How to Make a Right Turn + Left Turn in a Tractor Trailer Without Hitting Anything

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Negotiating a right turn or a left turn in a tractor trailer is a challenging maneuver for the truck driver. In this video, we'll show you how to turn right or left in a tractor trailer, without hitting anything (which is the name of the game!)
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@SmartTrucking 2 года назад

Hey there, Driver. Thanks for dropping by to check out today's video. If you've had a turning accident, how did it turn out? Do you dread taking right turns in cities? Love to hear from you.

@Tyler-xe1es 2 года назад

Dave, Fact there is a video on this is mind-boggling.

@williamestes5559 3 дня назад

I am always in awe of the skill of drivers who execute tricky turns. Y'all are all right

@bigeric8334 2 года назад

I just swing as wide as possible, if I don't fit no one moves until they back up lol

@garypollard9770 2 года назад

The right hand turn was spot on! I was in Denver, CO. one time making a right turn at a very tight intersection! As I was making the turn I did everything that you suggested during the turn. In making the turn the blind spot was created, I also used my electric mirror on my passenger side, my right hand turn signal was flashing on the front fender, the bottom of my passenger side mirror, the bottom of my sleeper panel, the middle of my trailer and the back of my trailer. Yet with all of these flashing lights and my tractor turning right one of these very, very annoying 4 wheelers drive up into my blind spot! Luckily I had my window down and heard her blowing her horn and I seen her because I was using the electric turning switch on my mirror so I also seen her and I stopped just before crushing her little car! So I had traffic stopped until she finally decided to back up, because there was no way that I was going to move, all the while I could see her mouth wagging and her hands waving about, because it was my fault! I checked to make sure nothing was hit and everything and everyone was alright before moving on.

@markpoore3260 2 года назад

Most accidents I’ve seen are from 4 wheelers in a hurry run into the side of the trailer during the turn

@jukkahatinen6008 2 года назад

I drive 108 ft long High Capacity Transport truck and intersections are rarely map out for trucks as that long here. But I have never hit anything. I always look at first what I do need to remember, when turning right or left. Often I need to wait until other vehicles are gone out of my way and after that I can turn freely. But sometimes there is some person car or so, who just don’t understand what I’m trying to do, no matter if I have my blinker on, but it needs some patience from truck driver. My max total weight in law is 150K pound and I can haul two 45 feet containers in same time. Keep up with good work out there!

@konstantinpodleski6103 2 года назад

I think you are doing an invaluable service for workers everywhere! Please keep doing this work and spreading the word about working conditions and opportunities for truckers!

@markfloden Год назад

Thanks. I always enjoy your videos

@ERS1228 Год назад

Thank You Very Much My Good Brother For The Valuable Information!!! God Bless You And Yourz!!!

@giovanniparassuco569 2 года назад

New driver here, my issue is turning when it’s dark at night, never sure if I’m clearing what I’m supposed to be.

@StefanBacon 2 года назад

Great advice. The only thing I would suggest is that if the intersection allows (road turning onto is wide enough) staying along the curb is better to prevent a rununder.

@franciscopinedo1552 2 года назад

great info sir thanks.

@scharfvehiclemedia 2 года назад

Great content, Dave 👍🏻

@lisahansel4216 2 года назад

Awesome tips! Ty

@travisnewton9337 2 года назад

I've had that happen twice now.. LUCKILY there was no accident both times simply because I also had my window down(the one time) and checked the mirror one last time milliseconds before turning the wheel.. Making right hand turns man, passenger vehicles taking the shoulder to make a a right inside your right happens.. Both times I just came to a complete stop(very unpleasantly) and let the vehicle on my right make their turn, then completed mine. And way to represent for Canada 🇨🇦 I'm a younger trucker up in Northern Ab And I enjoy learning a thing or two off these videos! Keep it up 👍

@karamdeepsurya6121 2 года назад

Thank you boss 👍 Really helpful ✌️✌️

@honestly101 2 года назад

Thank you very much.

@observation2384 2 года назад

WELL. I SHOULD BE OUT THERE BY JUNE 15. 2022......THANK YOU FOR YOUR AND OTHER TRUCKERS VIDEOS !!!!

@hudson8865 2 года назад

Thank you.

@jeremydavis4363 7 месяцев назад

Thank you sir🎉

@lyght3043 2 года назад

I'd something is better your line of sight and trailer tires you're going to hit it, if not you're fine. Has always worked for me.

@massimoforesti 2 года назад

I remember when I was in college, down the street from the campus was a corner frequented by truck drivers. They were coming from a distribution facility nearby. I remember at least once a week, I'd see a driver hop the curb while making a right turn onto the main street

@neolithic3 2 года назад

I'm not a truck driver but I love your videos. Could you do a video about how to fix your position once you are halfway into a turn or maneuver and you know it's going wrong? How do you fix it? It always amazes me how people navigate these giant trucks around tight and busy roads.

