Reverse your double trailers... Unlocked.

[FORNIK8TOR666]

If you want more of a challenge parking these trailers:
go to Documents/American Truck Simulator/Profiles/config.cfg
then edit: uset g_simple_parking_doubles "1"
to.......... uset g_simple_parking_doubles "0"
You will then have the option of some very difficult drop offs.
Good luck....

[FORNIK8TOR666]

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[SeñorKungPowFurBurgerLicker]

dunno how others got double trailers but there has been noupdate for em

[wolfedg]

Mods. I'm surprised the mod makers didnt just wait for the official update in a few weeks. But I guess its really in demand.

As far as the need to back up doubles goes, I wonder if it is really all that common in real life. I suspect they would leave it to the yard crew to break the trailers up and put them on their own loading docks, especially considering they would have to be broken up anyway to load/unload.

[SeñorKungPowFurBurgerLicker]

ah ok was a bit confused

[FORNIK8TOR666]

Originally posted by wolfedg:

Mods. I'm surprised the mod makers didnt just wait for the official update in a few weeks. But I guess its really in demand.

As far as the need to back up doubles goes, I wonder if it is really all that common in real life. I suspect they would leave it to the yard crew to break the trailers up and put them on their own loading docks, especially considering they would have to be broken up anyway to load/unload.

I work at a major brewery in Australia, there is no yard crew and no room to drop your B trailer... You need to be able to reverse these suckers down a narrow lane from a 90 degree T intersection for side loading by forlift drivers.
I see this being done every day.

[Gambler]

Originally posted by wolfedg:

Mods. I'm surprised the mod makers didnt just wait for the official update in a few weeks. But I guess its really in demand.

As far as the need to back up doubles goes, I wonder if it is really all that common in real life. I suspect they would leave it to the yard crew to break the trailers up and put them on their own loading docks, especially considering they would have to be broken up anyway to load/unload.

Doubles are hard to back up, like to a dock between two trailers in real world. The company I worked for out of Fontana Ca., we had only one driver who could put a set of doubles up to the dock, and he did it twice a night,six days a week. He would turn San Diego two times each night, so he would have a lot of practice. Thats why In truck stops most of the time you will see doubles parked on the end of the parking rows or at the end of the fuel islands so they wont have to back up. I had a rookie co driver who parked between two trucks at a TA and he could not get out without backing up a little. I was in the bunk,woke up and we had to break the set apart to get out of there.

[FORNIK8TOR666]

That's interesting because in Australia you can't actually get a licence to drive doubles unless you can show that you can back em up.
Check this out.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynypBJvlGRU
All in a days work!

[FknDanny]

i tryed this and not working for me. changed it twice. any ideas

[room217au]

Originally posted by FORNIK8TOR666:

That's interesting because in Australia you can't actually get a licence to drive doubles unless you can show that you can back em up.

You can't actually get an MC licence unless you show you have employment that requires you to have one. All you need to apply for a HC licence is to hold a HR for 2 years.
Interestingly enough, if you have a HR licence and have held it for, I think, 10 years, and you know someone who wants to upgrade from MR to HR, you can sign their "Book of Competency" which all but takes care of the practical test. That's scary.

Originally posted by harley1380:

Thanks for the video. He is good. If it was me I would turn it into a pretzel. In California in 1982 you just had to pass the written test for doubles.The driving test was with a single trailer. Dont no how it is now. Even though triples are not allowed in California, they put a T on the CDL instead of a D. In the 80s the CHP escorted a Roadway set of 28 foot triples down the Grapevine in I guess was a experiment, but nothing came of it.

It should be noted here that Australian b-double and b-triple trailers are a different design than what doubles are in the USA. American doubles use a drawbar on a twin-axle set to connect trailers. Having a pivot point on the axle set AND a pivot point where the drawbar connects makes for VERY difficult reversing. This is because the distance between the two pivot points between the trailers is very short and thereby very easily and quickly crossed up.
B-doubles, having a turntable (fifth wheel) under the front of the A trailer and another turntable under the front of the B trailer, in addition to both axle sets being rigid, makes for easier reversing in a given situation. B-triples are the same except having a third trailer, connected the same way.
Road trains are a "normal" semi trailer with a 40ft "pup" trailer behind. These are very common and also require an MC (Multiple Combination) licence because you can easily - and commonly - attach more trailers behind the second one. Fuel trucks traversing the interior of Australia commonly drag up to 5 trailers at once.
B-doubles and B-triples are essentially road trains, but a road train isn't necessarily a b-double or b-triple.
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B-doubles drive through cities and towns all over Australia. B-triples and mulitple-trailer road trains are not allowed within 300km of the eastern coast. The Dubbo 'Hub" in NSW is where triples and larger road trains must 'disassemble' trailer sets in what we call "Assembly Yards" outside of Dubbo and likewise cities and deliver trailers that way, one or two at a time. But the driver does this on his/her own.
Skilled drivers are a treat to watch doing this.

[Robinicus]

Originally posted by FknDanny:

i tryed this and not working for me. changed it twice. any ideas

You have to cahnge it in the config file in your profile folder, not in the main config file

[TwinShadow]

B-Doubles are easier to back up than our doubles used in the US. Now, I can back-up the two-joint heavy trailer no problem that's used in the game. Just take it nice and slow and normally shouldn't have an issue. Basically, the idea behind backing up a b-double or a two-pivot trailer is you turn the truck in the direction you want the rear-most trailer to go, then you correct yourself in a way as you're backing up to where you want it to go essentially.

[room217au]

Originally posted by Kitsu 狐:

B-Doubles are easier to back up than our doubles used in the US. Now, I can back-up the two-joint heavy trailer no problem that's used in the game. Just take it nice and slow and normally shouldn't have an issue. Basically, the idea behind backing up a b-double or a two-pivot trailer is you turn the truck in the direction you want the rear-most trailer to go, then you correct yourself in a way as you're backing up to where you want it to go essentially.

Three operative words: nice and slow :)
The way it was explained to me many years ago was use the A trailer to steer the B trailer. Think of the A trailer as the back of your truck, then you only need think of the movement of one trailer :)
But abso-tive-ly slooooow and steady wins the race :)

[Holden]

Originally posted by FORNIK8TOR666:

That's interesting because in Australia you can't actually get a licence to drive doubles unless you can show that you can back em up.
Check this out.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynypBJvlGRU
All in a days work!

It looks like those doubles don't have a dolly between the trailers? Here in the US every doubles set I've seen has a dolly between them which is why they are nearly impossible to back up.

[room217au]

Originally posted by The Kerminator:

It looks like those doubles don't have a dolly between the trailers? Here in the US every doubles set I've seen has a dolly between them which is why they are nearly impossible to back up.

No, they have a tri-axle with a fifth wheel. More stable and can take more weight.

[TwinShadow]

Yep. Those combinations, though not used here in the states, are used in most other places in the world, such as Canada, Australia, and parts of Europe.

Our trucking industry is a bit different in that freight companies like FedEx and UPS use double pups to take to their various hubs. This allows them to drop off one trailer, let an hard worker handle it, so the truck driver can continue on to their next point.

It works for us anyway.