Anyone feel they've been tricked on their road test?

That seems illegal as heck to me. I would be making a complaint about this one.

 

My tester asked me to do two things that I knew were wrong...a lane change thing and told me to go ahead when light turned red. I didn't respond I just did the right thing...I passed. Your responsible for what the vehicle does when in control of it...nobody else but you. You can get some bad info out here on directions. TRUST BUT VERIFY.

 

I havent heard of this and it was never done to me. As far as I know, I'm pretty sure they arent supposed to be giving you illegal instructions as you are required to follow all of their instructions or its an automatic fail. So your situation would have been an automatic fail either way. Now if he just asked you a question about it that a whole other thing. I would complain to his supervisor and then if that doesnt do it, find out who is above that person.

 

Did you question the tester?...If not, good luck on your next try!

 

I got tricked on the pre-trip.....the examiner told me to only check one side of the truck, so I did. I started to check all the lights and he repeated him self only one side. End of the test comes and guess what points docked for not checking the whole truck. Luckily it wasn't enough to fail and in looking back I know realize he meant only do the mechanical checks on one side. Either way I was royally pissed off!!

 

In California, and I assume most every other state, the DMV examiner can never ask you to do something illegal. IMHO you either misunderstood the instruction, or the examiner made a major mistake.

 

welcome to the world of "are you in control of the vehicle and it's proper operation"

they do those things often in all vehicles. it is supposed to make sure you are not so white knuckled nervous that can have a clear thought as to what is right.

you want to drive a bus full of screaming people and have them trust your judgement but you can't even tell one old dude to stuff it because he asked you to do something illegal?

learn from it, do better next time, drop the nerves and trust yourself and your judgement.

 

That sucks, but being from nyc you should have known that no trucks or busses on the parkways ever. I think werner hits a low bridge on the hutch once a month right? Next test youll do fine, just relax.

Edit: Now im thinking, i think small trucks and small busses are allowed on a small section of the gcp and streets like utopia pkwy arent concidered a true parkway. Go to the truck info for nyc thread in the exp. driver part of the forum. It has a link for the official truck route map. You might not have auto failed if it was legal for the vehical you were driving.