Love the helix-like tread marks in the third and forth shots. I've made them myself more than once.

I've spend a lot of time moving awkward shaped combination vehicles around since I was about half as tall and twice as thin as I am now, so when  I didn't much care for the parallel parking part of the license test when I took it, I told the instructor that around here, it'd be a more practical test to have people back a loaded hay wagon up a barnhill through doors barely as wide as the top of the wagon.  Well, Little Miss PennDOT wasn't amused...

Of course, the reason I failed the parallel parking part my first time through wasn't that I couldn't do it... the vehicle I took the test in was literally longer than the rectangle of traffic cones alloted for the test.  Ended up knocking one over with the Reese hitch on the truck.  I was supposed to use the neighbor's minivan for it, but his son was cleaning out the car after a trip, and they burned the registration.  Didn't feel so bad, though.  I was told that a young lady failed the parking test in a Geo Tracker.

Your trailers are longer than my wagons, but you've got two things going for you:  there a little bit narrower, and you only have one pivot to worry about.  Of course, I don't have to deal with quite as much traffic as you.

But, inevitably, when I have to go over the road with farm machinery, there are people on the road bent on earning a Darwin award.  It's like seeing big, awkward pieces of machinery with huge blind spots is some kind of secret trigger for drivers to go into pass at all costs mode, and I mean ALL costs.  The only thing worse than a pedestrian is a pedestrian behind the wheel.

normally, manuvering a 53 foot trailer isn't a big deal, but when in tight quarters, it takes patience.

Most drivers are too macho and want to do it in one move, but this morning was another time that I had to stop and realize, I can't put this in there without taking time.  The limit was the curb in front of me (on the opposite side of the street) so I just had to jockey back and forth a dozen or so times, each time putting the rear end 3 inches closer to where it needed to be while keeping the steers off the sidewalk.

Though I'd never driven a truck til learning at age 35, I seem to have a bit of a knack for it.

I have noticed that country drivers do have a better appreciation for big trucks, and I assume it is being familiar with farm machinery moving on, over, and near the narrow 2 lanes.

There are definitely situations where laying siege is a better approach than a quick attack, and there's also definitely an element of instinct to it all.  My first times backing wagons in, I was quicker than my mother's hundredth time, and she's a capable operator.  But I've got nothing compared to my neighbor.  He can have two wagons stacked in the machinery shed on one side before I even get lined up for my first go.  Of course, he's also the reason the doors on opposite ends have an outward bow, sometimes he drives them back a bit too far, too quickly.  Most of our outbuildings have poor lighting, if any, so it's done by dead reckoning, and the area to line up is small, rutted, or small and rutted.  And muddy, down by the creek.

Last year, I was backing hay wagons in in the dead of night, had a truck parked on the other end of the building with the headlights on to sort of give me an idea where the walls were, and my power steering lines blew out in the process.  That's when you realize how indespensible the independent mechanical brakes on farm tractors really are.  Always thought that particular feature was neat.  That's how you separate the men from the boys--guys who don't know what they're doing often don't even realize that you can separate the brakes.

I've got some equipment that actually stretches from the gravel on one side of the road, clear to the other.  My roller harrow, on some of the narrower roads around here, can take up all of the usable roadway and shoulder.  Fortunately, I rarely have to go far with that, and most of the other equipment folds up in some way or another for over the road.