What is the best way to go about getting a Class A?

The stick part is no problem, plenty of drivers start out not knowing how. Concentrate on getting your permit. Everything else will come later.

 

Thats fine you got a medical card,,but whoever drives the truck to the test site has to have a valid medical card as well as a class A. As for shifting it depends on the person. Most catch on real quick.

 

Id put the part of "just driving to the testing place" out of your mind. Just go through a formal school first. Your waisting your time as your going to have to do it eventually anyways.

 

Also most companies will make you do a road test, and some even send rookies out of school home. So don't try to take short cuts unless it's to get to truckinchic's heart, and I still don't think you can take short cuts to get to that. So get with the program or play cyber wannabe for a few more years. I didn't know how to drive a stick when I started either. But you will get the hang of it. Normally while in training with the company. Unless you don't have many people in the truck you are driving at school.

 

Not true, Rookie!

 

1. Not sure about your state but I'm pretty sure you get 3 tries.
2. No, the instructor does not have a brake on his side. It's all you. You're in complete control.

 

Nope. There doesn't have to be. At least I've never heard about or seen any controls on the instructors side of the truck. What an instructor could do though, if he feels you're going to hit something, is pull the yellow and red knobs locking up the brakes. Not safe but I'm sure it's happened somewhere.