Trucking Lesson#1 - Controlling Your Trailer and Straight backing 

I am a new truck driver , just got my license at age 50. I did a total career change from floral designer for huge event companies to truck driver . I find really hard with trainers at the school and companies is that everyone teaches you so many way to drive . It’s all confusing at times . I find worth your videos I can reprogram my brain, absorb more information in a clear way. I just kind of lost the intimidation part of driving a 53 footer , so now I can concentrate more on parking . Thank you for the videos .

This channel needs to be on the board in every cdl school in America

I was so unprepared for trucking. The CDL school only taught how to pass the test. Thank you for your channel.

Believe it or not I learned parking from this professor. You wont believe all the people who was more time on the road than me and couldn’t park that i helped. Thanks a million to you sir

I’m from Morocco 🇲🇦 , and i would like tell you that because of you i had learned so much of backing tutorials, thank a lot 👍🏼

The aerial view is the most helpful here. Being able to see the wheel position, truck position. Even though I have a pickup and 18' trailer this is still an excellent tool. All other videos on backing up any trailer is from the point-of-view of driver's seat or someone outside the truck. "turn the wheel" means zero if you cant see which way. Much appreciation! Thanks.

Excellent !!! WAY for teaching...I'm in cdl SCHOOL right now and I'm having a HARD TIME - STRAIGHT BACKING... it seems like this WILL HELP ME HOW TO PHYSICALLY WHICH WAY TO TURN THE WHEEL...YOU EARNED A FAN HERE !!

You Sir are awesome. I've been driving 14yrs and still learning from you!

Your job is incredible! I have been trying to find something like this for hours in Internet. This is exactly what is needed to understand the reversing process. Thanks.

Best educational series of parking, this honestly could be an excellent part of practice for learning drivers.

David, I am constantly coming back to your videos; picking up tidbits I have missed along the way. I have referred your channel to many struggling drivers as the BEST and ONLY videos needed to perfect backing skills. Thank you, as always, for your tireless efforts to teach the trucking community.

TODAY WAS FIRST DAY OF DRIVE TRAINING AND THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY USEFUL BEFORE DRIVING. I Very much hatE WHEN ppl saying “it’s opposite” 🤬, like dude what’s opposite, ❓‼️ YOU explainING exactly what’s parts opposite front cab vs front trailer vs back of trailer is the BEST PART THANK U 👍💯‼️

You do an excellent job my brother!!! I enjoy watching and learning, knowledge is power and spit a lot of knowledge. Thank you!!!!!

Sharing your knowledge and expertise with us is greatly appreciated. Thanks much! 👍🇺🇲

I really thank you for this video. I see this to be true truck driver training. It really is helping me to understand the process of backing without being in the truck.

This is extremely helpful. A great way to visually represent the way the tractor and trailer articulate. Great work on this sim. I recommend it to new drivers often to help them get an understanding of the behavior of the trailer.

Outstanding tutorial. It is clear and to the point.....exactly what I needed, Thank you and God bless you !

I love it, I'm just starting my maneuvers classes and I'll go to watch all videos you have posted. Thanks.

Great video for new drivers! Best videos I’ve seen. They have helped me a lot.

Your videos are fantastic!! I’m a new driver and they have been very helpful! Thank you for the work you put into them!!

Thank you Sir for your untiring contributions to the industry I appreciate it

Very clear. Love the new game and am really looking forward to it. As usual, best backing lessons ever.

Great job and thanks for the tips. Awesome format and can’t wait to play/learn from your game.👏👍

Although you are too young to be a matured instructor,but but you are showing to be be a very well articulate and experienced instructor in your early youth age !!!👏👏👏💚💚💚✊✊✊💯💯💯

YES! I like the new format with the steering and wheel movements combined with how their movements are affecting the tractor and trailer. Excellent. I've been in trucking school for a month or so and one thing I think many new students struggle with is the fact that any direction change one wants to make must first start with straightening the rig by chasing the trailer. It's one of the finer points or details that hasn't been emphasized by my schools' instructors enough and this birds eye view with the new format really helps. Good work.

