backing up
 

just a wondering if i'm the only one here that has trouble backing up bobtail ? i have a slick disk, so i dont unhook to grease 5th.. after driving 3 thou mi's every week, every now & then i'll unhook to do a few things to trailer or tractor. when backing one day last month into bay to get tires on. i kept backing as if i had trailer hooked up, but it wasnt. this isnt the first time this happened to me. strange looking out of my drivers side window & seeing no trailer, but backing as if one was there.. :oops: some of the mechanics got a laugh watching me zig-zag across the parking lot...

:? I have a Ford pickup, with a 4-speed, as my personal vehical.
I'm forever double clutching. :lol:
It's a real wakeup...when I try to "float" a gear. :P

:lol: :P Dont ya just love those synchronized transmissions in pickups. :shock: :P :lol:

:shock: OMG!!! I just noticed how I spelled veehickol. :lol:

:oops: Please note the time. :P :D

You think it's bad trying to back bobtail. Try hooking a little 16 foot horse trailer onto a pickup truck and backing it up after you've been used to 48 or 53 foot trailers... Talk about embarassing... :oops:

Sucker gets away from you so quick it'll make your head spin!

The bobtail thing is actually pretty common from talking to other drivers.

I remember one night driving home at 4 am in 5speed car and I wasn't double clutching, and it was freaking me out that I wasn't doing it. After a few shifts I caught myself and bribed the hamster to get back on the wheel. I was in trucking school at the time so I had to double clutch. Oh...I also had to remeber that reverse in my car is the opposite than in the truck...those early mornings really kick me in the ass sometimes.