Failed Road Test Again (2nd Time)

i went to school with a guy who kept hitting the curb on the first turn out of the yard haha and failed like 3 times. he was actually a really good driver, sometimes the pressure just gets people. even i was pretty nervous which is not something im used to. i was pretty sure i had failed!

 

I think most people, when testing, have a low level of confidence, but not so low they can't perform well enough to pass, we're talking hours of practice, not years...You're working on a license to learn, not a prize for best driver and the testers know that...They're looking for the most basic of skills done safely...

Unless you performed well during training, some of the blame may be on your instructors for letting you test before you were ready...Some people just can't handle pressure and regardless of how well they do in practice, can never seem to get it right when tested, those people usually move on to something else...

You also seem to have self-imposed peripheral pressure which don't help either and those are things nobody can help you with but when you say you have a lack of confidence, I'm thinking you didn't perform well in practice and probably weren't ready to test in the first place...Not everyone is ready when done the normal amount of schooling and they need to find a way to get more time and more proficient...I wish you the best but there really isn't much anyone can say that's going to give you confidence or improve your skills, those have to come from you...Good luck...

 

You say that like you're proud you got away with it. You should have been fired. You should lose your CDL for the rest of your life pal. You kill a man in a wreck that you admit was your fault and you say your glad you didn't go with Werner because they would had fired you? Unbelieveable.

 

It's a federally funded program that is administered by each state. Your unemployment office should have a WIA liaison. There are other programs that are similar to WIA, however, WIA rules say you must be unemployed and eligible for unemployment benefits or have exhausted your benefits. It can not be used education related to your current career path. I.E you can't work with computers and use it to get a degree in computers.

For some reason states don't advertise it exists. I only knew about it because my wife works for the state department that actually pays out the fedeal funds.

 

Just a minor tweak, you don't have to be unemployed...I am self-employed but biz took dive due to recession and although it's still bringing in money, I qualified...I think each state has a different level of income you can be making, it may go down to a county level also...

 

Thanks for the heads up buddy!! I definately qualify..the company I worked for closed its doors with 6 hours notice to me..I heard about it on the evening news... I have received a few blank stares at two different unemployment offices when I mention WIA..and when I leave voice mails at the unemployment office about it..they don't return my calls....nobody wants to talk about it...Mitch Daniels must have got to em...lol

 

The Workforce Investment Act is a FEDERAL program. There are provisions with-in the program to re-train people in industries that are about to lay people off so a company can retain employees instead of laying them off (i.e retraining a factory worker to do office work); however, tuition payments are for the unemployed to get them working again in a field other than the one they just got laid off from.

States can add money to the WIA program, they cannot divert monies from it. It also doesn't prevent states from using the money inappropriately. NC was doing that till the Feds corrected them.

 

If you can´t even straight back, in your mind you´re building this up into something it´s not. You´re defeating yourself mentaly.

This is truck driving. You´re backing a truck. Yes, you need some hand eye coordination but not a surgeons hand eye coordination.

You´re trying to hard. Loosen up. Imagine it has hair around it and put it in big boy.

 

I understand what you're saying but I'm not unemployed and qualified for WIA...

 

http://www.doleta.gov/programs/ETA_default.cfm?#Dislocated

The tuition payments are part of the dislocated worker portion of the WIA provisions. Please note it says "laid off or notified they will be laid off or terminated." Your state has other programs that may be funded by WIA, it not the federal dislocated workers program.