11-16-2013, 11:24 PM
The trucks are going in reverse because it is far easier to stay a straight course using the truck's mirrors.
While this doesn't diminish my appreciation for JCVD's clanging, it's very cool to this from somebody who know's exactly what they're talking about.
And it does help explain something I once saw. A 53' tractor-trailer was running late to pick-up a load and came into a "rolling" parking lot (as in the old drive-in movies) at a very brisk pace, made a left turn to get perpendicular with the dock, then backed up making a left turn to the dock ending up with a wall on his right just a few inches from the trailer, perfectly parallel.
This sounds like a piece o' cake and maybe it is for a decent driver, But even the backing was done very quickly, in just two moments that looked like one. Seriously, if he had been off just a bit, there would have been some serious damage. This impressed me much more than Hollywood endos.
Much smaller scale and now is the second coolest thing I've seen done with big-rigs.
While this doesn't diminish my appreciation for JCVD's clanging, it's very cool to this from somebody who know's exactly what they're talking about.
And it does help explain something I once saw. A 53' tractor-trailer was running late to pick-up a load and came into a "rolling" parking lot (as in the old drive-in movies) at a very brisk pace, made a left turn to get perpendicular with the dock, then backed up making a left turn to the dock ending up with a wall on his right just a few inches from the trailer, perfectly parallel.
This sounds like a piece o' cake and maybe it is for a decent driver, But even the backing was done very quickly, in just two moments that looked like one. Seriously, if he had been off just a bit, there would have been some serious damage. This impressed me much more than Hollywood endos.
Much smaller scale and now is the second coolest thing I've seen done with big-rigs.