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Ford, has a better idea! Pro Trailer Backup Assist.
1 posted on 04/09/2021 3:27:28 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Was it a delivery to hell?


2 posted on 04/09/2021 3:30:08 PM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

A Tesla could do it with autopilot. Might take about 90 minutes though...


4 posted on 04/09/2021 3:33:14 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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I saw my dad back a set of doubles around a corner, right up to the dock. No more than 5 minutes.

I was in the truck when he did it.

He logged over 3 million official miles with the Teamsters. Probably drove over 4 million.

Knew every knot there was, some sailors never heard of.


5 posted on 04/09/2021 3:44:39 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Sorry, but that’s nothing. There are much worse underground docks than that. The hardest part was probably jacking it around and onto the ramp from the street and they didn’t even show that part.


7 posted on 04/09/2021 3:51:18 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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Sorry ... not THAT impressed.

Straight shots are not THAT difficult

I remember making a serpentine into a plant in Reading that had a couple of turns that ... once you got it ... you felt tall in the saddle accomplishing it.

The learning curve is bullet sweating

8 posted on 04/09/2021 3:54:49 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true !)
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Human verses Robot obstacle rally race. Game show of the present...


10 posted on 04/09/2021 5:27:26 PM PDT by Doctor DNA (Fine words butter no parsnips)
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I used to make deliveries to a building with a similar dock. The biggest difference was that the street had a grade (it was Seattle after all!) so you had to transition not only 90 degrees off the street but about 5 degrees downslope.

There was also a gradual turn to the ramp - not straight down. I was lucky - I only needed to maneuver a 24’ hoopie. I felt sorry for the semi drivers!


15 posted on 04/09/2021 7:14:59 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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