Students that can't drive manuals?

Per FMCSA it is not up to the States. If you test in Auto, you are restricted to autos. Of course, we also have feferal immigration and drug laws, see how well those are enforced.

 

please check out letter "E" here...........

www.fmcsa.dot.gov/registration/commercial-drivers-license/drivers


needless to say, why have any such restriction..???

seems to me, with such a restriction, one is dead in the water from leaving an employer they hate, all because they were too stupid to be tested in a manual transmissioned truck.

or as some of us WILL SAY later on to them.......
Hey, no my prooblem mahn....

 

then maybe i should start a ruckus in the Capital to make sure all states get ,on board.

 

there IS a difference in truck and car transmissions.

but at the very least, you have "some idea"

 

It is honestly easier on driving school instructors if you have never driven a stick. No bad habits to fix.

 

I was kind of thinking the same thing! You don't feather the clutch on a big truck like you do on a 4 wheeler. Seems like it would be easier to learn to use a clutch in a big truck anyway. I learned on a farm tractor and remember it was easier than the pickup, and by the time I drove the pickup I already had a good feel for how to use the clutch.

 

true, but at the very least, if the instructor yells out, "throw in the clutch, throw in the clutch" because a student hasn't any idea on what to do if the truck continues to crawl away, then "some knowledge" of breaking the power helps.

 

Yeah any CDL school will give you the confidence to drive a stick. Downshifting is always a bit challenging but will take practice of course. It's all about watching your RPMs and knowing the range with the truck you are assigned.

 

That depends...I had a classmate in cdl school that broke a driveshaft unjointed on a truck because he did not know he had to push in the clutch when stopping with the brakes....brand new ujoint. And had a classmate that did not understand the concept of double clutching...he would push in the clutch, let it out, and then push it in again and then shift.......some experience with clutches would have benefitted both of these student drivers, for sure.

 

I had 2 classmates did know why a truck had a clutch or how it functioned. One guy broke a brand new ujoint hitting the brakes and not pushing in the clutch.