This was so helpful! I had a few issues backing in a small spot filled with trailers but now you’ve really made me understand how easy my problem is to fix! No one was able to help me but this video! You are AWESOME!! Thanks so much! I plan to continue watching all of your videos over and over again. Very Very Helpful! Everything was perfect with your tutoring!

I love your game , I also love your explanations. This is helping unfog my brain. its not as simple as just remebering steer in the opposite direction you want trailer to go

I’m in school right now they never told me that the problem is if you see to much on the trailer turn towards that way they just said chase the problem and I thought I’d turn towards the side that I didn’t see the trailer that should help me out so much!! Gonna give it a try thank you!

He's Amazing and you can easily see that he perfectly analyzes the entire Mechanism of action with this beast we call " Backing" I just finished my CDL training and I have my test this Tuesday, Oct.20/2020. Backing has always been tricky for me with a trailer. No other vehicles, I'm good lol. I watched all this man's videos and found him to be the very best in teaching backing. Many instructors can spot you and tell you which way to steer and when to move up etc..But Very few can teach so you can wrap your brain around it. MTS does it with such precision and addresses every trick and problem you'll inevitably encounter. Drone footage with various youtube training goes a long way. 2 weeks ago, I got into American truck Driving SIM and it is excellent for understanding the trucks physics and angles during parking/back ups. I use a thrustmaster set and am waiting on Track IR. I think this man's game will be on a different level as you constantly see the lines~ tractor and trailer and you see steer tires and steering wheel. This is key and invaluable in my opinion. I cannot wait to play his game on all levels eventually. Like he said, he has thousands of back ups so at this point it's like brushing your teeth and walking. He knows instinctively what he'll do and where the truck/trailer will and can go. it's like Chess for him . He's courteous enough to feel passionate with conveying all his skills and advanced set-ups so that we can get to better and more tricky back-ups within a shorter period of time

This is brilliant. Teaches me how a truck and trailer move when you turn the steering wheel in reverse. Very helpful for students.

I loved the way you explained how to dock.it was phenomenal.now I want to try it myself,and the 10 speed my goodness I can understand it.

Thank you for the videos and all tbat you do. Just got my cdl in January and your info has helped me greatly. Thank you again.

This is great....thanks! Using your videos to help me understand how to better back up my 38' 5th wheel RV.

It's awesome and very important to new drivers. I love the details. Thanks

Thanks!! The back struggle was real but I've now discovered YOU!! Very understandable. Thanks again will definitely watch your videos!!

I was having a hard time backing. You just made it so much easier and simpler for me!

I found your video on backing to be very helping, especially the broom stick balancing example. Thanks!

You explain it better than my cheap mom & pop truck school instructor.

Your lessons are the best, keep it up, thank you for helping us !!!

YUSSSSS Another fine video to explain in what I deem to be, is the basic fundamental of backing up rigs. No I am not experienced. . . in fact, I just finished a Transport training school, and I did not pass my road test for a few reasons. One of them being I just could not do what many called a simple 90 degree alley backup. Well it's not "simple" to me. David at My Trucking Skills, in my opinion, has given me insight into looking at backing up from a different perspective. Thanks Brother !!! And I fully intend to get around to watching every video you put out to date. :)

謝謝您的分享教學太棒了！還有撰寫軟體練習真的太棒了！我剛剛下載app練習並且配合您的系列教學觀摩,終於看到自己的盲點,我真的認為還是要實際真實開車上路練習才是真的進步！我在台灣已開客運遊覽車六年，但拿到職業連結車駕照沒有實際上路，因為還有工作，只能現在此觀摩練習，不知是否真的有一天會真實執業連結車，甚至到美國加拿大工作，真的非常謝謝您！

I love this !! It's exactly what I've seen training

I really appreciate your video. It helped a lot. I just started my drive training three days ago. It was very depreasing cause no matter how I try it, my trailer just wouldn't go straight. Thanks for your tip. It gets little better today.

really helpful. I like how you explain what you are doing. Keep up the great work.

