Just got my license this morning

It was nerve-wracking. My school let the DMV use the worst truck in their fleet for the test. I was doing the offset backing and the parallel parking and sometimes the brakes on the drive tires would lock up for no apparent reason. I didn't have my foot on the brake at all, just using clutch and accelerator to start and stop, and the air brake pressure would slowly drop until the warning light started beeping at me. There were two or three times that I'd have the truck in reverse, I'd press the accelerator to the floor and the truck just...wouldn't move.

The DMV guy noticed it and asked about it, so I dunno if that affected my test scores in any way. But, at the end of the day, I prevailed. The actual road-test went pretty smoothly, and apparently I did well enough on the rest of it to pass.

LOOK OUT, ROADS! I GOT A LICENSE!

 

Beats me. My guess is that the better trucks had been claimed by the instructors who didn't want to inflict that POS on themselves and their students while they drove around and practiced backing. So the POS truck was the only one left for DMV testing by default. So not really an intentional thing, more of unintended consequences.

 

I put in an application with Abilene on Monday, and will be following up with them today. Wish me luck.