A new regulation I would be all for

You do know an IQ test doesn't determine how smart you are or how much common sense you may have right?...Seems the arrow you aimed at others may have came around and hit your own backside...

And Intelligence and common sense don't necessarily go hand in hand...

 

Some of the smartest, most intelligent people I know are also some of the dumbest:smt101. A high IQ, or pedigreed education does not impress me,and has little, if any, bearing on common sense.Quite often it is just the fact that perhaps a little more thought time should have been invested before a decision is made. I do agree we have some less than bright fellow gear jammers, but that's trucking.No test can weed out poor judgement, but I like your thinking.

 

A [english] reading and comprehension test would go a long way to accomplishing this, too. I don't say this to be flippant, I say this to highlight an issue that many struggle with and many don't fully comprehend the numbers actually involved. I think in many cases where it is assumed the driver can't follow basic instructions, it turns out the driver can't read and/or comprehend said english instructions. Many of these individuals are from other nations and many just never could master the English language. And it's not just drivers obviously, but it is sad.

Every time I mention this, it generates a lot of opposition and I really don't understand why. I guess it's because those here on the TTR forums have no problem with reading and comprehension of the written english language and assume that everyone else can too but I can assure that's not the case and it does create problems, some worse than others.

 

How many tests do you want me too take? Any more and when I'm done my health card will be expired..

 

One still has to take the written exams to get their CDLs....

I think it has more to do with the companies desperate to lure drivers in THEIR trucks as opposed someone else's truck, that their hiring standards are low when it comes to the kind of people they hire to drive.

The more I think about it, the more I believe we move too much freight by truck. We could make do with half the drivers we have now, and have higher hiring standards, and move the rest of it by train. Rates would not go down if there is still the same load/truck ratios. Our roads are clogged enough as it is, and THAT isn't going to get better any time soon. They can't build roads fast enough.

 

You cannot regulate common sense . Just look at any law and you see that there is no common sense in the law. I am opposed to any new regulations of any kind we have enough already.

 

My daugther is a certified Genius and does not have a lick of common sense. So forget about an IQ test for common sense. LOL

 

Alrighty then. Is there a test for common sense? Er cents..? It's obvious an English test will not work/or enforced.

 

While this is TECHNICALLY a true statement, at least in North Carolina (where I obtained my CDL), the spirit of the word "written" is not being upheld. At the DMV office where I took my tests, one received headphones which you were instructed to wear during the tests. I had no idea why until I took the first test. For every written page that appeared on the screen, a voice in the headphones read the words to you. When a question was asked and the multiple choice answers were presented, the program highlighted the answer that was being read to you. In addition, each question was accompanied by a picture that was relevant the scenario the question described. to It would seem to me that so long as you could hear and see, you could be completely illiterate and still pass the written examinations.