SLH LCV Road train Back up 1 shot 400ft

Rick Bradley for SLH Transport from Toronto back up LCV A-train ( 2 X 53 ft ) in Kingston yard beside another SLH road train in 1 shot ( about 400 ft ) go check my new video 2 years later with more practice
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[@elizabethmelkert4672]

Well Son, he can back up 2 trailers better than i can back up one

[@slimchancetoo]

Breathtaking !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought I was good being able to hook up the third trailer -- but this guy is UNBELIEVABLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He can get a job in the wide open spaces of the Land Downunder anytime he wants. !!!

[@mofosamo]

You realise how good this is when you see how short the dolly is.

[@bravozulu51]

Triple articulation is an artform to me...I have to say I can deal with B Doubles but this would take some serious practice..and like any multi combination, slowly slowly is the key to it... class act brother...

[@lovekenworthpeterbilt552]

And not one damn PULL UP?...This is what's called A BOSS....

[@kyledombrowski7051]

He would have my respect with a few pull ups

[@dkwoodsy2082]

Not sure why this just came up on my feed, but nicely done sir! I only pulled double 28s- all single axle including the tractor, and I couldn’t do it no matter how much I practiced. I always heard about a fellow driver from a different yard that could not only back up the set, he could put the kite into a dock door- and straight- in one shot. I never saw it tho…

[@davidmarkersnr.1888]

Nice one Rick. I used to back up A-doubles in Oz in the 60s but drew the line at triples. The main thing is to watch the dolly and keep it and the dog straight. But, we had 40 footers, and as every artic/semi drivers knows, longer is easier, and no power steering (Mack B61). Taking nothing away from you though mate, nice job, slow and easy. ;-)

[@1965Gindy]

Love 40 ft van trailers with axles right towards the back with 20" daytons

[@alliuk6320]

I would have called BULLSHIT if I never seen that .NICE BACK UP !

[@daveb635]

al liuk when I took the course to pull them the first thing they tell you is that anyone that says they can back them up is full of shit that it is physically impossible to back them up more that ten feet. I tip my hat to the driver. Well done sir. 👏

[@obscureluzername]

Man, I had to try and reverse a dolly using a 28 foot trailer once and I couldn't do it. I was trying to hook up the second trailer this way because there was too much snow on the ground to roll the dolly by hand but no dice. I am impressed!

[@brett624]

Impressive..I haul B-trains and gotta tell yeah backin A-trains is hard enuff..soo hats off to the driver..

[@bigbear5510]

Great job there driver.👍👍🏆 I seen this done in a drop lot in upstate New York about 19 years ago & it just blew my mind. I had been driving OTR for a few months. They told us in driving school that this could not be done, I told them just because they couldn't do it didn't make it impossible. When I went back to visit the school, boy did I have a story to tell them! Stay safe & healthy out there. Spoke to ya later, Ka moan.😎

[@julier1080]

Lot of steering going on! I'm amazed he kept it straight at all. I guess whatever works, but that would drive me crazy to be constantly correcting that much.

[@TastyGlue]

It's quite easy once you get the hang of it. I've done it with a Massey Ferguson 1540 tractor and 2 tandum dump trailers. Smaller scale, but same principle. Once you get used to manipulating the rear trailer with the front trailer it's a piece of cake, not impossible at all :)

[@quintinmarsters1609]

Great backing up skills from New Zealand and Australia

[@bh2861]

It's one or the other mate? I take it you're a kiwi living in Australia?

[@finelaffen]

Of course you can reverse two trailers. And of yourse you can control the direction of the dog trailer (I assume by that you mean the rearmost trailer). But it takes utmost precision, and you definitely need to know what you are doing.

[@MrMarkpark]

Pretty amazing. When you think how much manipulation has to happen at the tractor to get a single trailer backed up. Then to steer the dolly of another trailer with a trailer. it makes my brain hurt a little. I could have tried that 417 times and still not gotten there. You'd think just going straight back would be easy, you'd be wrong.

[@juliangallego7963]

I do it all of the time... In my dreams

[@mostlyinterested1016]

The worst back-up to me is a single-axle tractor with two 28-foot pup trailers. The secret is "keep it as straight as you can". Easier said than done. LOL

[@pilotmanpaul]

What in the sweet baby Jesus, my brain was doing backflips and jumping jacks the entire time I see that Dolly reversing.

