What vehicles are driven in reverse the most?

[wildone63]

Driving along a coned-off dual carriageway today i passed one of those roadworks trucks driving in reverse picking cones up (he probably had about three miles to do)!
It got me thinking what could be the vehicle or type of vehicles driven the longest distances in reverse?
Also what vehicle do you reckon spends the highest proportion of its operational time in reverse?
I reckon forklift trucks.
Any other suggestions?

[RedWhiteMonkey]

French

[Jem0911]

Forklifts

[TonyRPH]

RedWhiteMonkey said:

French

No, they have the record for 180 degree turns!

[AnotherClarkey]

Airport tugs?

[Puddenchucker]

Locomotives

[VeeFour]

TonyRPH said:

RedWhiteMonkey said:

French

No, they have the record for 180 degree turns!

Nah, that's the Italians.

[100SRV]

Land Rovers retreating from overgrown green lanes?

The worst bit is realising how little your body likes to twist after reversing for a few hundred metres without being able to lean out of the window...

[mrtwisty]

some sort of mining machinery that cant turn around in the shaft?

[smack]

Taxis.

[garycat]

Driving school cars must spend hours reversing round corners, parallel parking and doing 3-point turns

[Fun Bus]

Trucks. Reversing into loading bays, reversing to couple up to trailers.

[Riff Raff]

I spent years rolling silage on a tractor. Forward, reverse, forward, reverse.............

[60]

AnotherClarkey said:

Airport tugs?

They normally go forwards (they turn around and push if the aircraft is going backwards).

[sebhaque]

Fleet/company cars - whenever they get transported (which at work seems to be every other day), they're reversed up the transporter, wheelspinning along the way, and reversed into the bay when they get off it.

[pacman06]

An everton tour bus.. each year it gets dusted off, until the inevitable happens.. beep beep beep beep.... I think the mileage reads -0997450.

[Beyond Rational]

Some Claas Xerion could spend their entire lives going 'backwards', not that it makes that much difference.

[roger482]

Loading Shovels and Dozers.

[Rawwr]

Women. In car parks. Into my car.

[Mazdarese]

pacman06 said:

An everton tour bus.. each year it gets dusted off, until the inevitable happens.. beep beep beep beep.... I think the mileage reads -0997450.