BACKING A SEMI: An illustrated guide of proven techniques.: Focusing on the 90° back with a Tractor Trailer rig.

by Norman Davis

Backing a an illustrated how to guide of proven techniques is a detailed step by step guide to the 90 degree backing of a semi tractor and trailer. Over 26 years of professional driving gives the author an in depth understanding of driving a semi.Easy to understand illustrations will help visualize the steps taken during each part of the backing routine.Backing trailers into tight spaces can be a challenge, especially for the less experienced driver.After careful observation of the steps taken when backing, The author has developed a routine to put the rig into a repeatable position that makes the approach and final spotting of the trailer as consistent as possible.

26 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 3, 2021

About the author

Norman Davis was born in 1913 at Dunedin, New Zealand. He received his education at Otago Boys' High School and the University of Otago, where he was taught by Professor Herbert Ramsay. He was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, in 1934 and studied comparative philology. From 1937 to 1938, he lectured in English at the University of Kaunas in Lithuania, and then at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 1938–39.

He remained in Bulgaria in the early part the Second World War, as a clandestine member of the Special Operations Executive. He was interned in Italy for a time, then resumed clandestine work from Turkey.

After the war he taught at the universities of London, Glasgow and Oxford. He succeeded J.R.R. Tolkien as the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford.

His most significant work was an edition of the medieval letters of the Paston family in three volumes published in 1971. He also edited a popular selection of the letters translated into modern English.