Why wait at a jump gate,use the quick dock.
Find the first ships in the queue for the jump gate and when you are real close to them hit the formation key while you have them selected and bobs your uncle you go through with their group.
Note:it do not allways work as sometimes you get spat out of the side and have to wait to circle round and dock again but you still jump the queue

Quick docking is nothing but can you dock sideways or backwards?

In Rebalance, yes. I'm often pulled through a jump gate backward.

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