After reading some of the other posts below,I will add a couple of situations I have seen.I worked as a truck mechanic for 40 years,at least 25 or more near downtown Cincinnati,Ohio.At the UPS in Queensgate,the spotter has to jackknife a whole row of pups at the dock almost 90* with the yard dog.And the whole row has spotted one end to the other; you can't pull one out from the middle of the line.It's harder and tighter than it sounds. At the Kahns' plant,drivers had to back in off of Spring Grove avenue with their reefer trailers hanging out into the first lane,after they dropped the trailer.In fact,almost every company on Spring Grove had docks facing the street that had to be jackknifed into; some even drop downhill.Considering I-75 took the place of Spring Grove avenue,I bet those docks were a lot more fun back in the day of manual steering. A lot of docks I have seen,a man could barely fit between trailers,and the drivers could not get a straight shot at the dock to back it in.And much of this was at night! I went on a road call once to replace a trailer valve.The driver was required to back thru 2 tunnels,that were offset from each other,to get to the dock.The tunnels were arched,as long as the whole rig,so he had to stay in the middle and not hit the roof corner on the arches.Then make it thru the offset,to line up for the 2nd tunnel,then the dock. My hat is off to all drivers that had to put up with such crazy, difficult situations,on a daily basis,and the fight traffic on top of that. Mark
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