Road test tomorrow, any tips?

Spend about an hour on your pretrip, point out everything to the tester,he or she will be so dazzled by your knowledge of trucks, they won't even notice how you drive. Get a good night's sleep and don't stress, you'll be fine.

 

Don't stop at a green light like I did on my first try

 

Or have a slop box manual in reverse where it should be first. Had a old 73 transtar that liked to do that. -2 points.

 

Or they'll say "you're testing to be a truck driver not a #### mechanic!" like they did to me.

 

I have the priveledge of conducting all of the road tests for new hires at my company. The biggest factor in a road test is that the testees (not testes) not scare the crap out of me. If you scare me so bad that I have to drive back to the yard, you've failed the road test.

 

My tip would be...If you can get it up on 9 wheels on a corner, ala Joie Chitwood, that will impress an examiner.
You'd probably fail the test though..
J/K. Good Luck

 

My advice, go to bed and get a good nights sleep knowing you got this.

 

Some of my testers when I start here and work down by the time I get around and start over from that side top and down point point point point

OK OK OK OK WE AINT GIT ALL &^%$% DAY GIT MOVING>NOAW.

Right we go.

 

So starting out with “hold my beer” don’t cut it

 

What?