Parking techniques

[g220ba]

Having come across varying opinions on the matter i thought it'd be interesting to guage the car enthusiast opinion on the matter.

Basically whether i be in a truck or car i would prefer to and generally find it safer to reverse into a parking spot and drive straight out. I generally find it safer because when i reverse i can see everything around me and when i drive out i'm not reversing into potentially flowing traffic and i can definetely see whats coming a lot clearer.

Having visited Mackay several times i've found it odd that they are the only ones i've come across (surely there are more) that have reverse angle parking in the city. It's a fantastic system that is only let down by the fact people can't seem to reverse into the spots correctly.

What prompted me to bring this up is that recently i've had 2 rather interesting conversations on this matter during my daily run. The first involved a gentleman trying to tell me it was illegal to reverse into a parking because i questioned as to why his workplace had a sign saying no reverse parking (The sign was there because it was a newly rendered wall and they didn't want tow bars to damage it, It didn't take long for me to figure that out but thought i'd ask the bloke). I still didn't agree with the sign but understand the reasoning.

The second involved a gentleman refuse to load my truck because i reversed into the loading zone when for some reason the rules stated i MUST drive in. When questioned he couldn't explain to me sufficiently why i MUST drive in.

It should be interesting to guage the general concensus.