Failed the road test for 2ND time

Just try to breathe. Stay calm and keep a level head, if possible. Use the "get out and look" when needed, and to help calm you down.

You got it!

 

Some foodservice companies hire drivers with only the cdl permit. They give you 90 days to get the hard copy cdl and your driving training is OJT with another driver. Two people to a truck running teams and probably home several times a week.
These jobs sometimes aren't listed on the foodservice companies websites, but they're there. You have to apply for "Driver Associate" or "Driver Helper."
You can apply online:
Sygma Network
Reinhart Foodservice
McLane Foodservice
Gordon Foodservice
Not all terminals hire "Driver Helpers" or "Driver Associates" but most do.

 

Getting the cdl is only the beginning and the easiest part... take your time doing manoeuvres and try to relax that helps the most

 

Backing up is one if the hardest things we do. Even more so when your struggling g to grasp the concept. I'm not skilled enough to offer advise but I can offer encouragement, none of us here started out perfect. Your get past this. Once you do you will thi k hmm that ain't to hard I guesse. Then the real fun begins

 

I'll encourage you.

You are going to drive a very large tonka truck toy. It's a very fun activity. Someone wants a ride in the thing and write a song about your prowess in the city traffic and dock backing.

Does that help any? Do you ever have fun driving a big rig? Remember?

And boy, once you do get that precious license... your real schooling and problems are beginning. Hang in there.

 

When i learned backing, i put my hand at bottom of steering wheel and if i wanted the trailer to move to the left i moved the steering wheel to the left. Move the trailer to the right turm wheel to the right. This worked for me until my brain was acclimated to articulated vehicles. Also, staging your equipment properly will result in an easier backup. Practice, practice, practice.

 

Also to further help your thinking in backing, setting up is good. I think Scottie has a video from a really bad set up that was done too weakly and without ownership of the space in between trucks. It was a bad backup doomed from the start.

What I do is usually add enough wheel (Steering) until it reaches the stop all the way over, start rolling backwards (For me on the top of the wheel it's all the way to the right prior to backing on the sight side (Left)

As the trailer rolls then begins to pivot (You can see the decrease in rotational speed of the trailer tandems, then they will almost go forward and backwards at the same time. Just before they do that you unwind that wheel and continue backing. Your tractor is a giant front axle like a car.

Does that make sense?

Gentran gave you a very good alternative just in case my writing here confuses. It is not my goal to confuse newbies. Ive done enough of that over the years.

 

I am going through school now. I have found I have a bad backing day, what I do is stop the truck, and go back to the basics, slow down, and if it takes me twice as long because I am stopping at every turn of the wheel, so be it. It is not a race about whipping it where you want it. Take a deep breath, and if you need to stop and think about it, do it. I know instructors like to see you back and stay in motion at an idle, but as my instructor said, if I need to stop, stop, the end goal is passing the test.

 

Why don't you just give the examiner a $100 bill.I think that how several of the drivers on the road now get there license