DOUBLE TRAILERS with DOLLY -> REVERSING possible?

[KingJ]

Hi i try to reverse double trailers with dolly sometimes for advanced parking spots but i never get it right. Is it possible? Someone got a TUTORIAL Video? I can drive normal dolly trailers like we use it in europe but i never find the sweet spot for reversing AMERICAN Doubletrailers with dolly on the second trailer because if you try to correct steer the first semi trailer to steer the dolly you dont have enough room and feel to get it right and it collapses. The only thing i can do is reversing it in a stright line for some meters.

[Gazer75]

They are pretty much impossible to reverse. A dolly alone behind a rigid is easy enough, but when you add another pivot point its a completely different thing.

[room217au]

I'm really hoping that the next (or near next) game update involves splitting double trailers, where you can drop off one trailer at company A and the other one at company B.

[Reese]

Possible? Yes. There's a reason UPS and FedEx only run the shortest daycabs on them. They reverse these trailers daily. And during the winter season, they got to reverse them up quick or they'll fall behind schedule and possibly get fired.

I've only reversed the in-game doubles once and it took me over an hour to get them into the spot. I've reversed the heavy cargo with a stinger at the end multiple times though. That one ain't too bad thanks to the front dolly.

[Polarlicht]

with 2 pivot points possible, though, not with 3!

[KingJ]

i mean this kind of trailer combination:

http://atsmods.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ATS-Double-Trailer.jpg

the second trailer got a dolly.

[Polarlicht]

KingJ님이 먼저 게시:

Otherwise i do not believe it :)

so what? just try it!

[KingJ]

i was editing my post, please read it again and watch the image maybe you mean a different kind of trailer combination.

A Long time ago i found this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9cH_8nkhM0&t=321s

so in reality its possible but if i try to copy the driving technique from the video into ATS its not working the dolly is always too fast steering in and too sensetive i tried it a lot of times very slowly.

[Gazer75]

There are a few vids on Youtube of people backing up doubles. I'm sure it can be done, but the yards in game are usually to small to manouver them properly.
Then there is the time scale in game. Fiddling around with backing one up could easily take a while and then hours would pass by in game.

[Polarlicht]

double trailers have already 3 pivot points

[DumpsterFire]

Tbh IRL, the amount of time the average driver would spend messing around trying to back a double like that up you'd be better off splitting them

[agga.agostini]

It’s obviously one reason that makes me think the developers aren’t long haul drivers and forgot that the dolly system on those trailers have a turntable lock pin on them for reversing I should know being a gear jammer and owning truck and dog setups as well as driving b-doubles and semis for nearly 20 years weather they didn’t do homework neglected to ask pro’s or just forgot it is possible with one dolly set but more than that absolutely impossible and when you’re getting around $9,000 for job completion and $12.000 penalty cause of not being able to reverse isn’t fair as to updating I doubt it but we can wish as after all it’s supposed to be a simulator

[Elwenil]

In the real world drivers do not back up doubles or triples in regular service. They are typically taken to a yard and broken down. Some companies require their drivers to break down their own doubles and park them, others just require the driver to unhook from them and another employee will break them down and park them while the original driver picks up another set and hits the road again. "B-trains" and other similar setups where the rear trailer is attached to the trailer in front without a dolly are a different deal altogether.

The game sort of messes up the whole doubles/triples thing anyway as most (if not all) states have laws regarding how far from a major highway or Interstate that multiple trailers can be driven due to the issues about backing them up. The trucking companies that use them will usually have a yard just off the highway and will break down the doubles and have other drivers run deliveries into the city with individual pup trailers. In this game, you can pretty much take a set of doubles anywhere in the game, which is technically not correct. So in the real world, there isn't much need to back a set of doubles, though some drivers have gotten good at it and like to show off a bit. When I was in training for my CDL, it was a game for us students to try and see how far we could back up before the dolly jacked. We tried all sorts of things, backing downhill, playing with the trailer brakes, etc and none of us could ever back up the complete truck and trailer length, though one of the instructors could.

[AimlessArrow]

"Is it possible?"

No. You have too small place to manuever in the yards, also the joinings seems to be oversensitive. It stands for the heavy trailers too, as far as I observed.
If it is possible somehow, the small amount of XP you earn for it, doesnt worth the frustration anyway.

[Red River]

this is one of the few rare cases when a game sim is harder than RL

[PvtStash]

I drive them. We back them up. End.