topic Re: Reversing a drawbar truck in Vehicle Tracking Forum

Reversing a drawbar truck

imran.hamblinNZK78 — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 12:35:17 GMT

Hi everyone

Has anyone successfully reversed a drawbar truck (or similar)?

I'm trying to reverse this vehicle below

into these dock leveler bays. I'm using the red dashed lines as my guide

I usually use the 'pick alignment' tool to give a nice clean sweep into the bay, but for this type of vehicle that dosent work

Any tips or advice on how I can get this to work? I'm using Autocad 2020

Re: Reversing a drawbar truck

ecfernandez — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 02:18:50 GMT

Hi @imran.hamblinNZK78, I hope you're doing fine. My insights:

In my opinion, the parking maneuver for that kind of vehicle shouldn't be considered a reverse maneuver. You found it difficult to park that vehicle while doing the simulation because that's indeed what will happen in real life, considering that the coupling offers poor control over the direction it has to go towards.

If the stall has to be traced as you have it, the vehicle should have more space to the left part of the layout of the parking lot to position itself better to go backward.

Best regards!