[@asif555b]

he makes it look soo easy! amazing!

[@truckerj62]

this is impressive, i pull b-trains, and didn't think a-trains were backable. wow!

[@mickbaker2483]

respect man; that was great to watch you back that up.

[@yawningbeagle]

Maybe he has balls, but primarily he has skills !

[@jdtractor2720]

Good job backing up your A train.Yes it can be done with out a pin lock.Keep up the nice work Rick. From another professional Michel

[@r470.4]

Big up driver, these is fantastic.

[@OHSOOOFLY]

Not bad driver, you impress me! I cant back a pike for crap, but I worked with a guy who would dock his tail box in between two trailers in the dark every night. It was impressive to see. He had a trick though, he would chain the convertor to the lead box bumper so it cant pivot when he got into the yard, essentially making an A train into a B pike for the back up. He showed me his trick with a 10ft legnth of chain, and now I can do it too and look like a hotshot

[@finelaffen]

I believe I see movement in the dolly. Great manouvering!

[@CroZagreb1]

Greatings from down under it take a while to learn how to back up a B double, my complaments to this driver. We run up too 67 tonne in the suburbs. The B-Double fuel tankers are deadly to drive and fun as well. Greetings

[@moffsta27]

This boy has some skills

[@adamt6434]

if you have a longer draw bar on the dolly converter you can really have greater movements cornering and backing them we use three trailers with two dolly converters with longer draw bars works well just a little longer in length over all , but great work and experience backing that combo too .

[@josemanuelmunoz1555]

of course . the drivers from slh are the best in northamerica . good job man .

[@jctruck143]

beautiful maneuver my friend.

[@maidenrulz73]

This is simple to do......I back my utility trailer behind my Honda accord all the time.....I had it to the dump today and everyone was amazed how I put that 6 ft trailer wherever I wanted .....my cats breath smells like cat food!

[@Rumeel12708]

Dam this is amazing!!! I am currently practicing reversing double pup trailers, but I do want to see how pike doubles feels like!!!! We do have zzz trailers(that's what we call 46' that have the daisy chain lines like short pups)

[@letterpool]

good job driver, I have yet to master the whole backing up without bitching the converter thing.. I'm just thankfull to be able to put a set together in a half hour. I remember when I first started... omg almost an hour sometimes more!!

[@goofyexponent]

turnpike doubles are MASSIVE. We just started seeing them in Nova Scotia last summer.

[@grantbrush1189]

Where this gets really hard is when you hooked the lcv to a tow truck and try and back it up. Even B trains with truck is a pain when hooked to tow truck. Fine job done here.

[@ryankanno2562]

Mind blown!!! Amazing!!!

[@wayneanderson9463]

It is a real art to backing 2 trailers. They are long, so response to turning is slow. I pulled 2 37ft belly dumps with total weight at 129000 lbs legal in Las Vegas, Nv. I could only manage to back up the length of the set up, 110 ft.

[@pasafist]

nicely done driver! your hired!

[@22timingram]

Fair play to the driver. I'm usually flailing around the wheel like a dervish, just reversing one 45 foot trailer!

[@carlosnavarro921]

that's the doubles combination they use in Mexico but in Mexico is two 48 foot trailers and the dolly is hooked up a lot closer to the lead trailer or the dollies compose a "C" train

[@MrGariepy]

i am a lcv driver for Meyers transport to and i never think one day that i see some driver back it up,see you at kingston,i swiches there at aroud 22 30 at night weeky,,Yvon,truck 124

[@casualtrucker]

Great job!!

[@LILMONDUNEE]

GREAT JOB DRIVER! VERY NICE.

[@dirtyolcanyanero]

Double a? Come on! B-trains are hard enough. That's some great control!!!

[@justkiddin08]

Good job!

[@trucksmuguler]

they are many talented truckers who know this art of backing parkin road trains

[@threetwentynine]

And that's how we do it in Canada

[@redbluesome2829]

Pay one driver to perform the job of two? I guess.