I like how you explain to back towards the problem which is less confusing than trying to learn to turn opposite direction. 🙏

Im a rookie B1 Driver and this video help me so much, thank you!

Thank you for making me understand this It helps a lot for me specially for my backng skills Keep it on you are helping a lot of new truck drivers like me keep on trucking

Thank you so very much for these videos and game!! Life saver!

Awesome. Great. Very helpful. Thankyou so-so-soooo much.

The details are done very well！ Looking forward to trying the game. Thanks !!

your out here saving lives man ! been studying daily.

Perfect backing no snake twisting good job.

Truly appreciate your job dude, thank you!!

I can't tell you how much this has helped me thank you thank you thank you so much for sharing this information I want to pass my driving test to get my CDL and I know I have to do this to pass it. I have been practicing backing and sometimes have a hard time understanding the maneuvers but watching this has helped me a great deal to understand it thank you so much for this I will continue to watch everything you put on RU-vid

67yrs have my CDL 5 months love all you teaching lessons very helpful

Super excited for this! I'm hoping to be on the road in 2021. This will be very helpful!

Just started backing in CDL Class, this video is helping me.

Short and informative. Thanks a lot👍🤝🤝

Great work, I love it.

the best tutorial ever, you're so helpful

I leaned the backing from your videos thank you so so much

Informative and helpful, thanks!

This is the best tutorial I’ve viewed on utube

Been having no clue on backing up a trailer…thumbs up for this. Good job.

OMG! This is the movement I needed to learn at CDL driving school after PTI.

I really love your videos My Trucking Tkills👍

Awesome! I can SEE the steers!! NOW it's making a TON more sense. I need SETUP scenarios, especially for tight BUZY lots/yards. Just for shiggles, add deep mudpuddles/rises, that might/and do, create lost of traction, intermittently, while a doin' all this. When ya gotta switch on yer interaxles, and there's NO snow, sigh . ..

Thank you very much for this helpful video for backing up a truck.

Thank you, that makes a lot of sense, my CDL instructor was getting a hernia trying to explain it in his own way.

I greatly appreciate your your tutorials

Thank you for this I'm getting ready for training, wish me luck.

You are doing great, to say the very least. Thanks.

I work as a trainer for an LTL and I will definitely be reccomend ing this to my students when it comes out

Great video. Very helpful!

You’re a great teacher!!! Keep it up !! Please

This is the best way to show how to drive. No doubt

Ok that’s good teaching I’m having a lot of trouble backing

I think these are great and definitely making a new truck drivers job easier.

Ur game is great!! It helped me get a real understanding on over stearing. Ty

You’re the best. I can’t thank you enough.

You give life to this app thank you 🙏

Loooooove it , and you are an amazing teacher .

Really good lesson and teaching!!!

This is an awesome app the commentary is great and the teaching is also awesome. I'm gonna study this and i'm gonna drive the truck i'm gonna take my test on the eighth thanks a lot

It's well explained, best ever I seen

Very Helpful, I learned Much with your Lessons Thanks & Keep Doing

Amazing tutorial. Thank you.

It is exciting 👌🏻✌🏾 respect and tha k you for putting your work and time

Great teaching tactics great stuff

Thank you for sharing this information

Great tutorial. I love the format. I'm in school now and I believe this will help me immensely, Thank You

Very helpful with the backing process I feel more comfortable with it and understanding was easy

Man i cant thank you enough for that amazing app i am learning a lot everyday

This is AWESOME!

I’m in CDL school now This is helping me out And street backing is crazy for me But now I will try it your way

Wow I'm impressed, this is the most informative video I seen.

This is awesome you did explain to turn towards the problem to correct the problem:) and I’m gonna get the game also

Brilliant will be checking every update till the game is out. Love everything about your great game idea. Am in Africa hope it will be available here as well please.

I like the new format very much. I found the old format with all the cameras hard to follow. Good job and thank you!

you're good trenching. it's helpful for me.thank you.