@lyght3043 2 года назад

Sometimes all you can do is stop and wait for the problem car to move out of the way.

@neolithic3 2 года назад

@@lyght3043 I'd be so anxious driving a giant truck

@smol_yote 2 года назад

Hey Dave, I’m curious if you can make a video of A-Trains in a broad sense like driving them, the type of industries that use them, things I didn’t expect? I watched your B-Train video and adore it as they seem to be more common here in Utah With Double Long Dump trailers

@tylerw.9305 6 месяцев назад

Hello! You have some amazing videos and great advice! I'm not sure if you'll see this being one of your older videos but I just got my CDL last year and have been driving tandem dump trucks but really wanna get into pulling side dumps or delivering fuel. However I'm not confident in making right turns. Anyway you could go more in depth on different right turn situations and maybe even show some in real time? Thanks, keep up the great videos!

@LincolnRig 2 года назад

Going to or from the Island over here with the float can be a slight challenge.

@txdriverman1804 Год назад

I have my test for my school today. Wish me luck. DPS test Wednesday

@POLYLIVING 2 года назад

Thank Uuuuuu

@danstafford6536 4 месяца назад

All Semi Trailers have posted on the back door this vehicle makes wide turns... California has a 40 ft Kingpin setting for the tandems... that's good in all states.

@213_tom 2 года назад

I've had a 53 foot trailer with a curb sniffer Pete on Statton Island. Only way out, that I could find, was hop a curb with left front tire and let the trailer scrub a light pole on the right

@wayneblue5370 2 года назад

I about to the hood off of a 4 wheeler this morning. They tried to squeeze between the passenger side of my trailer and the curb, I was in the only right hand turn lane at this particular corner. Thankfully I look in my mirrors cotantly.

@davidrigoni8231 2 года назад

Those right turns where you’re turning into their left hand turn lane and/or the brilliant designer threw a curb with light pole in the middle of the road

@jonathanb6911 4 месяца назад

This is why you plan routes... so you don't have to take turns like this in an intersection lol

@jonathanrabbitt 2 года назад

Dave has his window down so he can hear the pedestrians squeal as his tandems roll over their toes.

@danstafford6536 4 месяца назад

. The right hand turn is referred to as a Jug Handle turn... on a narrow Street it's best to make three left hand turns for your right turn... the left hand turn needs to enter a two-lane going into the outside Lane for proper clearance.

@danstafford6536 4 месяца назад

Left hand turns going into a two-lane Street take the outside Lane.

@cudwieser3952 2 года назад

And use all space available.

@88KeysIdaho Год назад

Good reminder to use a "Jug Handle" rather than a "Button Hook" turn. I wish the video could have been "Turned around" (to show it from a driver's perspective), rather than making me look at this turn upside down. lol

@nakinajay Год назад

I was taking a right turn into the DriveTest centre in Thunder Bay during a snowy December day and a car tried getting in my blind side as I was turning. I had the examiner hanging out the window of the Peterbilt screaming a few choice words at them. I stopped in time and the car backed out but I thought “ We’ll, that didn’t take long to see what they were preaching about at school “. Thunder Bay drivers are the worst to begin with but …. LOL.

@danstafford6536 4 месяца назад

Making turns in a semi it takes two lanes of travel... if not you will jump a curb or knock down a telephone pole.

@mitchellferre1652 2 года назад

Hey, where are the cross straps on the front of that flatbed load in the thumbnail pic ? 😅🤣😅😁

@THEKING-tt5rp Год назад

wish there was only one car at my intersections , especially making that right hand turn .

@kingsleysarfo. 2 года назад

making that left arch what if there's cars coming in that lane ?

@lyght3043 2 года назад

Then you wait until it's safe to go.

@nathanbloomer1820 2 года назад

Im a student driver, still learning how to judge most things, but I have a problem of when I'm completing the turn, the tandems are across the yellow line on my driver side. I understand it's better to take too much real estate than not enough, but I'm trying to perfect it to where I don't hit anything on a curb or in the oncoming lane as I complete the turn. Any tips on keeping the trailer on my side and still miss a curb?

@deesplash7087 2 года назад

Bro just take all the room you need and watch yours mirrors

@KDC93 Год назад

Do semis have bluetooth or a AUX jack?

@sherloidbai7064 2 года назад

Remember that tail swing too.

@bkrgls 2 года назад

Especially if you're hauling logs or any freight that extend way past the tail end of the trailer.

@kontrolledkhaos4853 2 года назад

I hope swift is paying attention

@allanj4576 2 года назад

And then throw in an oversize trailer and load into the equation. I always get the "we get super B's in her all the time" statement, from people that know nothing. My trailer is two feet wider than a regular unit and 53' long with the wheels right at the back bumper, pulled by a tridrive tractor.