New Mexico
1. Straight line forward to within 12" of cones at the front corners of the lane. Our training Pete had one of those "crossover" mirrors like on a schoolbus. It made it a snap to come with just inches of the cones. We then had to back out of the same lane about 100 ft without leaving the lane or nailing a cone.
2. 45 degree alley dock with the typical cone Wall ahead of you.
3. A "Jackback", which I guess is what others call parallel parking ... this simulated parking from a driving to a parking lane in both blind and sight side situations. The tractor had to end up jack knifed 45 degrees from the trailer and the drive wheels could not cross what would be a line where a curb would be. Our school had campus's in both New Mexico and in Texas as we're only 40 miles apart. The Texas guys did NOT have to do the jackback, but had some other requirement which escapes me right now, but might have been a backing "S" maneuver.
If I recall correctly, we were allowed two GOAL's. (No GOALs on the forward cone or backing maneuvers) We could come close to the imaginary dock in the 45 maneuver, do a GOAL, pace out how much further we had to go to get it right, and then mark off in the dirt beside the tractor, that same distance. We just lined up a scratch or something on the windowsill with the forward most mark and backed up until that scratch left that mark and hit the rearmost mark. It was pretty idiot proof.
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