[@MaraDaCoriovallum]

Most of the European drivers can't do that only with one trailer.... ....respect....😁👌

[@davehertle]

I would think that besides keeping the rear trailer in check, the next most difficult and constant effort would be continual correction on the short wheelbase dolly on the 2nd trailer. So watch the trend of the rear of the second trailer and constantly adapt to the dolly. Everything else should follow.

[@plumbingstuffinoregon2471]

A Canadian road train. Usually when I hear the term road train, I think of Australia.

[@KandiKlover]

yeah only 2 trailers. not truly a road train.

[@thermidorlevrai65]

@@KandiKlover but its fucking long when you see it

[@GaryCameron780]

I live in Alberta. Here the word "train" is usually only used in context of A train or B train. Never road train. Road trains is an Aussie term.

[@sloath1]

Gary Cameron kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZS0gIeIZ7CinNE

[@itsallovernow2929]

@@GaryCameron780 Exactly. This is an A train in Canada. As far as I know Manitoulin is the only company to run LCVs as a B train set up. What's even funnier is in Saskatchewan, there are companies running 3 of these.

[@TheRooSkittler]

If you read the discretion its in Toronto...... Which is Canada!

[@DodgeTruckDriver]

Hell might take 10 min but what a pro...

[@literbikedoc]

Given a very short A frame on the dolly - very nice job indeed.

[@dirtyolcanyanero]

I get co-workers tellin me ya can't back up a-trains "its impossible". Then I show em this video!

[@baljitsingh-yf8iy]

skellywag rock it’s easy mate like b train it’s nt road trains

[@drum283]

Fantastik backing!

[@martinvollrad6173]

The US trucks are mega crazy and i am amazed at the US trucks and their drivers

[@itsallovernow2929]

This is Canada, not the US. This company is no longer in business as they were bought out shortly after Sears closed for good up here. The company name (SLH) stands for Sears Line Haul. Although Sears was their main source, they had alot of regular freight as well. I know as I worked out of the Toronto location, the same terminal as the driver backing this set up. I did not know him as I was night shift but I did know all the night drivers doing this.

[@artyz2002]

Great Job . Easy with a short wheel based prime mover

[@thermidorlevrai65]

in canada there is somebody who do it with a long wheelbase

[@wiscoondog02]

well played sir!

[@ak47360full]

that was awesome

[@lenniecapuano521]

wow thats amazing

[@4x4Tinny]

I was gunna say what a great effort until you mentioned there was a pin lock in the dolly. Damn deflating. Always hard with a short dolly arm.

[@adamwasherev2424]

my uncle backs up triple roadtrains in a place called mt isa in queensland and all he has to do is make sure the truck and trailers are straight then he just lets go of the steering wheel and lets it roll back just like that. truck he uses kenwroth k200 30 inch sleeper and now does cattle road trains and he makes it look so easy

[@PokerDav3]

Impressive... now I want to see him do it a running speed

[@mohammadrabbani4590]

That’s the SLH yard over in Kingston,Ontario we used to do our LCV switches there too

[@itsallovernow2929]

I use to run for SLH out of Vaughan and often went to Kingston. To bad they were bought out and no longer around.

[@mohammadrabbani4590]

@@itsallovernow2929 yea bro CAT bought them out but the drivers were offered the chance to move over to CAT so I guess that’s the only good thing to come to come out of that

[@itsallovernow2929]

@@mohammadrabbani4590 I was talking to a broker that went over to CAT from SLH and he was not happy. The pay is much lower, he use to run out West as a team but they took that away from the brokers, etc. Very few drivers actually went to CAT as they don't have many day cab positions and no LCV switches or shuntting like we had in Vaughan (which later they moved to Shawson before being bought out).

[@mohammadrabbani4590]

@@itsallovernow2929 oh snap didn’t know all of that Must have been rough for them I hope they found better jobs. My friends still run LCVs out to Kingston but now they just have a different switch spot like 2 mins from the old SLH spot

[@mohammadrabbani4590]

@@itsallovernow2929 who are u driving for now ?

[@memyself1176]

why do people hate on this???? i bet you can’t do it!!!

