Going Straight and In Circles

4 more hours behind the wheel today.  Did another pre trip inspection and 3 hours of backing and pull up practice.  Getting smoother on the shifting.  Got it up to 6th gear and back down before I ran out of real estate.  Got the thumbs up from Wilt, my instructor.  The last hour we spent driving around the lot and practicing alley docking ( pulling the truck up at a 90 degree angle to a simulated loading dock then turning right to about 45 degrees and then backing between the cones )

Wilt told me to think of the angles like lining up a pool shot.  Minnesota Fats I ain’t 😆

I was driving an older Freightliner with a 53′ trailer today.  One of the trucks that stays in the yard because they can’t drive it on the street.  They use it to show examples of things that fail the pre trip 😯

 

 alley docking

Next week we work on this some more, parallel parking & coupling/uncoupling.