I don't know how to move backward... ㅠㅠ

[pachouli]

everytime I move back, my truck crushes... is there any tips?

[~IsR~Dave2]

hit the #3 key, this will give you an overhead view, then practice reversing

[pachouli]

I already use top view... but when I move back, truck and trailer moves different way so crashes.. ㅠㅠ I will try again! thanks!

[SchroeNeeko-UK]

When reversing with a load switch your steering, so left becomes right and right becomes left.

[Recuva]

It's impossiple

[Internet_Hero]

I've been reversing in my cargo on the inside view and my god... MY GOD. Takes me longer to park up than it does to get there.

[MichaelF]

do it slowly

[Dre]

pro tip: stick your head out the truck window (look backwards), whichever way you steer is the direction your cargo will go.

[pachouli]

oh goot tip! thanks! I will try it!

[TwinShadow]

Originally posted by Dre:

pro tip: stick your head out the truck window (look backwards), whichever way you steer is the direction your cargo will go.

Wouldn't the opposite be true, since these are single trailers? That would be true in a double trailer setting though.

[Thunderball95 [PT]]

Originally posted by Masami Fushino:

Originally posted by Dre:

pro tip: stick your head out the truck window (look backwards), whichever way you steer is the direction your cargo will go.

Wouldn't the opposite be true, since these are single trailers? That would be true in a double trailer setting though.

No because you're not using the mirrors... it's not a "mirrored view"

[MichaelF]

that's not how trailers work. to turn the trailer to the left you have to turn the truck to the right. it doesn't matter if you look in the mirror or stick your head out of the window

[Dre]

Originally posted by michaelfase:

that's not how trailers work. to turn the trailer to the left you have to turn the truck to the right. it doesn't matter if you look in the mirror or stick your head out of the window

just try it and watch the miracle happen :-)

[Thogmar]

Originally posted by michaelfase:

that's not how trailers work. to turn the trailer to the left you have to turn the truck to the right. it doesn't matter if you look in the mirror or stick your head out of the window

Yes is does work that way, think of how a mirror works (flips your image to the opposite of a direct view)

Basically, when looking backwards out the window, you can "steer the rear" and imagine it to work just like driving forward. Think of the trailer's doors as the "front of your vehicle" and just steer the wheel left to turn it left, and steer right to turn it right (directly relative to the direction you are looking). It's the easiest way by far, you just have to deal with learning the angles and turning circle issues.

When looking in the mirror (flipped view), I imagine making the rear of the trailer go either right or left in relation the normal right and left of my vehicle. So you turn the wheel right to make the back of the trailer go to your "right side" and steer left to make it turn toward your "left side".

Try it and see.

[Nono54Fr]

The whole " left for left and right for right " is true until a certain point (angle to be precise). The truck and the trailer are connected through the fifth wheel, which is a pivot.

When truck & trailer are aligned or below ~20° (the pivot thing), the trailer will follow the intents of the truck; above that ~20°, the trailer will stop reversing, the truck will twist around the pivot of the fifth wheel and then steering the truck to the right (left) will push the trailer to the left (right), until jackknifed (ie : wrong event / ~ same consequences >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackknifing)

[Thogmar]

Originally posted by Nono54Fr:

The whole " left for left and right for right " is true until a certain point (angle to be precise). The truck and the trailer are connected through the fifth wheel, which is a pivot.

When truck & trailer are aligned or below ~20° (the pivot thing), the trailer will follow the intents of the truck; above that ~20°, the trailer will stop reversing, the truck will twist around the pivot of the fifth wheel and then steering the truck to the right (left) will push the trailer to the left (right), until jackknifed (ie : wrong event / ~ same consequences >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackknifing)

Yeah at extreme angles the relationship gets weird, but I'm never backing at nearly that tight an angle.

In fact I find that I cannot use as tight an angle as in real life, because in the game, the trailer wheels skid unrealistically and the fifth wheel "locks" into a permanently angled position somewhere around 80 degrees. This means that I can't even try to park as realistically as actual trucks do, but must use shallower approaches because the ETS2 trailers don't seem to apply their weight realistically to their wheels.