Parking Challenge

those are European cab overs on a video game??

never drove one so can't answer

 

Every parking space is different. Just focus on parking without hitting anything, not even a little bit. It won't do you any good to have heard 65 different drivers argue about which type of parking is more difficult than another. Will the parking space suddenly become a 90 deg spot if we all say one is more difficult? Will having strangers on the internet say "oh man this type of parking is soooo hard" help you park? Just learn how to push the trailer left or right when backing and don't hit anything. One accident or one ticket could end your trucking job. Most drivers go decades without hitting things. EVERY new driver in recent years seems to just assume they will hit things and get tickets and are shocked when they can't find work. Your job is to get from A to B and not hit things, not have an excuse after you hit things. Trucking companies and trucking schools have many videos on YouTube on how to park trailers. I like the ones with an overhead view and one with an instructor giving step-by-step directions and explaining where to look and when to look at the spot to park safely.

 

Since you are new, I probably would.
Biggest problems are the lot lizards.

Looks like the truck parking lot at the Turkish border.....

 

all you really need is enough room to maneuver.

not just enough to fit, but enough to wiggle around in.

 

The issue with parking spaces of either orientation is if you leave some extra room, either between each vehicle when parked or in front of each vehicle when parked, that wastes space that could have been a couple extra parking spaces or it is used by the make-your-own-parking-spot drivers causing problems for the drivers trying to follow the idea of a parking lot.

I think the obvious solution is to hire Hell's Angels to enforce the rules of professional truck driver etiquette.

 

I think the irony of that statement is obvious....