How to reverse an A Double road train

[@graemegaerth14]

Good stuff mate and a good vid, take my hat off to you. In my day with doubles (80's) I was lucky doing point to point, drop off hook and come home, now I'm flat out backing my caravan. I was watching the guys in Darwin hooking up Quads, it's an art and takes practice.. Look forward to more..😊

[@daveyork0]

Good on you Mitchell being the first bloke to do this

[@nathanpetric3685]

Good stuff mate, over here in wa. All we have is pocket road trains. B doubles are barely ever used. So u have too be able to reverse them..expecially with tippers, or going to container yards down at freo

[@graceschannel2247]

Good on ya mate for taking the time to do this..I do a fair bit with these A doubles on linehaul, and we don't have to reverse them anywhere, but never is a long day, and with a very short dolly on ours, i always play with it, when i am waiting to load somewhere..As you say, you really have to familiarise yourself with how quickly that dolly moves, before getting to ambitious .Great work mate 👌 K.O.T

[@Wayne-Kerr_Rudy-Zarzoff]

Cheers Cob, now all I need is an A-double

[@mattluszczak8095]

Nice well done!! Thanks for the vid!!

[@nswtrains3153]

Wow! I have seen a bunch of these A double Merc trucks.

[@4x4maximus]

Patrick's make you do this and don't care, they see if a bdouble can do it why can't an a double, mind you in-between to rails for the automatic container combilift....spent ages complaining to management and workshop until I finally spent $570 of my own money on a dolly lock and got workshop to weld it on. Game changer, no more jumping and skipping road ranger kenworth trying to go crawling backwards burning the clutch. Euros autos for the win !!!!

[@84jagdeep]

Thanks for your effort and knowledge sharing mate. i am trying to reverse Adouble, B trailer start going to one side and it becomes nightmare.

[@mitchellbernhardt]

It’s really hard to get the hang of! Lately loaded I’ve been going pretty well. Unloaded though, she can fold up in a blink of an eye. Just time in the seat pulling your hair out for a while unfortunately.

[@Duduupk]

Great video man. Cheers! BTW, any extra advice for shorter-tongue dollys?

[@leof9571]

Thanks for share. are difficult ,from big double up to road train.

[@villainjohnnoel8075]

Hi from France, i'm an Australian who lives and works in France, i drive à petrol tanker.I"ve driven trucks and dogs, even a quad dog during the harvest back in Australia. I've always wondered how you blokes back all those trailers,funny how you make it look so easy,you explained it pretty well.

[@TDAKS267]

Is it the same as reversing a nz btrain where the prime mover turns that's where your ass end trailer will turn...3pivot points

[@glengamble1476]

That's great thanks.

[@edwinihaka9810]

Legend Mate

[@violetscreaming]

Finally I can show these Americans who think they are slick reversing a single or a B Double that this can be done. My husband is a bit of a pro at it after plenty of practice at the port where they’ve got maybe 8” each side leeway to get them in the spot to get containers lifted off.

[@ThePaulv12]

I got severely abused by a forklift driver because I was 400mm too far over from where he told me to back it. I just said, "Too bad. I'm not moving it for 400mm. You can reverse it in if you want." Thing is it was tankers so I wasn't being loaded by the effing forklift anyhow. Where I had to back it had a substantial side angle about 8 degrees to the passenger side and was very poorly lit. There's also a bit of a hump. All the other reversing zones in the whole bloody joint have lasers, are well lit and are flat except for this one spot he wanted me. Damn goose - 400mm... FFS! Being abused by a forkie who couldn't drive a stick up a dog's arse. Way of the world that.

[@violetscreaming]

@@ThePaulv12 my husband reverses in between two lines at the port where he has less than 200mm either side. Also it is a road train with 3 pivot points not 2. Sadly he has to have it in between those lines or they can’t get the container off. I just told him your story and he said he’d have told them to F off lol. Forkies love throwing their weight around

[@nathanpetric3685]

Where is this triple roadtrain with containers on running to port?​@@violetscreaming

[@violetscreaming]

@@nathanpetric3685 they run them in and out of the port of Brisbane in Australia. They can carry up to 3 containers and the truck has a dolly between the A and B trailer, so whilst it appears to be a B double it’s classified as a road train due to the 3 pivot points and possibly the extended length.

[@nathanpetric3685]

@violetscreaming that's two pivot points