[@0aullwheatcrift42]

These guys work damn hard to keep there pride and joys on the road motorist pedestrians bicycle need to stay the fuck away from us

[@baldymp3]

@aussiefirie yeah we run longer total combinations but are restricted to a total maximum length in a conventional setup of 53.5 m (176 ft).

[@baldymp3]

@TheBatMonkey i know that, ive only run b doubles but have run through r/t areas so i know what we got. just when you said we have roadtrains here that are 5 times longer? the truck in the video is pulling 2 52 ft trailers plus the dolly plus the truck. pretty sure we dont run anything conventional thats 5 times that length.

[@sabisingh9049]

well done good driver

[@Supe063]

Respect!

[@truckerray7533]

Good job, driver

[@kevinrichards3288]

I've seen semis pull 2 of the shorter box trailers but 2 of the 53ft long ones? Wow, that's gotta be hard to make it around turns.

[@SuperTrucker2019]

Now THAT'S what I call driving skill! I'm in CDL school now---and DAMN! Backing just one of those 53' monsters is tough enough! But practice makes perfect, so they say.

[@habsnum1]

we call that a real driver :)

[@jasongoldsmith6199]

Yes in Australia it is

[@gb74wa]

LIKE A GLOOOOVE !!!!

[@gurshindersingh6732]

good job

[@andijudasembiringpelawi66]

Good job bos

[@bubblenhalf]

using the Volvo day cap might be what helped him to do it. very soon he will need a new steering front tires

[@mokiburvlog1220]

Slh transport INC company i already apply but this is true good company

[@itsallovernow2929]

Was. They were bought out by CAT shortly after Sears closed.

[@jlopezflores602]

excelent!!!!!!!!!

[@MustangDesudiroz]

Holy freaking cheese cake guacamole backing a double a One thing learned from this vid.. Do. It very slowly while making them turns.. Works perfectly. I play American truck simulator

[@stocksmeadow]

Nice job, it is actually easier with a 2 axle dolly, but you really need to know what you are doing. I've seen guys who can hit a dock in one shot, I used to need a couple or so tries.

[@johna6968]

Respect...

[@trucksmuguler]

good job it's easy when you dont have to do it in traffic right i mean i have to to do it when i go to the line lot you need to back the turn pikes with in comming traffic but that good when you dont have any pressure ha great job

[@antietam1958]

How long this this driver been driving? Good job in anyone's book

[@5roaddog]

you got my credit, now if only we could send all our professional rookies from the states over to do that, the video would be 4 days and 18 hours, but they might finally realize how to fuckin back up with out running over someone elses truck or trailer

[@bigeleonard]

Yea, that guy is good

[@juliogonzo2718]

This would give the Brampton guys a hard time I'm thinking. Some of them have a hard time going forward with a single trailer.

[@itsallovernow2929]

Thank you.

[@petersab8771]

It looks like the dolly is locked in the straight position once he gets to where he wants to back. That helps a lot.

[@sirwrenchalot7790]

Peter Sab If you ever pulled an A-train in Canada you would know the dollys are free to pivot on the pintle at all times- there is no way to lock them in any particular position. He did a great job backing it up- most drivers ( myself included) avoid backing them unless it is absolutely necessary.

[@aussiefirie]

@baldymp3 We have them bigger than that in Australia. Seen tripples in QLD and a mate has seen 8 trailer trains.

[@GizzyTruckn]

I got to try this

[@MrMackwest]

respect .

[@jjgr661]

Amazing you look like Professional Mexican Driver, SLH Western region Rules! by the way(you didn't blow the horn b4 Backing Up)

[@killer2600]

Good job but need to get it tighter pull up and do it again :D

[@DHPhotographie]

Rick is from Toronto, Canada

[@trucksmuguler]

good a couple of 53s take longer to turn that gives you time toset in time the converter dolly i hope to do that job with the couple 40ft containers that i drive we call it full in mexico and I have a litle expierence with the doubles id just got started.To get a job here you have to know how toreverse with the doubles i think they give you 5 minutes or so to set one trailer in the loading dock and next the other one without uncopling fifth wheels we haul doubletankers,flat beds,dry van.refer

[@AlexELDERY]

I DRIVE 4 SLH!!!

[@davidfrobel7582]

good job,,,,10;4...