1st Day.... Doh!

You could have paid the price difference in cash maybe and got into the Super 8. I like super 8's

Now Laquintas... erg.... I bests shut. up. before I get bit by moderators. he he.

My driving test in Maryland back in the 80's was in a place called Glen Burnie on the old Route Two I think at the very big huge DMV there. To properly understand Glen Burnie back in them days before I-97, imagine walls of construction 6 feet high 11 feet apart with a lane in each. And everyone wanting OUT.

here I am sweating and struggling with a old 72 cabover transtar and a 45 foot I think it was, pines trailer maybe or a wabash? Though that offset hell of a construction and back to the DMV. Managed to pass.

On the way home to the school yard to collect the personal vehicle with that shiny class A (80's) I hear one of my female class mates tell us all about the nice drive she had on the other end with parks everywhere and soft music.

Feel like the Dukes Policeman Coal train gnz gnz gnz lol.

 

Oh the thrills of being a green horn. Lol I can smell the burnt clutch from here hahaha. The time will fly before you know it, I'm 7yrs in and still loving it.

 

I actually have some trouble coming out of what I call 5th low which would be the far right side of box and back into N and then all the way across the box into high range 6th which is very close to the drivers seat.

I don't particularly enjoy the 10 speed for that reason, but if I can land that 6th Im good. I prefer the short 9s from Rockwell and the under drives as well as the mack 15's

Sometimes you watch someone come out of 5th low into what is actually 7th high and scratch.. hmmm... *Shrugs.

 

Denver in rush hour is a good test, if you have no bullet holes you passed.

 

And if you have a contact high you took too long.

 

wow you drove down the freeway in a Tractor with a 53' trailer attached Dooh and your trainer said you were great dooh well boy are you in for one big surprise, give us a call after you've been out on the road for another 12 months dooh and let me know how you feel.

 

I had to go to a 3rd party test facility years ago, when CDL's became a requirement. I wasn't grandfathered in.

So I show the instructor a pre trip on an old International day cab, and 48' van trailer. He asked me if I could shift a 10 speed, because they were letting people drive it like a 9 speed, if they wanted. I said I could, and off we went.

I was floating the gears, like I normally did, on this approximately 20 mile 45 minute trip. When we were reentering the yard, he said "ya know, in the book, it says to use the clutch when shifting"....I'm thinking DAMMITTE!! I just failed! when he says "but I drive like you do, and if I see someone can float the gears properly, I don't write it up."

 

@WesternPlains
How was Day 2?