What is Your Reason For Backing Your Pickup Truck Into Parking Spaces? – IOTW Report

What is Your Reason For Backing Your Pickup Truck Into Parking Spaces?

Saturday, 10 December 2022, 11:41 BFH Uncategorized 53

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  3. Exactly! I would rather take the extra 60 seconds and back into to a space , than park like the rest of the sheeple, my uncle got me started on that when I was a teenager, over 40 some years ago now . BTW I like that term “combat park” I’m going to steal that one ! 😂

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  7. First, as a kid my Dad told me I should never back up any further than I have to. After seeing him back into a countless number of things, I know why he thought that way. The last thing you tell a kid is not to do something. I’d back all the way around the block, just to see his expression. My guess, no depth perception in a mirror.
    I always back into the driveway because I have a better field of vision, than trying to back out.
    My Mom HATED motorcycles, you can guess how that worked out. Still riding today.

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  8. I park front in because, three times so far, it has given me the opportunity to get out of my truck and “commiserate “, ogle and shake my head in pretended horror at how much damage my hitch did to the BMW etc who saw my truck, it’s reverse lights and movement but still decided to thread the closing space and speed by rather than suffering the nine second delay..

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  10. 1) Because when shopping you pull into a parking lot you can take inventory of any kids and you are going to be parking right away. When you get back out of the store you have items you have bought and it takes time to put them in the vehicle.
    2) Because when I get to the parking garage for the commuter rail commuters are arriving over a period of about ten minutes and when the train gets back to the station in the evening everyone gets off at the same time and it takes a real dedicated slob to be so inconsiderate that they block others who are exiting the parking structure while they are making multiple back and forth efforts to back out of a parking space.
    3) Because pickups have a larger turning radius and can be parked by backing in in one attempt due to the front end swings to line up with the spaces.

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  11. I can’t tell you how many times, when backing out of a space, that some idiot pedestrian walks right behind me. I will back my truck in, if convenient, and the spaces are aligned correctly. I also fold my mirrors in as a courtesy.

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  12. Every morning, I look at the county sheriffs website for the arrests from the previous day. It’s typically between 15 and 35 people. Approximately 80% of them got nicked for having no drivers license. Some are listed as never having had one and some as expired more than 6 months.

    What’s the connection to the query of this post? They drive in parking lots and the visibility is much greater pulling out of a parking spot than it is backing out.

    Oh, and there’s a lot of folks here far more senior than I am that shouldn’t be driving at all. Especially when our population doubles when the snowbirds arrive.

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  15. No matter what shopping parking lot I find myself in I pull forward into the next space, no need to backup 🙂

    Also park away from the crowds, so much easier than parking next to the crazies 🤪
    Once in awhile you’ll get a loser with a POS go out of his way to park near you or right up your arse. Great another door ding 🤬

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  16. My question is why some lots post signs saying “DO NOT BACK IN.” I don’t see what the big deal is.

    I usually pull through so I am facing out. I pull in straight into my garage because we would not have room to get things out of the back if I back in. The Beast is huge.

    My right mirror does not fold in or I would bring the mirrors in as a courtesy.

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  17. As already mentioned, it’s a visibility thing. When you’re getting ready to back in, you can see a long way in all directions and can wait for any traffic, vehicular or pedestrian, to get the F out of the way before you move. If you’re parked front in, your vision is greatly restricted. This is made even worse by the ever increasing proportion of SUVs and minivans likely to be parked next to you which cut down the visibility even more.

    @D — your mention of your hitch reminds me of one of my pet peeves: trucks with hitch receivers when the driver leaves some humongous hitch hanging out at times as much as a foot. Hey, guys, take that bumper-mangling hitch out when you’re not using it!

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  19. An old guy (much older than myself) yelled at me once for parking my truck like that. He said “that’s illegal!!” I then laughed at him and told him there is no such law.
    His reply, “You are liable for any accidents if someone hits you when you pull out.”
    My reply; “This is a Fleet Farm parking lot, LOOK at all the pickup trucks parked like mine, count em’. Call a cop!”
    End of story

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  20. you can see that you are clear to back in when you drive up. you can not see that you are clear to back out later.

    multiply that by 10 if you have a utility shell – a working truck shell with external tool boxes, no side windows, and useless back windows

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  31. It’s simple physics….If you put your steering axle on the rear of the vehicle as you back in it’s just is easier….I have a 95 & 97 Ford F250 extra cab power strokes and they want me to put it into a parking spot designed for a Toyota Corolla…..Head in 3 point parking at best and it keeps my dogs from giggling at me…Dogs love trucks….

