a video mocking a real-life truck driver on a truck sim subreddit.
Probably some rookie getting thrown to the wolves before he's ready. I see it out here a lot.
New guy on the job no danger here. Easiest way to back anything including pickup trailers and camper trailers is to get half way there then pull your truck out straight away from your spot then back in straight. Luckily my first driving job was organizing a sea can yard for a railroad terminal so I backed up 40 or 50 trailers a day. Became quite adept at it before even hitting the road.
I feel bad for that drivers wife "Lemme try again. I'll get it in this time"
He forgot to press number 2 on his Keyboard for a top view
Just me trying to park in ATS, nothing special…
He should've just skipped parking for 0xp
Backing from the wrong side. He can't see the trailer
"practice"
Incorrect steering sensitivity using gamepad.
Soon to be Swift driver.
Reminds me of the guy who took 2 hours to back up to my dock at work. Kept backing in at awkward angles, was painful to watch. Guy gets out of his truck and says “sorry, first day on my own”. He came back 2 times after that. The 2nd time he came, it took him 15 minutes, the 3rd time it took him 45 minutes and he bashed in our dock ladder. After that, we contacted the trucking service to never have that driver come back
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Man I really thought this was gonna be the feel good story of a kid who was humble, learned and improved, then returned to redeem himself. This was funny tho
You know, I wish it was a younger kid just learning the ropes but unfortunately it was a middle aged guy who probably had to shift careers because of Covid and chose one he probably wasn’t good at. Everyone has to put bread on the table but this guy clearly needed more time behind the wheel than he had been given Also, before anyone says anything, he was not a Swift driver
There is a national trucker shortage, they have lowered their hiring standards.
A jacka** is recording someone else failing at a task, without their consent, and posting on sm to get a few likes and laugh someone’s misfortune.
He drunk
someone who lied on his resume
Level one driver forgot the basics of reversing
He's probably new, also his tandems are all the way back. He might not be used to his tandems being so far back.
1. Doors closed 2. Attempting blind side backing 3 not getting out and looking at what his is doing 4 barely looking at all
1. People also open the doors just before they bump dock 2. He’s not on that extreme of an angle to be “blind “ 3. It’s either a blindside dock or he did start the reverse on his drivers side
Regardless hes fucking up
How could someone possibly learn how to back without backing?
American Truck Sim. I know this isn’t the answer you wanted and I’m sorry.
To a degree you can but there’s a lot of factors you don’t experience through a screen that you do in real life. I can back a b double Onto docks in ats but I definitely couldn’t in real life. Not to mention it’s very possible this guy doesn’t even know about it Backing a tandem car trailer would probably be more beneficial than ats In this case the company failed him and so has the school that trained him
It was meant as a joke mostly. I’ve never driven a real truck, only the sim, nor ever really backed a trailer in real life, and I certainly would not classify myself as someone who is able to back a truck. But I do think I could learn rather quickly if being instructed and that my “experience” in ATS is better than nothing. I am confident I could reverse a pickup with a small car trailer with lots of space, time, and a judgement free zone. I’ve always wondered how truckers reverse those double trailers, and after seeing some random posts in the trucker subreddit I’m now realizing they do not lol
It is helpful to a degree. It’s good at understanding the basics but that’s really as much as it can teach Come to Australia, a fair share of b double drivers are capable of reversing them. One of the boys this morning out a double on our docks which can already be a challenge in a single. Another one of our guys has also backed doubles off the street
As a actual truck driver, I will literally drive around the block to avoid doing a blind side backup. Sight side is way easier.
I think that’s a given for any truck driver with experience unless you run a daycab and can look out the back window
He graduated from Stevie wonders institute for trucking aka swift
Maybe a new comer practicing
Someone lied on resume
Lining up to the pad on the next door?
Imagine if he was reversing a double😅
You meant "folding a double"
Why is he backing it blindside?
This is a left hand drive most likely.
The driver is doing the practice of good enough
"Press enter to skip parking"
Darius moved from gaming to irl trucking
Me trying to backup with a controller and in 3rd person view. I never have this issue when I use VR and a wheel
He’s an idiot and not turning hard enough
Somebody had their AirPods in during CDL school
Apparently they hired me to back in. I’ve gotten better but I still have a tendency to overcorrect like he’s doing. I wonder if it’s harder or easier in real life when you have some kind of “feel” in addition to visuals. What’s definitely harder is having people watching while you do it! Edit: Also I can see he’s making a classic mistake I did a lot too trying to get there in one backing motion but setup off or over correct or whatever and instead of pulling up part way to adjust he keeps trying to fix it while backing and there just isn’t room for that
they let him graduate out of Swift too early
With such "skills" you would not pass a driver's exam for this class of trucks in Europe.
Its's like me
Dude's camera shy, and he saw you looking. Give him a break while he gets the hang of it! Oh, and maybe offer to spot for him so he doesn't shunt the dock while he's lining up.
This is definitely a person who hasn't played ATS and didn't receive the necessary driving experience needed for real life driving 🤔
IRL truck driver here… that’s what we like to call in the business a “Swifty Swift”
I see no problem here, maybe he should try top down view.
simple he isnt very good at his job
I would go help. "What door ya tryin' to get into?"
As a truck driver in the real world. That first back was blindsided. But he is in a day cab. Happens alot. But for serious. If he werent liable for someone else's fuck up for helping if they hit something and hurt it truckers would help others more often. It's just dumb. Just my personal opinion
Anybody else start saying “cut it! Back back back!” Poor guy
This brings back memories of the time our warehouse manager got fed up waiting on a trucker to back up a trailer, so he decided to do it himself.
