Just some of the stupid things I see

well personally I don't feel that someone that has never driven a big rig a day in their lives is qualified to test me on how to drive one. But I guess this falls under the ground of "those that can't do teach"

 

But there are those that also have not driven one that will give you a ticket for your driving skills.

 

I was just pointing this out to the other guy.


It does not bother me either way.

 

The only thing that bothers me is that some states have turned the inspections into money sources.

I pull RV's for a living and now certain states are concerned where I slept last night.

 

I was a 3rd party tester for the state of Utah.
We could test any class that required a commercial licence regardless if we had that licence ourselves.
Now the state testers were not required to hold a commercial licence.
When we were being taught how to test there were state people there teaching us who held no licence & new state testers being taught also with no commercial licences.

This being said, I believe that as 3rd party testers we were safer because we knew before the person being tested had done a major screw up in a dangerous way and could prevent damage to others like turning short n running over a car, or even forgetting the trailer is attached.

Also I remember the state guy saying if something happens while the state guys r testing it's all the drivers fault, ie accident, auto fail can stop test, they then ask driver to park on side of road and call for a ride back to the DMV.

 

Not going to say all of them, but it amazing just how little some testers do know about commercial vehicles.

Been driving commercial vehicles since 1998, and had a class A since 2000. Just retested for a Class B a couple months back so I could get my passenger endorsement.

Poor girl testing me had no clue how to handle me. She couldn't even begin to keep up with me on the pre-trip and missed several items that I checked, I think because she had never seen anyone before that actually knew how to do one properly and didn't just memorize off a paper. I argued a few things that she asked me to do, explaining how certain systems in a truck work, until she realized that I knew more than her paper and just marked me correct. By the time the road test came around, she had given up, pretty much just stopped watching me and gave me 100% on it.

It also took two supervisors to figure out how to give me a proper license. Confused the hell out of them that I just tested for a Class B, yet they needed to keep me as a Class AM.

 

I know at the school I went to we had one guy that was ex-trucker, ex-dot, now instructor. He told me that a lot of dot are ex-truckers. When questioned why he thought that was. he said "takes a thief to catch a thief". I also know that flordia requires all testers to have their cdl because if the law that states a cdl holder must be in the truck

 

With the way flatbeds are built today you can't tell how much weight they have on, thats why theya re getting older truckdrivers for DOT. My dad got hit up a few years ago while being inspected.