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<p>[QUOTE="quitter, post: 4088357, member: 79776"]Well that is a sad statement, of course you are meant to do this if it is what you want to do. (unless you are some kind of alcoholic druggie with medical problems or something.) </p><p><br /></p><p>The brake test and the pre-trip at my school was nearly 100% passed -- in fact that had a script written -- all you really had to do was memorize it --- to me it was like getting a part in a high school play or something, and in the process of learning the "script" you would actually learn how and why you needed to do those things. The school also had a mean guy (more play acting, he really was not a mean guy but no one really knew it at the time) that you had to do the trial pretrip air-brake test. If you could pass that guy, the DMV guy seemed like a picnic. I would describe the driving part as kind of fun --- my school used a truck with a short trailer and a syncro transmission. So piece of cake the DMV -- maybe your school did not do the things needed to make you pass the test --- but I bet if you really want it you can do it so do not give up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="quitter, post: 4088357, member: 79776"]Well that is a sad statement, of course you are meant to do this if it is what you want to do. (unless you are some kind of alcoholic druggie with medical problems or something.) The brake test and the pre-trip at my school was nearly 100% passed -- in fact that had a script written -- all you really had to do was memorize it --- to me it was like getting a part in a high school play or something, and in the process of learning the "script" you would actually learn how and why you needed to do those things. The school also had a mean guy (more play acting, he really was not a mean guy but no one really knew it at the time) that you had to do the trial pretrip air-brake test. If you could pass that guy, the DMV guy seemed like a picnic. I would describe the driving part as kind of fun --- my school used a truck with a short trailer and a syncro transmission. So piece of cake the DMV -- maybe your school did not do the things needed to make you pass the test --- but I bet if you really want it you can do it so do not give up.[/QUOTE]
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