How to Park a single trailer in ETS2/ATS?

Quick tutorial giving some tips on how to park a single trailer valid for ETS2 and ATS. Specially beginners have a hard time parking a truck, so I hope this can help.

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[Hypersky]

What the taught me in trucking school: Top of the steering wheel = front of trailer, bottom = back. Move accordingly. 😊

[Sponge]

I found it easier to do by ‘hanging out the window’ and looking back at the trailer, it partly eliminates the left is right and right is left complication :) But in the end, the most important thing is to keep practicing and you’ll get good at it sooner than you’d think :)

[raithrover]

Straightening the 5th wheel coupling joint before you start reversing is the most important thing. I call it the artic driver's wiggle. Also, if you can see too much trailer in the left mirror, turn the wheel to the left. If you can see too much trailer in the right mirror, turn the wheel to the right, is advice i got when i was learning in real life.

[haryosoo]

1st person cam is pretty immersive while aided by leaning out cam. The challenge is when you gotta park from the blind side when you gotta rely on the mirrors. But then again, practice makes perfect, just quicksave before approaching the destination company's parking lot.

[johnbower]

The main thing is to enjoy it too; I've backed 2 real trailers now (experience days) and it taught me that reversing accurately can be both fun and satisfying. As you say don't be hard on yourself; that just takes away the enjoyment. truck slow; steering fast as the instructors both told me. 1 on 2 off; that means to straighten the trailer up for every turn you put on the wheels you need to take 2 the other way. Good tips and also; we have it a little harder than real life as our mirrors (for most people anyway) are much smaller than the real thing; believe me; they are huge on a real lorry and you can see so much better in them.

[Roon_MoonlightSub]

I learned parking by spending time on practicing on ETS2 and ATS ;)

By the way nice video!

[americanrider]

Of course, a proper approach and setup for the chosen parking spot is important. The mistake is thinking just steering inputs at the front of the rig will do the job when you should really be watching the trailer tandems for steering inputs to guide the trailer into position, just remember your steering inputs will be reversed.

[SaMartok]

Thx for the tutorial 👍
I'm allways struggeling with double trailercombo's, like the Krone double.

[TaronTT]

Thank you for this video! I can park really well myself, but it will help a ton for my friends who are still learning.

[MayoTheCyberNinja]

For those who are aiming for a real trucking career like I am, you can challenge yourself by trying to park the trailer on first person and using the mirrors. You can use the camera 2 as a way to believe you get out of the truck to see how you're doing so far.

[androidgamingtech]

This tutorial will be so useful not Just In ETS2, but in all truck games.. I usually set off as slow as i can and more likely to be backing up slowly. Then I hangout the drivers head on the window side and Then while backing up im using both mirrors

[SilentRoadStudio]

Another pro tip: Best way to tell if you are in the spot, this mainly works loading docks like the depot's like in this video is that when are back into the dock the white lines on the dock should be seen in both side mirrors. Never be afraid to use the "get out and look" method. Bumping the dock pads can give you better input on where you need to be and tell you wheather you are too far to the left or right and/or are crooked. Both coners ends the trailer should be in between the lines on the dock doors and again the lines should be visible in both side mirrors. In some docks depending on how SCS created the docs there's may not be a line or it's too far in or over so if can't see the dock door in either mirror after you bump it you are golden(but this does not apply with wide dock doors as they are different.

This helped me a lot in my rookie days.

[flatoutste]

Cool video for people to lean how to back up me I like it tighter the better after spending 38 years behind the wheel of a truck thanks

[mulleflemse]

Actual truckdriver here, i started with steer axles when i started driving and they are much easier to reverse with than fixed ones

[scottytissue]

Best trick I've learned in backing trailers is to put your hand at the bottom of the wheel.
Then you simply turn the wheel from there in the direction you want the back of the trailer to go.

[SomKing]

I'm doing it without problems since 2016 (if not even sooner). Recently I was bored, so I had chosen the shortest job (it was 3 minutes of IRL driving between cities) and I decided to reverse it whole without going forward (after I left loading ramp and had a chance to turn around) and reversed ot whole to Trameri and parked there. Whole job was without stopping (except choosing how to park the trailer), but also without going forward after first turn.

[CW_user]

Really useful for beginners, knowing the trailer movement is the key point

[bgmikayoutuber]

Me with oversize trailer
Thanks for the help man now i parked my trailer but the company got a bit to much happy they didnt give me money

[T.K.]

what I found is that its easier to reverse when you are at the outside camera looking at the front of the truck and seeing where its reversing.

Its easy to re-adjust the turn when you can see the tire's whether if they are turned or straight on. So that you know when you did the slight turn to re-adjust then return it to straight on to continue backing up. The last thing you wanna do is back up while the tires are on a slight turn and it messes your maneuver.

Being in the cab FPS view of the driver and just using the mirrors, is a bit more difficult.

[dgcompany]

10/10
Tried with my ford focus, I can now park everywhere 👍