With that restriction do I need to get a new permit to retest with a manual truck? I am in Indiana.
I have a manual restriction on my license I just got yesterday.
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I can't speak for Indiana, but in Colorado it only requires scheduling a new driving test.
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I have it too . This is also a question I had but I'm not super concerned about it right now just working for mega carriers many of their fleets are automatic anyway .
I felt like I didn't have enough time to practice manual truck driving in my school program. I was getting better at it but I only had a set number of driving hours in that one week , and they strongly advised me to just test on the auto .
When I was learning to drive a manual car it seemed almost impossible to me at first . I had to take several weeks and find a totally different teacher to learn it well enough to drive on my own . -
They made me get a new permit. Pretrip, straight line, parallel, and offset, then drive. Just the usual bs.
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I was told I’m Texas you have the do the entire road test but not the pretrip or backing.
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With automatic transmissions becoming the norm throughout the country, it probably won't matter anymore if a truck driver has that restriction on his or her license.
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It ain't hard to learn shifting. I had it down pretty good after a couple hours in the truck. I bet it'd be a lot easier if you were already comfortable handling a truck in city traffic, rather than having everything thrown at you at once.
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Prob gotta go to a testing site.
Sellersburg is the one closest to me that has a state examiner on site. That tdi truck school in southern indiana.
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It's to your benefit to know how to drive a manual tranny. Because some day, somewhere, you will be assigned a manual in front of "the guys" and you DON'T want to suffer the giggles from them when you meekly say "I don't know how to drive a manual". It almost happened to me when I was assigned a 5X4 set of sticks in my early years which I had never driven, but I bluffed my way thru it and figured it out as I got down the highway !
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