Took out a road sign on my CDL road test today...Now what?

After careful thought, the car was the threat not the sign.

IF it pleases the city fathers to be so stupid as to put a sign there and spend money replacing it constantly, oh well.

It's a example of you deciding how it goes. I rather you take a sign out than hit that car. It would have been better if you stopped a minute there in that whole intersection. But eh... you are the driver. You decide what goes. Not me. And that sign had to go. Oh well.

And you happened to have a tester there in the right seat? I would imagine that if the tester had been senior with enough time on that particular job, there isnt anything YOU can do that will bother him or her too much.

My road trip was deep in Glen Burnie in construction no less, walls everywhere. If anyone from Maryland knew anything about Glen Burnie back in the day it's NO place for a big truck.

 

Facts - A driver that runs into things, even incidents, early in his career, tends to do this throughout his career, however long that may be. A driver that doesn't run into things, tends not to run into things.

 

One time I turned my milk tanker into a narrow two lane road with a tight right turn off a standard intersection to access the dairy on that corner. 4 people backed right up except one who chose to be stubborn and stay put. Never mind the light above us. There I am with parking brakes set feet on the dash and smoking a cigerette waiting for a beat cop to show up and clear this problem.

A few minutes the city cop showed up and told Mrs Stubborn Big Mouth to move or be physically with or without the car be removed by heavy wrecker from that spot. By then all 4 roads were snarled but good. All because Mrs Stubborn wont move.

15 minutes later she moved. No rush, not with 40 trucks in two lines waiting to unload on the corner.

Now if I can count the times Ive held up New York City... (Times square once...) I not only be ticketed but made to disappear where my body might be used as part of one of the new sky scraper foundations in cement or something. (Urban Legend) forgetaboutit.

it happens. Everyone will move sooner or later.

 

Buy a rabbits foot.......eat Lucky Charms.......and consume more Black Eyed Peas......you are the most cursed person Ive heard of.......

 

Only you can decide if you are confident enough to become a true professional driver. Mistakes happen and as long as you learned from it you will improve. I believe you did, and you care, so that says much about your character.

Now, truck driving isn't very difficult but it is a skill, one not everybody is capable of performing, nor does everyone have the desire to be a true professional. Perhaps you are seeing what it takes to be a professional driver and are having second thoughts about it as simply a means to increase your income? No shame in that, and better to discover it now than 5 years down the road when you hate everything and everybody on the road!

 

saw your previous post about you didnt know why you failed your pretrip and now this post. only one advice. accept your mistakes and improve yourself. dont doubt the consequences but overcome it

 

It boils down to how bad you want to do it.

The big picture is you didn't hit the car and ran over a sign that's in the wrong place.