I'm a newbie to RVing and backing up a trailer. We just bought 2023 F350 DUALLY with the backup assist. I backed in my first two trips in about a minute!! Freaking system is awesome!!!
It works awesome on a shorter trailer. I dont use mine because im a pro with all of my trailers. But, if I have someone backing me into the water with my boat or ski, you can get straight, turn it on and anyone can back you in with ease.
It's cool technology, I see so many people at boat ramps that could use that feature. BUT! My personal opinion, if someone can't back a trailer, they shouldn't be towing a trailer. Several years ago, my Wife wanted to go meet our friends on an upcoming horse ride when I was tied up with business and couldn't go. She had been towing the GN horse trailer with me in the truck but had done minimal backing. I told her I was fine with her taking my truck and our trailer on horse rides when I couldn't go, providing she could back the trailer in tight spots. For four weekends, early Sat and Sunday mornings we took the horse trailer to a shopping center parking lot where I set out cones and she spent over an hour each trip maneuvering around cones and backing through cones with my Ram 3500 dually and 24' GN horse trailer. A year later we got a 42' living quarters horse trailer, she practiced with it and could put that trailer anywhere she wanted.
Wow I can’t imagine why anyone would prefer to spend 15 minutes learning how to use tow assist when they could just spend 4 weekends learning to do it all the old fashioned way.
I love the tech. I have it on my F-150 and it's great to have. Yes, I can back up a trailer manually, but I also enjoying having the option. I have a small jetski trailer and I especially love using the assist to just keep her going straight down the boat ramp.
I've been towing for 30 years and until recently have had no issues backing up, but age is starting to attack my body and between cataracts and it getting harder to get in and out of my truck I for one welcome this tech. At my age I don't need to prove how rugged I am but doing things manually, I just want to pull a trailer.
After having this feature for a bit and giving it a shot, I have to say it is really slick. Especially when you get older and don’t see as well. It is a godsend.
I have it on my F150. Yes it works but honestly the more I tow I find manually is just easier once I figured out steering. I do really like the integrated rear view camera Ford and GMC are integrating into camera views and that honestly is more helpful than most of other tech.
Awesome feature to have. You did an amazing job backing the trailer in especially while holding the camera. One downfall I can see is people will get fixated and rely on the camera too much, and won’t be aware of what’s around them such an animals, people, obstacles, etc. But the feature is great for those with little to no experience backing a trailer in. It can definitely be frustrating and intimidating for those who are new.
@3:40, love that you are competitive, I bet you were sweating the whole time. I can not mess this up when I run a channel all about towing. Love your content JD.
I've been towing trailers since I have gotten my driver's license, and I have also had my CDL for 2.5 years now so I think I'd do worse backing up with the assist. The tech behind this is kinda cool though.
If you are great at backing trailers, it just adds a new skill to learn. It is much slower if you are already good. (It controls your speed). This is for your wife to back you and the boat into the ramp with ease.
I think it makes drivers less safe. Now they can more easily haul more weight with less knowalge and zero traning. We have to get a CDL if we haul so much as a brick in a trailer. Im calling this feature the "Noob Knob". I pulled the knob out of the turck and threw in the glove box. Putting some other, more usefull stuff in its place
It would have been nice to see it inside the truck. I know what backing up the truck and trailer looks like in my mirrors. I would have liked to see you operate the controls
I towed open race car trailers for years. So this would be so counter intuitive to my brain and butt. But it’s been so long, I’d probably like this feature if the truck was my primary towing vehicle. Think backwards- just like a woman 😳 🤔 A Shame I didn’t know that years ago 😂
I have it in my '23 tremor 350, super odd for me as an experienced driver. My buddy, however, was able to do a great job backing up with no experience it works well!
I have it on a 22 F250 and it won't work. It keeps dropping the calibration and Ford won't help because they have no way to check it. I have a 22RR Forest River Toyhauler I've tried it numerous times.
My question is if you have a fifth wheel already with a back up camera installed on the rig would you need to install the pro trailer system camera as well on the back of the rig for the feature to work or could you just use yourfurion back up camera that you have?
I temporarily stuck my sensor on my fifth wheel and connected the cable. Everything was plugged in. When I pressed my trailer assist knob, my screen said that the sensor was not connected. I tried several times. Yes I created a new trailer. Any thoughts? FYI. My truck and trailer were not level. It was just a test before permanent installation
Practice Practice, driving big trucks, pulling two trailers. My fellow drivers would look point and laugh if you had to pull up more than once. No mercy. Practice, Practice. Man Up.