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  33. I prefer to park Font IN in PUBLIC lots.

    If people screw up while you are in a store for example & they hit your car, the BACK is MUCH less critical.

    LESS SENSORS, Electronics, Air bag Contacts etc. Front Bumpers are also more expensive in many cases esp if they are moulded/integrated or have driving lights.

    So Go ahead and Bump into my E-250 of the F-150 Back bumper.

    At home, where I have a lot of distance from the street, I back in First to make leaving easier in the morning.

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  35. I am glad pickup truck drivers back in, because their trailer hitches stick out another foot. I’d rather deal with the front end sticking out when I’m navigating a lane in the parking lot.

    Nothing against hitches, I have one, but I rarely use it, so I keep it inside the truck.

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  37. Ghost of Burner DECEMBER 10, 2022 AT 12:26 PM

    Ding! Ding! Ding!
    A habit that’s well over fifty years old. On occasion some of the places you might be frequenting require a rather expeditious exit.

    Then he said, “Delete those additional four paragraphs…”

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  38. I used to own a pickup. I also worked on a farm as a teenager, where I drove pickups, stake bed trucks, tractors, etc.
    Like a few people said above. The turning radius of any vehicle is smaller when the back end is what is steered. That’s why forklifts steer at the rear wheels.
    So, backing up your pickup means you can get around tight corners easier, such as getting into parking spaces.
    Personally, I prefer to find spaces further away from the store where I can pull through.

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  40. My best solution is when I moved to this part of Kansas where there basically ain’t nobody…..I can park it like I stole it…..I have to drive 40 miles to see a traffic light and I only do that on holidays….

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  41. @MissKitty You sound like me when I venture out.
    I have a small car (Nissan Juke). It’s a pick up truck magnet, “ The Big Truck Hypotheses” where no matter where I park some one ton monster will park next to me-even in a mostly empty lot. So, if I back out it’s a Hail Mary effort to not get hit as I do it. So, I do the pull through to see marginally better next to the big rigs.

    Mr Illustr8r has a truck and pulls though or backs in. Especially good at quick getaways in parking garages after a hockey game.

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  42. Brad: /_/_/_/_/ diagonal parking means that a motor vehicle shall be parked or stopped to the curb, gutter, sidewalk or edge of the roadway at an angle of forty-five degrees and parked within six (6″) inches of the curb, gutter, or sidewalk on or along said street

  45. tell the Prius owners that it reduces the carbon footprint of your truck, so you do it to combat global warming. If their head doesn’t explode, tell them that statement is actually true. It takes less time to back a truck into a space (see the forklift and three-point turn explanations above) so the motor is running less.

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  46. We have a 2011 Lariat 4×4 Max Tow SCREW. I am not inclined to drive farm machinery in town and I live in town, so we also have a car. We had a 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee until October, that’s how my arm got broken. I rarely took the load distribution hitch out of the receiver because it mostly is just sitting here unless we are going on a trip. If we aren’t going to be moving the camper, I take it off before leaving home.

    We just got a Explorer on Thursday, so I won’t have to be driving farm machinery around Tacoma and parking it like I have the last two months. When we leave home we get the hell away from population centers for the most part and it doesn’t make much difference.

    We will probably use the Explorer on trips more than we did the Grand Cherokee. It’s a pretty slick outfit and is just enough bigger to be comfortable on trips.

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  49. I punched out a radiator on a Beemer once with a pintle hitch on the back of an F350 diesel. The dood was tailgaiting and dogging me… sooo, as I approached a stop sign I held off braking then braked hard. The dood plugged himself into the hitch!
    No damage to my truck – I’m not filing a complaint, are yoooo???
    We parted ways. Me smiling, him not so much!

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  51. First vehicle was a 78 Chevy panel van. No windows so no rear view mirror. Was always much easier to back in than back out. Now there are several areas around town where the city has converted street parking from parallel parking (which most people can’t do but I could in Ol Blue) to back in only by slanting the lines opposite of pull in because it is much safer to pull into traffic from a diagonal space than to back out of one.

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