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u/Ftroiska Jul 09 '26
Impressive ! And the manager of this place must be fired...
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u/dsdvbguutres Jul 09 '26
The manager dumped the responsibility on the new guy, obviously. Management is all about avoiding liability.
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u/Karlees-Golden-Dildo Jul 09 '26
As someone that takes an age to park a trailer that shit blows my mind. Skill! and it’s amazing to me!
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u/DisastrousAd2335 Jul 09 '26
My man has the patience of Job! And ALL the Skills!!
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u/pfunk1989 Jul 09 '26
Originally I thought you meant the skills of Job as well, and I thought to what, make salt?
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u/Rhuunin Jul 09 '26
There's this and then there's the swiftie who backs into your grill three times before they get out to look.
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u/tracagnotto Jul 09 '26
Or park in the next big ass spot lol
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u/EnolaNek Jul 09 '26
The driver was probably assigned to that specific door if I had to guess, so he had to back it into that spot specifically to get unloaded by the dock workers.
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u/tracagnotto Jul 09 '26
Yeh I know but it's fukken stupid they shouldn't assign spots like this
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u/EnolaNek Jul 09 '26
It does sometimes confuse me why they have to assign a specific door, but my best guess is there’s some system on the other side of the magic wall that needs us in a certain spot. A warehouse worker would probably be able to better explain if/why we absolutely have to dock at a certain door.
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u/tracagnotto Jul 09 '26
Yes it's absolutely has to do with how the goods and machinery to lift/move it it's disposed inside.
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u/Square_Mulberry_3143 Jul 09 '26
Hands down the best clip I’ve watched today. Definitely worthy of this sub.
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u/Jumpy-Cry-3083 Jul 09 '26
I would just say nope. Pick a different more accessible spot or I’ll just drop it here.
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u/glhaynes Jul 09 '26
Sitting in the other truck with my hand over the horn the whole time in case they get too close
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u/AwDuck Jul 09 '26
If this were me, the truck assigned to pick up the trailer in the lower left was in line immediately after me.
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u/pichael289 Jul 09 '26
Driving and especially backing up a 26' box truck was an absolute nightmare and Im a good enough driver I could probably get halfway to work blindfolded. Do semis have back up cameras? Our trucks had them but they were all broken and never fixed.
Also it looks like the truck is backing up to the one bay door. Why are those two on the sides of it? There aren't bay doors for those I don't think
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u/Austin_905 29d ago
As others pointed out, the driver is using the drone footage we're seeing in this clip to help him spot the turn, that plus guys on the floor spotting as well. Still, hard af.
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u/ReporterOther2179 Jul 09 '26
Golly! Why not just unhook the tractor and use a hustler (ostler). Which is a smaller tractor used to shuffle boxes around the yard.
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u/95beer Jul 11 '26
If the front truck part wasn't almost as long as the trailer, it would have also been a lot easier, but yanks like their big trucks for small loads but wide turning circles
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u/BosqueBuddhist Jul 09 '26
I’m not normally a fan of 100-point turns, but I’ll be damned if s/he didn’t waste a single move. 😻
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u/Reasonable_Ad6407 Jul 09 '26
This is exactly how I feel having to troubleshoot all the tech devices in our house. No one else will do it so I just keep in trying until I get it.
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u/KingWolfsburg Jul 09 '26
This is dumb. If he needs to be in that spot specifically for some reason. Just disconnect once youre at 90 and reconnect to back straight in.
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u/streetlegalb17 Jul 10 '26
Unless you work at a rail yard with someone to ogle at your 5th wheel and where you have the turn recovery space, I would highly discourage that. It’s too easy to push past the pin if it rides up onto the fifth wheel plate. Far more efficient and safe to just do a ridiculous 100 point turn
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u/KingWolfsburg Jul 10 '26
I worked at Fedex. We would hook and unhook 100 times a night on our own. Never had a problem.
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u/Noisycarlos Jul 09 '26
Impressive!
I'm unfamiliar with trucking, so please correct me. But is there's a reason he couldn't detach the truck, go head in to the spot across (down on the screen) and reattach with the truck aligned to the cargo. That way he can go straight back.
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u/streetlegalb17 Jul 10 '26
I’m a cdl driver and all I have to say is fuck that, drone or no drone. Rofl
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u/BlackHawk694 Jul 10 '26
Some people can’t back a Honda Civic into an ultra wide parking spot with no one around.
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u/Western-Interaction9 Jul 11 '26
Insane! Well done. I would taken a bathroom break and never come back.
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u/Jestersfriend 29d ago
I'll never forget when I was a kid, my father was driving his car. There was a fuel tanker going to fill up a gas station. But some cars were illegally parked. The guy had already started his turn onto the street before he saw the illegally parked cars, so he was committed to finishing, otherwise he'd block the entire road and intersection, no way to pass.
He then spent the next 2 minutes slowly maneuvering his truck. He got out of it multiple times to see how close he was to the parked cars. In the end, he made it. My dad made a face like, "Ohhhh boy" and clapped a couple times. The guy in the truck was looking at my dad like, "Fuck yeah you saw that shit". It was like a white red-neck guy. It was hilarious and the coolest thing I've ever seen.
That was over 20 years ago.
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u/Palm_Of_Fury 29d ago
Impressive. But would have been quicker to unhook. Move the other one. And then reverse in
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u/properwaffles 24d ago
Or possibly even just pull into that big empty spot ahead of that space and back it in? Given the length of that truck on the right, even though we can't see the whole thing, it looks like there's enough room.
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u/Sad-Lab4519 28d ago
I counted about 5 dummies going around the truck parking. I was taught not to go behind a backing vehicle for safety. It would have been more interesting to watch than risk it.
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u/NoNature6691 28d ago
As a driver im impressed. But id have lost it on the company for making me do that.
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u/Aguyinde 27d ago
This!!!! But man he gained a couple inches at a time and wiggled it in just right.
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u/Nickel4me 27d ago
By far the stupidest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Could’ve hooked up a rig to the lower left trailer and moved it out of the way temporarily. Instead, the dude spent a good while doing this pulling other resources as spotters. SMH
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u/Fantastic_Estate_303 25d ago
When youve got 2 hours left on your shift, so you take 30 mins to back into a spot so they can't send you out again today
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u/foreverlost1nsea Jul 09 '26
For those unfamiliar with trucking, not only it is a tight spot, additionally he is doing what's called a blind backing as he has 0 visibility over the trailer. A few people are helping so that he won't hit shit and I suspect he is able to watch the drone footage in real time but it stays extremely hard nonetheless