If you can’t back your trailer you better stick to a motorhome. Trailer backing is very simple, place your hand at the bottom of the steering wheel and what ever way you move your hand that’s the way the trailer is going to go.
Features/technology like this are absolutely ridiculous. If someone needs aids like this to backup a trailer, they probably shouldn’t be pulling a trailer. It’s likely you will get yourself in a situation that you wouldn’t have had you learned the skills needed to back a trailer up. My wife, bless her heart, can not walk, talk and chew gum at the same time without tripping on her own feet. She can back a empty boat trailer connected to a mildly lifted 3/4ton, which does not have these dummy controls, into the water with one try.
Exactly I’m glad someone said something common sense about these new trailer back up aids. If you can’t back up trailer without the aids you shouldn’t be backing up in the first place.
You were too experienced for this to be a useful video. You never really used the backup system. It would be much better if you put a novice in the vehicle instead and you filmed them. Waste of viewer's time to watch you ignore the feature.
You guys are so closed minded. Imagine you just bought a $150,000 boat, but you are the only one that can back a trailer. You want your wife or buddy driving your new boat? NO. You get the trailer straight on the ramp and basically let the truck back you in while said wife or buddy sits in the drivers seat. My 18 y/o daughter can probably back a trailer better than any of yall without this feature anyway.
I'm a newbie to RVing and backing up a trailer. We just bought 2023 F350 DUALLY with the backup assist. I backed in my first two trips in about a minute!! Freaking system is awesome!!!
I would have like to see it used with a shorter trailer, since those are notoriously more difficult to back up.
It works awesome on a shorter trailer. I dont use mine because im a pro with all of my trailers. But, if I have someone backing me into the water with my boat or ski, you can get straight, turn it on and anyone can back you in with ease.
@@enigma9789 sure buddy
Lol it’s midnight and JD is putting up videos. Love the content.
It’s 1 am and I’m up watching. 😂 Why? Because…what if he posts another one? 😮
What is he in a different time zone than you 😮 lol
It's cool technology, I see so many people at boat ramps that could use that feature. BUT! My personal opinion, if someone can't back a trailer, they shouldn't be towing a trailer.
Several years ago, my Wife wanted to go meet our friends on an upcoming horse ride when I was tied up with business and couldn't go. She had been towing the GN horse trailer with me in the truck but had done minimal backing. I told her I was fine with her taking my truck and our trailer on horse rides when I couldn't go, providing she could back the trailer in tight spots. For four weekends, early Sat and Sunday mornings we took the horse trailer to a shopping center parking lot where I set out cones and she spent over an hour each trip maneuvering around cones and backing through cones with my Ram 3500 dually and 24' GN horse trailer. A year later we got a 42' living quarters horse trailer, she practiced with it and could put that trailer anywhere she wanted.
Wow I can’t imagine why anyone would prefer to spend 15 minutes learning how to use tow assist when they could just spend 4 weekends learning to do it all the old fashioned way.
I love the tech. I have it on my F-150 and it's great to have. Yes, I can back up a trailer manually, but I also enjoying having the option. I have a small jetski trailer and I especially love using the assist to just keep her going straight down the boat ramp.
I've been towing for 30 years and until recently have had no issues backing up, but age is starting to attack my body and between cataracts and it getting harder to get in and out of my truck I for one welcome this tech. At my age I don't need to prove how rugged I am but doing things manually, I just want to pull a trailer.
After having this feature for a bit and giving it a shot, I have to say it is really slick. Especially when you get older and don’t see as well. It is a godsend.
I have it on my F150. Yes it works but honestly the more I tow I find manually is just easier once I figured out steering. I do really like the integrated rear view camera Ford and GMC are integrating into camera views and that honestly is more helpful than most of other tech.
I have this on my truck, I think i'll just continue doing it myself..
Cool stuff, it's almost like built in training wheels.
What I like about the feature most are the camera's you can access to help with knowing where your rig is.
Awesome feature to have. You did an amazing job backing the trailer in especially while holding the camera.
One downfall I can see is people will get fixated and rely on the camera too much, and won’t be aware of what’s around them such an animals, people, obstacles, etc.
But the feature is great for those with little to no experience backing a trailer in. It can definitely be frustrating and intimidating for those who are new.
@3:40, love that you are competitive, I bet you were sweating the whole time. I can not mess this up when I run a channel all about towing. Love your content JD.
I've been towing trailers since I have gotten my driver's license, and I have also had my CDL for 2.5 years now so I think I'd do worse backing up with the assist. The tech behind this is kinda cool though.
