Bad training experience. Dangerous?

First off you need to really relax try and stay as calm as possible this of course comes with experience though the more confident you become the more at ease you'll feel. The key here is your instructor should know if you are ready or not, and whether to go ahead and book a practical test with the DMV. Pay attention to what ever they say as their the experienced ones by all means ask questions if you don't understand something. One place I used to work at had a slogan it said " Its better to ask a silly question then to make a stupid mistake", most important hang in there sometimes people quit when their so close to actually achieving something.

 

48 aint bad.

It's the 34 cents BS you will avoid.

 

Well now... You can whistle blow that into FMCSA and they will review that transmission.

I will NEVER operate a automatic without a manual gear function and NEVER operate a auto that thinks it need input from satellites or god knows what else to do something different than what I want it to do.

If I had a foot, I would drop kick that over teched POS over the moon.

There have been way way too many times where constant power to the drives either maintaining speed, pulling or jacobs braking made all the difference in safety. Yes I played nuetral over drive down grade for laughs once or twice. Gravity speed tops at 145ish my math isnt that good against the stop watch between yardsticks that fast down a 5 mile 6% in nuetral.

 

Being in neutral is INCREASING the amount of dustance it will take you to get stopped. Having to get on the brakes hard makes a jack knife scenario more likely. These are things you should have known as they are part of the general knowlegde test you need to pass to get your permit.

Ecoast is only engaged when you have your foot off the fuel AND off the brake. If you so much as caress the brake pedal it will kick you into one gear lower than it was when ecoast kicked in.

I HATE ecoast. I do not feel safe most times when it kicks in.

I HATE how the AMT transmissions downshift to a stop. I have to use my brakes more and it increases the time/distance to come to a safe stop.


Going back to the mirrors - I have told some of my students not to adjust the convex mirror. They want to adjust it in so they can see more of the trailer as opppsed to what they should be seeing - the road next to them. I have also made my guys adjust the west coast mirror out . I only do this after they have trouble staying in their lane or getting straight in a hole as these are indications that the mirrors are not set correctly.

 

Let us now where your location is? State & nearest city.

 

The reason I ask about your location is so other drivers on here can recommend companies to you. Schools usually push 4 or 5 of the same companies, nationwide. Yes, that's my picture in avatar.

 

In your not realitic two vutton scenario - if I am your instructor I want you to hit the button I tell you to.

I have had many circumstances like you describe where I have told my guy to grab a gear after he dumped it unto neutral. There was plenty of time - if he did as instructed. As an instructor, if I am telling you to do something, it is the safe or easy way to do it. It is a skill you need to learn , he thought you had time to at least make an attempt, so make the attempt. When I got my cdl my instructors did plenty that I didn't like. I figured out WHY they wantedme to do it that way AFTER complying with their instructions.

There are 6 brakes on a tractor, 4 on the trailer, thus when hitting the brakes hard, the tractor will slow faster than the trailer . An experienced driver can feel the trailer pushing in hard brake scenarios.

I can tell you what my experiences have been over the last 8 years of training and you can glean some valuable information. However right now it is not sounding like you are trying to learn from people on here, but looking to vent or for sympathy. I wish you the best, but I'm done.