When I retired from my real job I tried trucking for a year. Found out it wasn't for me. Not an easy life for sure. Did learn a lot from it though. I have kept my class A license up to date, health card and all. One thing I learned for sure I don't care who the heck you are, your going to have good days backing and bad days backing. Even the best driver can have a bad day and can't back in to a dock with 40 yards of space on both sides. Then again there are some folks who just never do get it .
If I had unlimited money, I would by a big tricked out hood truck, loaded with chrome and lights, and a trailer and just roam the country. Yaba daba daba doo.
I'm sooooo glad you posted this......for years I thought there was something wrong with me! This is one of my favorite things to do!There may be nothing more enjoyable than sitting on the patio on a warm spring day sipping a cold one and watching the parade of folks trying to back in their rig.
Recently we watched an older couple try to back in a tear drop for 45 minutes. Finally got it in sideways.
Then he spent almost a hour unloading the back of his truck and setting up.
BTW, they left the next morning.
Bet you have a check list too.
You know that is a funny story and one many can relate to. However we have all missed something at one time or another. Maybe not so big as the antenna you describe. Weather your setting up or hitch up getting ready to go, you have missed something. Now for me I don't miss a thing unless I'm distracted by someone( normally the wife) . She can and she will do so each and every time. You'd think I'd be use to it by now and adapt, but NOooo not me. I was lucky once about 2 years ago. She made me forget to check things and do my walk around I normally do. I don't just check my taskings I check hers. Hers are the slide outs and awning, and chock blocks once the truck is hooked up and ready to pull. Mine are the water electric and the nasty nasty cleaning of tanks and line. Well I got about 20 feet and started to make a slight turn always checking my mirrors. Looking out my passenger side I now see the awning still out. In this case I was lucky and no harm done. She was telling me the dogs had to go pee and she need the harness for both which she could not find but they were in the truck which side tracked me to getting them for her . No walk around and almost no awning. We had both blown it . Now I didn't say a word but to this day how she didn't see that big old awning hanging out the side when she put the dogs in the truck I'll never know.
My uncle taught me GOAL when I first started RVing. BEST advice ever. Being blind in one eye, I may get out 2 or 3 times if there is no one around to help guide me back. I figure as long as I get it done, nothing scratched, nothing broken ... all is good. Enjoy the show, my friends. I know I always do when I watch others. ?
Looks perfectly doable. Might have to pull in the mirrors, just before they greet the trees. ?
We have a set of Midlands we use with ear buds and mic so nobody else can listen in while I rant .
I did one like this over in GA last year. Had a long driveway to go down, then a turn to the left and then back into the slip. But at 40', it's not easy and there was a lot of jockeying to get moved around and backed in. Took about 30 minutes (or more) and to make matters worse, it was raining cats/dogs. In the process, I happened to look to the right and I was about 2" from a huge tree, which would have crunched the door and taken the passenger mirror off. Hit the brakes, saved the mirror, pulled up and finally got to where I could back in. Got out and acted like I knew what I was doing all along.
Looks like it is doable - no different than pulling into my yard and intentionally missing the mailbox by 6" to line up on the pad while missing the eave of the house by a bit, oh and the oak tree from taking off my mirror.
