Phil sent this, the boy has some skillz!

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I would be hard pressed to back up a set of doubles like he does and I used to back a 48′ O2 tanker a half mile through the VA hospital in Tacoma, WA and where the tanks, a hard left and an immediate hard right turns at 3am in the morning.. One, he doesn’t use a trailer dolly for the second trailer, an extended trailer 5th wheel, so he doesn’t have two extra pivot points. It is a European truck and trailers and that suicide knob would get him a ticket here in the states. I don’t know if that length and set up of trailers and the bridging would be legal either.

Edited to add,

The Tactical Hermit sent it to me and I forwarded it to CederQ because I know he used to drive trucks.

Phil

17 thoughts on “Phil sent this, the boy has some skillz!”

  2. The knob’s illegal now? Hell, when I was a kid, most of my relatives who drove rigs (quite a few of them) had them.

  4. That’s somewhat similar to a Canadian B-Train. There’s a young owner-operator that has a YouTube channel and he’s as good at backing his rig up as this fellow is.

    I believe gross weights on the Canadian B-Trains is 140,000 pounds.

    Hat’s off to them both. They’re very talented guys.

  5. 42 years of driving truck Plus 20 years on the farm I can say that that takes practice. The fact that he has a railroad set up between his trailers makes it easier if he had a dolly that creates two more pivot Points to figure in. Now I backed up tandems and triples and it can be done as long as there’s not any other traffic to worry about. That’s the key to maneuvering large loads the less traffic the less stress. As to the suicide knob I may or may not have one on my truck, just saying.

  6. I am in awe!
    I suppose I COULD do a double, but my attempts would take hours and be excruciating to watch!!

  7. Had my Class A…. drove big rigs, in So. Cal including Los Angeles. Never had to drive doubles though. That takes some true next level skills.

  8. I grew up backing real short trailers with a farm tractor. I made the transition to backing semi trailers with no problem. Never drove a double or triple. My hat’s off to this guy. It’s obvious that he’s done this more than a time or two.

  11. Try, underneath a 200-Ton Air Freighter, Towbar to the Rear of the Nose Landing Gear, Back Up the Plane with a Tractor that does have 4-Wheel/Crab Steering….

    • While that sounds difficult (and, it *is*), the visibility of the Tow Tractor is immensely greater than sitting in a cab with two rear-view mirrors. I’d say the guy could make the transition to being a Pusher with only a week’s worth of practice. Right? Right??

  12. MAD skillz and no backup camera. Do it often enough and it becomes second nature , just like doing the whip when backing up a single trailer of any type.

    • Bear Claw, that is why God made mirrors, I loath back up cameras with a passion. Learn to trust your mirrors as they never lie…

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