Please please I need help in CDL school

Well in that video that instructor continues to tell the student not to press the clutch all the way down, and he also put subtitles in there every time the student did it saying not to push the clutch all the way down.

I can’t publicly call out the school/instructor because of legal issues now. I left the school after the 3rd day…

For clarification, the instructor/school in the video is NOT the same school as the one that I left. I was only linking the video to demonstrate the clutch/brake combo that I asked about in my original post. As mentioned, this schools YouTube videos helped me greatly, because my instructor didn’t teach squat.

 

Ok my bad, (couldn't read the subtitles and had volume down). Do you have another school lined up.

 

They way you describe shifting here it the way my instructor has described it to me. You still cant have the truck in neutral at a stop, if I understand it correctly, the inspector wants to see the driver go through all the gears.

 

And that’s the thing. He was always telling me to shift to neutral then stop, then he’d have me sitting in neutral until right before the light changed and would tell me shift into gear. All of the videos I see online, the instructors have the students stop in gear while holding clutch down.

This guy was such a hack man. He just didn’t want to put wear in his truck and didn’t realize he was causing the wear by not teaching you correctly. I’m so mad but it’s going to hurt him more than me. I started a big S storm.

 

Great video. I will be able to use it at the next school. I bet the whole class fails except 1 guy who was naturally gifted, but he’s going to fail because he’s not double clutching.

 

I don’t double clutch,most drivers don’t.
Use it for starting off or when you stop, then I ease into the gear while rolling to a stop I’m going to take off in, and don’t go all the way to the floor because no need engaging the clutch brake when your stopped and in the correct gear.

 

You have to double clutch for the CDL Exam. The owner/instructor claimed you did not and did not attempt to teach it to us, even though I mentioned it several times.

I was good at downshifting since the 2nd day, and 3rd day I got good at floating once this forum and YouTube videos gave me tips. How you say you stop, is how I saw it on YouTube and how I thought it should be done, but he kept making me go to neutral. My main weakness was stopping because every stop of ANY kind I would go to neutral first, and the dummy would get mad that I wasn’t stopping fast enough when he was making me do it wrong.

The stopping issue messed me up on things like turns and my confidence because I was always worried about it and never would gain too much speed.

 

Bingo. Once I found out that his company was contracted with the school, and it was his 1 and only truck, I knew it was coming but figured because it was an older rig that maybe he would be cool. But all this guy would do is cry and talk junk about his equipment. No company will hire you if you ruin equipment. Get it right or if you keep messing up equipment you need to decide what you want to do. Lol seriously. It’s funny now but I was like Jesus dude, why are you even teaching? Remember I was only there for 3 days lol so he was doing it since day 1. I had to bite my tongue and stop from responding since they had my money.

 

When we did our road test only 1 guy passed out of 4 in the truck. The trucking company school was certified to test drives the same as regular State employee was. We switched truck the day of the road test and even had guy test us from the truck it company office we never seen before. Everyone that passed had same instructor they had every day.

They told me and other driver. Maybe your not cut out to be a truck driver. They had to keep training is unless we quit. So a week later with more training I passed the road road test. The funny part about them telling me I might not be good enough to drive a truck. I'm still driving today and that was a long time ago.

As far as training goes they basically give just enough to get going. They told use once on trainer truck he would show us anything we missed. The trainer did not show me anything much more then they already said in the class room. We spent a lot of time driving in city traffic at the school because that was the hardest part.

They told us if the traffic light turns red we better stop. The said to lock up the brakes if need. We thought they were joking at first, but we locked some of the brakes to stop with the instructor in truck. It was kinda funny but he was happy we stopped. My point is their is no perfect training