"Never do a buttonhook after you pass your CDL test"
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I thought he already covered this in his buttonhook thread: (and our hero in the yellow car makes an appearance)
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The problem is one of vocabulary.
What you're calling a jug handle, I and Schneider call a button hook. What you're calling a button hook, I would call squaring off.Last edited: Apr 1, 2025
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To be honest, Armstrong steering wasn't that hard when the truck is rolling. Just sitting there, it was work!Vampire, 88 Alpha, Star Rider and 5 others Thank this.
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Wow. I never heard such a bickering over making a right hand turn. Now we have buttonhooks, and jughandles and squaring off...what is this madness y'all speak of? Just drive the #### truck. Do what you gotta do and do it safely. It ain't rocket surgery.
I try to avoid tight right hand turns, but guess what? I still have to make them! I do it daily! Sometimes I even impress myself, other times I look like a rookie. But I don't lay awake thinking about it, eitherTurkeyCreekJackJohnson, Star Rider, Gearjammin' Penguin and 16 others Thank this. -
But, did you vote?
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Excellent. 3 left turns make a right turn.
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I go by DOT's definitions in the CDL Manuals of all 50 states. DOT is the authority for me, not Schneider.Oxbow Thanks this.
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I'm reasonably sure that when I got my chauffeur's license in 1980 that buttonhook and jug handle were not in the manual. Also, power steering was not as common as it is today. And now, I am ashamed of myself for reading as much of this thread as I have!MACK E-6, Star Rider, High Stepper and 11 others Thank this.
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Only if you are not on his ignore list. Notice the votes are in his favor. Coincidence? I think not.Star Rider, Kyle G., Concorde and 4 others Thank this.
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