how do I back up articulated trailers

[Mudkest]

Normal trailers are easy to back up, but I cant for the life of me figure out how to reverse with an articulated trailer. Does anyone have any pointers on this?

[Pte Jack]

Personally, if it is possible, I'd disconnect one, then park them separately.

[Mudkest]

I'm talkinga bout the trailers that come with the heavy cargo pack. Seeing as those are 1 piece, disconnecting them and parking seperatly is not possible :)

[wolfedg]

By default you should not have to back them up unless you mess up. Hard parking is disabled for heavy cargo in the base game for this very reason.

[65#&ZHWa]

What comes to the newest B-double mods, in youtube there are several videos, where truckers and trucker instructors explain how to reverse a B-train in real life.

Try to search "How to reverse a B-Double". It can be learned just as any driving. Not easy but possible, and very fun :)

One of ATS heavy special trailers is almost impossible to back up in my opinion. The one which has a very short hindmost part.

[C2Dan88]

Reversing them is possible but is not easy once you loose control of it it is hard to prevent the trailer from jack knifing

The way I do it is reverse with very slowly with shallow steering angles and be patient with it. You need LOTS of room to manouver.

[Fury6]

Originally posted by Mudkest:

Normal trailers are easy to back up, but I cant for the life of me figure out how to reverse with an articulated trailer. Does anyone have any pointers on this?

Awwww, c'mon, it's not THAT hard :P - At least not for the single dolly ones:

https://youtu.be/tOT-ZuhWi6E

[morrisonjake05]

In real life you'd disconnect them to reverse.. it is possible to do it and have seen people do it.. but it is a frustrating cituation

[Mudkest]

Originally posted by Fury6:

Awwww, c'mon, it's not THAT hard :P - At least not for the single dolly ones:

wait, there's also trailers that only articulate at the front? only came across the one that articulate front and back, I'll look around for one of these and try with that first, see how it goes.

[Mudkest]

Originally posted by morrisonjake05:

In real life you'd disconnect them to reverse.. it is possible to do it and have seen people do it.. but it is a frustrating cituation

probably a lot easier yes :)

[Fury6]

Originally posted by Mudkest:

Originally posted by Fury6:

Awwww, c'mon, it's not THAT hard :P - At least not for the single dolly ones:

wait, there's also trailers that only articulate at the front? only came across the one that articulate front and back, I'll look around for one of these and try with that first, see how it goes.

Yep, actually out of the 5 or so loads available only two of them are double articulation -
transformer and one of the two motor-crane loads.

[edit]

I did try reversing the double articulated loads once. I got it done but only had to reverse a few dozen yards maybe, and it wasn't pretty.

IRL the spreader/booster dolly at the rear at minimum would have had it's locking pins dropped in if reversing the full combination was unavoidable.

[ColonelKlink1942]

I'm having the same stupid issue. I'm delivering a couple of articulated trailers to Grand Canyon Village, to a construction site that's a section of a road there. The game wants me to back in these trailers, IN A STRAIGHT LINE, into the highlighted area, but I can't do it without the trailers jack-knifing. And because I'm not delivering it to a depot or anything like every other company in the game, I'm not given options on how I want to park it or if I want to even bother with it. So either I spend 2 hours trying to park it, or I say that's enough and blow $30k because I have to abandon the job RIGHT WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE DROPPED OFF.

[Ragequit Inc.]

Originally posted by ColonelKlink1942:

I'm having the same stupid issue. I'm delivering a couple of articulated trailers to Grand Canyon Village, to a construction site that's a section of a road there. The game wants me to back in these trailers, IN A STRAIGHT LINE, into the highlighted area, but I can't do it without the trailers jack-knifing. And because I'm not delivering it to a depot or anything like every other company in the game, I'm not given options on how I want to park it or if I want to even bother with it. So either I spend 2 hours trying to park it, or I say that's enough and blow $30k because I have to abandon the job RIGHT WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE DROPPED OFF.

In Gameplay options, set 'parking difficulty' to 'always ask'.

[Thogmar]

As described, watch some of the YouTube videos and practice. It's rewarding when you learn how, but if you don't do it a lot you get rusty real fast.

[Fury6]

Originally posted by ColonelKlink1942:

I'm having the same stupid issue. I'm delivering a couple of articulated trailers to Grand Canyon Village, to a construction site that's a section of a road there. The game wants me to back in these trailers, IN A STRAIGHT LINE, into the highlighted area, but I can't do it without the trailers jack-knifing. And because I'm not delivering it to a depot or anything like every other company in the game, I'm not given options on how I want to park it or if I want to even bother with it. So either I spend 2 hours trying to park it, or I say that's enough and blow $30k because I have to abandon the job RIGHT WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE DROPPED OFF.

None of this makes sense.

First of all, the game does *not* force you to have to reverse articulated trailers, *ever* - unless *you've* disabled the lockout yourself.

Second ( and maybe this is a bug I just haven't come across yet), I've never come across a prefab that does not offer you a parking choice unless, again, you've disabled this yourself. If this actually *is* a bug, your time would be far better spent checking for and submitting an actual bug report to SCS than complaining about it here. Just sayin'.
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Certainly, the A-coupling type articulated trailers are enormously difficult to reverse for the unpracticed & inexperienced but that's not the game's fault. If you can't do it, then don't choose options that force you into it.

[Verfallen]

Originally posted by Fury6:

Originally posted by ColonelKlink1942:

I'm having the same stupid issue. I'm delivering a couple of articulated trailers to Grand Canyon Village, to a construction site that's a section of a road there. The game wants me to back in these trailers, IN A STRAIGHT LINE, into the highlighted area, but I can't do it without the trailers jack-knifing. And because I'm not delivering it to a depot or anything like every other company in the game, I'm not given options on how I want to park it or if I want to even bother with it. So either I spend 2 hours trying to park it, or I say that's enough and blow $30k because I have to abandon the job RIGHT WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE DROPPED OFF.

None of this makes sense.

First of all, the game does *not* force you to have to reverse articulated trailers, *ever* - unless *you've* disabled the lockout yourself.

Second ( and maybe this is a bug I just haven't come across yet), I've never come across a prefab that does not offer you a parking choice unless, again, you've disabled this yourself. If this actually *is* a bug, your time would be far better spent checking for and submitting an actual bug report to SCS than complaining about it here. Just sayin'.
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Certainly, the A-coupling type articulated trailers are enormously difficult to reverse for the unpracticed & inexperienced but that's not the game's fault. If you can't do it, then don't choose options that force you into it.

Please provide a video of you reversing an A-train (especially RM or Turnpike) in game on a sizable distance, or just making the tail trailer turn and catching it back.

Its simply impossible in ATS right now, as the dolly jack knife nearly right away.

You can back a few yards by being perfectly straight and not touching the steering at all, but the slightest turn will not be controllable if you have a 45 foot trailer in front of the dolly.


Now the heavy cargo loads with only booster and trailer or upcoming Btrain, that I agree with, are perfectly reversable, but they take a lot of room, and you have to plan your reverse, you can't just eyeball them.