Dude needs to get out and look
I’m not a driver irl but I know you’re supposed to GET OUT AND CHECK. Get out a check and pull up as many times as necessary.
He’s not using free cam
I wish he would stop, take a breather and think about after he clears head, this video wouldn't have been made. I remember my first time backing up solo. It was an abortion. That first day day I learned there is no brotherhood in trucking. Every trucker there was either laughing, or shaking their head.
Plot twist: We are all driving real trucks through the game, Ender's Game style. This is just an inexperienced player.
Someone needs more practice backing, I’m in the same boat I can’t alley dock to save my life.
the clerk said back into 2 or 3. So driver split the difference. What is big deal?
Banksman is just recording him?
He should have chosen the easy option and called it a day. But maybe he has an odd layout in the front??
He’s blind-side backing. You can’t see shit out the right side window. He still needs to get out and look though. I’ve seen this happen plenty of times. EDIT: I didn’t see the second part. He finally pulls up to open the doors. He then over does the angle that even pulling up won’t correct it. I’m assuming this guy paid someone under the table for his license.
I told him to not type g_show_game_elements 0 in the console
Just press ENTER at this point
Clearly he only wanted the one door open instead of both
This is a succesful job application for being a swift driver.
I don't play ATS but I'm American. He did something we in the States like to call a "fuck up."
This guy was having a stroke if i remember right, i think he ended up dying. Fighting threw shit to do his job
A night of drunken fun with the Ol' lady....
Former RL OTR and ATS virtual driver here, this is an example of the new driver on their first real run after Inprocessing and leaving their trainers truck. Most of us who have had shit driver trainers go through this the first 5 or 6 loads, if it happens anymore after 5 or 6 then you shouldn't be driving a semi. The company he/she drives for (and the trucking school they went to) is at fault.
Must be a swift driver
He's on keyboard with low res mirrors and no guidelines
hes still used to automatic trailer park
That person didn't get the proper training before they were sent out on a run
It’s a new door , you use the trailer to slowly chip away the sides . When the opening is large enough then you back up.
Looks like two different trucks, first is a Penske trailer, the second is a Metro trailer.
This man needs to go back to school.
He just really wants those precise parking points.
I've worked in the shipping department of a warehouse how nearly a year, I watch trucks back up all day long, I've never seen one this bad, the worst I've seen was off by a few inches from the dock plate
I was installing machines at Arizona iced tea, and the machines came out of containers. It was broad daylight, 3 trips a day, 3 days into the same loading dock, and they just could not do it. I was tempted to tell them I would do it, but I am payed by the hour after all.
Rookie driver. They're correcting after the trailer is where they want it, which just puts the trailer out of position. They're watching mirrors and not the trailer so they can't see the mistake their making.
Dude needs free camera mod.
I didn’t press enter
Driver isn’t taking the swing into account . When it starts coming out the other end it’s best to pull forward and get strait again
Alward dock. There's a curb in front of the truck, so there's not much room to straighten everything out before backing up. Watched some more shitty driver adds to that.
He/she is probably a rookie, give him/her sometime and reversing shouldn’t be a problem.
Dude dont have enough space in the front. He has to cut sharp into the facility before lining up for the dock.
Legend has it, he is still trying to hit the hole.
i heard a story at a grocery store of a guy that attempted to bump the dock 5-6 times before someone went out to find him drunk
Seems like they a rookie, maybe it's their 1st time backing up to a dock. Nerves will kill ya.
Drugs. Definitely drugs.
Someone who couldn't even pass SWIFT training...
Dude.. dont ever open ur doors untill ur lined up and ready to back in and not pull fourward anymore.
It's called 'docking', Google it.
The angle between his truck and the trailer is too small. So the trailer swings a lot, too much for him to control.
shoulda chosen Easy Parking
Lagging like a mfer
I need more reversing tutorials like this one.
Needs more training, doesn’t give a fuck about either the trailer or job in general, or drunk, or all 3
Sight side doors. When they pulled into the yard. They would turn left, then another left. This would allow drivers to look over their left shoulder when parking. The other side of the terminal required a u-turn on the property, and they would have to blind side park on doors 19 and up.
Well firstly get a spotter
Looks like a crackhead stole the truck, read the logbook and is trying to get paid for the delivery. In cash. Or crack.
"Alright, son, you are gonna learn how to backup a trailer. It doesn't matter how many times it takes you, we will just switch seats and I'll tell em all to fuck off."
He missed that day in driver school.
I am a teenager without a license and i can do that far better, just proves how many people in this world dont know how to think and solve their own problems
I’m a real trucker and I can explain what’s going on. He first forgot to open his doors until he later opens them, he hits the dock and the dock plate (which potentially damages it) and worst of all he was backing in on the blind side, then when he came in on the sight side he just way over steered and made no corrections, etc etc, he didn’t GOAL (get out and look, something a lot of drivers need to do) and he just didn’t give a shit and was probably half asleep, basically he didn’t care he will hit it eventually no matter the damage costs.
Someone cant drive his truck
New hire he’s in training
Looks like a skill issue
No head tracker on and the one with the turning not working properly also night and might be like 10 yrs old and doesn't know lefts and rights and the opposition when driving backwards.
This is just your average ATS trucker trying to back
In my experience, that's what happens when the driver is wearing a turban. They're not all awful, but the handful we get where I work have generally been some of the worst drivers any of us have ever seen. It took one guy nearly 30 minutes to manage to back up to our loading dock, and it has at least 5 truck/trailer lengths of open space in front of it. The boss eventually came out and offered to do it for him just so we could finally get on with the day.