If you are great at backing trailers, it just adds a new skill to learn. It is much slower if you are already good. (It controls your speed).
This is for your wife to back you and the boat into the ramp with ease.
I think it makes drivers less safe. Now they can more easily haul more weight with less knowalge and zero traning. We have to get a CDL if we haul so much as a brick in a trailer. Im calling this feature the "Noob Knob". I pulled the knob out of the turck and threw in the glove box. Putting some other, more usefull stuff in its place
I really needed to see the screen while he was back up. Along with how he was turning the knob.
Man that would be hard to get used to.. My wife would probably love it though
Even I, someone who’s never backed a trailer would rather do it manually.
I love tech, but that’s one thing we could do without.
They are trying to get us to depend to much on technology. What happens if your system starts going haywire
You're absolutely right I don't want to reprogram the 72 yo brain.
It would have been nice to see it inside the truck. I know what backing up the truck and trailer looks like in my mirrors. I would have liked to see you operate the controls
Thanks for your content. I agree, wish they had a 5th wheel out there to test the system.
I towed open race car trailers for years. So this would be so counter intuitive to my brain and butt.
But it’s been so long, I’d probably like this feature if the truck was my primary towing vehicle.
Think backwards- just like a woman 😳
🤔 A Shame I didn’t know that years ago 😂
I’m a diehard GM guy…. This was impressive.
JD trolling 😂
I have it in my '23 tremor 350, super odd for me as an experienced driver. My buddy, however, was able to do a great job backing up with no experience it works well!
You knew the manual backup was going to go well - and I'm not saying it would have been cut if it didn't :)
,i like that sir
Great content as always; I’d like to hear more from you on the sensor for 5th wheels
The Pro Trailer Backup Assist tends to oversteer in my experience with it.
I have it on a 22 F250 and it won't work. It keeps dropping the calibration and Ford won't help because they have no way to check it. I have a 22RR Forest River Toyhauler I've tried it numerous times.
My question is if you have a fifth wheel already with a back up camera installed on the rig would you need to install the pro trailer system camera as well on the back of the rig for the feature to work or could you just use yourfurion back up camera that you have?
I temporarily stuck my sensor on my fifth wheel and connected the cable. Everything was plugged in. When I pressed my trailer assist knob, my screen said that the sensor was not connected. I tried several times. Yes I created a new trailer. Any thoughts? FYI. My truck and trailer were not level. It was just a test before permanent installation
Is there something you put on the trailer for the camera to see it?
You mount an included sticker on the trailer draw bar. RTFM and it's easy. Took us about 30 minutes to set up and test.
Can you use this with a Reece goose box?
Practice Practice, driving big trucks, pulling two trailers. My fellow drivers would look point and laugh if you had to pull up more than once. No mercy. Practice, Practice. Man Up.
Is that trailer custom built or is it in stock somewhere?
Not sure why you aren’t using the assist
If you can’t back your trailer you better stick to a motorhome. Trailer backing is very simple, place your hand at the bottom of the steering wheel and what ever way you move your hand that’s the way the trailer is going to go.
Dont bust your arm patting yourself on the back
Too late. Don't hurt your fingers trolling.
@@BigTruckBigRV lmao you know I'm just giving you heck.
Features/technology like this are absolutely ridiculous. If someone needs aids like this to backup a trailer, they probably shouldn’t be pulling a trailer. It’s likely you will get yourself in a situation that you wouldn’t have had you learned the skills needed to back a trailer up. My wife, bless her heart, can not walk, talk and chew gum at the same time without tripping on her own feet. She can back a empty boat trailer connected to a mildly lifted 3/4ton, which does not have these dummy controls, into the water with one try.
Exactly I’m glad someone said something common sense about these new trailer back up aids. If you can’t back up trailer without the aids you shouldn’t be backing up in the first place.
You were too experienced for this to be a useful video. You never really used the backup system. It would be much better if you put a novice in the vehicle instead and you filmed them. Waste of viewer's time to watch you ignore the feature.
Yeah....no
You guys are so closed minded. Imagine you just bought a $150,000 boat, but you are the only one that can back a trailer. You want your wife or buddy driving your new boat? NO. You get the trailer straight on the ramp and basically let the truck back you in while said wife or buddy sits in the drivers seat.
My 18 y/o daughter can probably back a trailer better than any of yall without this feature anyway.
This is such a stupid feature! if you can't back up, you have no bussiness drving it forward. "Noob Knob"
No goober, we’re knob snobs . lol
Just goes to show if you drive a ford, you’re not smart enough to back a trailer.
Yeah that's exactly what it show 🙄