Failed the road test for 2ND time

Ya know I bet thats true. They sure did lower the standerds alot to fill the seats now days.

 

Good luck with it, lots of good advice

But I've got to throw this in, just imagine if it was a real test, the road test is easy.

Yeah I get some people struggle but it is too easy.

 

How very Zen of you.

 

Like wile for me d's.
It's all I ever wanted to do since i was little. Bought a truck figured it all out by myself. I'm very proud of that. Not many of us left now.

 

Sir, nerves?

Wait until you up along the Bitter Root range in Wyoming a few minutes from Sheridan fighting 3 feet of drifted snow over split ice below that. It will take a while to get there.

You are about to engage in a journey of a life time. Most people are content to sit on the porch or stare at a office cubicle for 40 years and not travel. This is a Awesome Nation and there are many possibilities once you get away from the Smurfs on both coasts.

 

My first time behind the wheel was fresh with a permit I drove a 40' moving van with my brother in '77. He turned the wheel over to me in Pendleton, OR headed eastbound on I-84. Cabbage Hill was under construction, with concrete barriers on both sides, narrow lanes, trying to figure out the concept of not using the clutch, missing gears, and FREAKED OUT I would either hit a wall or a passing truck. I survived. Drove off and on for another three years, then went off to have a career using my college degree.

Fast forward to '12. My business failing I got back into driving with my brother, pulling a 53' dry van. New regulations.

With a permit you have three chances to pass the brake test, pretrip, skills test, and road test. I took them using my brother's truck. I failed the brake test my first time. Next time I passed the brake test, but failed the pretrip. The third time I aced the brake test and pretrip, but failed the skills test.

I retook the written test to get another permit and aced it all on my next try. So that's four times trying. I have almost five recent years experience now. Having a blast. I should have stayed with trucking back in '80.

 

ever watch a soccer mom struggle to back up a minivan? Try backing up a double trailer. Backing is hard. One of the things that seemed to help some of my students that were visual learners was to get a toy truck and trailer, one that was at least somewhat to scale. I'd draw out a backing scenerio on a sheet of paper and make them twist the truck a little bit to back the trailer in. This seemed to really help the more visual learners. It's counter intuitive, you use mirrors that reverse what you see, your steering wheel turns your truck the opposite way from normal, and your truck turning one way makes the trailer turn the other.

 

I dont have a CDL...but I can tell you I know how you feel. My CDL classes were so quick that by the end, I was not ready (unlike you). Obviously I didnt keep at it, so hard for me to say "keep trying". Wish I had, though. Good luck, if you continue trying.

 

2015 & over-educated (BA in Psychology, minor in Philosophy, Grad Certificate as a Mental Health Rehab Tech in Maine.)

But, man - there isn't a job I'd rather do. I work alone, don't have to push paper or attempt to manage a group dynamics allotment of stupidity and ineptitude. (The running joke is 'flip burgers'.... what if you can't be taught to flip burgers without being a ####ing ###-hole the whole time?.... I'm surprised some people have even been house-broken. Honestly. It's not a skill problem; it's a personality problem.)

Working vampire, all I have to be wary of is the wildlife & the drunks. Beyond that...... I've seldom a concern.

In short: I think I hate people and their problems. I'd rather deal with a machine that most people can't fathom.

 

It's hard yea.

Not as hard as to decide how you are going to come down the hay slope away from the barn and still make enough traction in the grass and snow to turn away from the neighbor's fence you probably will destroy.