On the road with Millis

I failed my road test first time. Went back a week later. Aced it. Nerves got me first time. You'll get it next time man!

 

Improper how?

 

That's bull he should've let you go lol especially if he said you did fine. He Dez Bryanted you it was a catch #### it lol

 

Don't sweat it, you'll get through it. I didn't think that going to the outside lane on that left turn example was a disqualifier, thought that was just a point, kind of like taking a turn to short/wide.

There was a guy who after doing the whole road test yielded slow through a red light making a right turn just before the college. Should have stopped but kept going. You know he cussed himself out up a storm being that close to the finish and hitting an automatic failure. Did fine and passed on the next go around.

 

Man, I am sorry you had this happen today, but you'll be fine. Lesson learned, and move on.

Bill has preached that turn to us, and I hope I don't forget when I take my test. I appreciate you telling us about using the pull ups when we take our skills test. I wasn't aware, as you indicated, that we are not limited to the number of pull ups we can use. I was under the impression that you were allotted 2 pull ups per maneuver, and no more than 10 total pull ups? So if I'm understanding you correctly, we can use as many as we want per maneuver, just no more than 10 total??

 

Never hurts to ask the instructor how your graded. Our trainers weren't allowed to be our testers. We had to swap for instructors who were state qualified for testing.

With the program I went through we got 12 points total. You get 1 pull up 1 GOAL (get out and look) for the 100' straight line. 2 free pull up's and 2 GOAL for the offset and alley dock. Anything beyond the pull ups are points. If you GOAL more than the requirements its an auto fail. If you don't break the first set of cones with the ICC bumper on the trailer you have to return to the starting position. (this can get tricky because students then had to figure out how to re correct from messing up.) Tester could allow the person to pull around and re-setup however those only happened when it was beyond saving.

If you encroach a line at any point you'll get stopped and told to go forward and it'll be counted as 1-2 points (forgot). If you are in a final position encroaching a line and honk your horn that's 10 points. (it happened to someone on the offset. Rear passenger drive tire was on the line.) If your ICC bumper goes over the back of the small box at the end of the lane on your 90 degree alley dock its a major point deduction. Honk your horn with it over the back line its 10 points.

Also common sense, always have your seatbelt on through all portions of the test. Even if you just used a GOAL and hop back up in the cab to honk the horn. Had one disqualified for that.

 

Where did you take your test at?