FAILED MY CDL ROAD TEST :(

You are at least equal to me as a driver of big trucks. It's a shame we cannot do a rodeo somewhere to see whose better on the stop watch. I would be the first to say you know how to write about many things it would take me too much to do. The knowledge that is.

I add one more.

The backing part. Once in a while when someone is too heavy on the clutch plate rather fast against the inertia with not enough power or not enough gear the entire tractor would do what I call a bounce house about a foot. It will sink on it's entire suspension and then begin to hop as a entire tractor trying to go back. If it's bad enough you can see the drives try to articulate against the limits of suspension while applying power.

I have started to see this problem in Automatics and don't understand the problem. When we had our Rockwell Meritor Auto in 2001, all we did was set R reverse on paddle with Brake on, release service brake (And clutch... ) she starts moving back at idle. Work the wheel to back it in one move none of that hopping.

 

When I took the articulated license test in 84'(back then you could be grandfathered in if you had someone you worked for sign the waiver, my grandpa wouldn't cause I stopped working for him)the inspector turned out to be someone my uncle gave 500gals of fuel oil on credit to. He told me the only way I could fail is if I ran into a pole and even then he'd think about it, how's that for karma.After we were finished he told me I did well and would have passed anyway.

 

Don't worry about stalling a truck. If coupled to a trailer its better to start off in second. If they make you start off in 4th, lots of throttle is necessary. I stalled many times. Once I forgot that I was on the high side and another time I heard a guy talking about a Billy goat in his truck on the CB. I started laughing going up a hill in North Carolina and missed the gear downshifting. It happens to the best of us. It becomes easier repetition

 

was the billy goat wearing panties?

 

They is them. Therefore, them is they.

 

Therefore anyone but me.

Logic. It's for dinner.