Pre trip failed at DMV….

Seems like Chicago and Illinois DMV.

 

Good luck. You don't have to mention any of this during job interviews; keep it to yourself.
Will you still get a certificate from 160?

 

Umm, I dont know about other states, but in Minnesota you can have a checklist to follow on the pre-trip with you as you take the test. And why shouldnt you be able to do that, after all you fill out a DVIR (or at least used to many years ago) every day and everything is on that. If thats the case in your state, other than the truck itself failing, how can you fail that part?

 

It sounds like the instructor threw in a monkey wrench to your carefully laid plans of a rehearsed pre-trip, by changing the order in which you did the pre-trip.
It sounds like she wanted you to show her what you knew and understood, as opposed to what you memorized.

 

Practice forwards, practice backwards, practice standing on your head doing the okey pokey.

Examiners love to fail because it makes their numbers look good.

Welcome to trucking.
Whenever you point your finger at someone/thing - there’s three pointing at you.

Seven years experience and I’m still failing/learning.

 

Are there Youtube videos on this? Record the best one a voice recorder and play it over and over to yourself throughout the day.

She's a government employee with specific responsibilities and she has to follow certain guidelines for doing the test. Was she even qualified to be giving you the test? Is she a trained and certified examiner or is she on loan from another department? The regular person could be on vacation and she is just filling in, making up the rules as she goes along. The public has a right to know this.

 

Former 160 Instructor here, in KY when I taught you didn’t move on to skills until you could do the ENTIRE Pretrip forwards or backwards or sideways, and then EVERYDAY you stepped on my yard you did thr FULL PRETRIP VERBATIM FROM MEMORY, 2 days before your test it was just you and me and the truck. We would do every inch of that truck TWICE then do skills, then pretrip and skills you got 16 hrs to go over everything and ask questions
It sucked you only had 4 weeks of “training” but I had a 100% pass rate on my students, and they could maneuver a truck SAFELY and Confidently