Road test examiner will follow in second vehicle?

I guess you missed this part?

Road Test:

All applicants will be required to have a licensed driver that holds a valid CDL with same class and endorsements as the applicant, for the Road Test portion of the exam. Please be advised your appointment will be cancelled if you cannot provide a driver for the test, and rescheduling is subject to the DMV’s availability.

 

Hence the speaker requirement?
You set it on the dash, or wherever you can hear it from.
Not handheld that way.

I wonder if the remote tester will be yelling at the driver to speak louder because the phone is too far away.


(Will the insanity end any time soon?)

 

That's why I'm accepting applications. I figure a pass should be worth about $1000.

 

If I remember right, lol, when I took my bike test back in '83, they followed in a car and it was one honk for right turn, two honks for left turn.

 

"I am now double clutching" spoken into the phone while they float the gears. "I am now downshifting to 5th", while standing on the clutch and coasting to the light (or just coasting in neutral.

 

I took my motorcycle test at 15 in 1975. Examiner took a magic marker (it was before the days of sharpies) and put one slash on my left hand, two slashes on my right and told me of I hear one honk, turn left and for two, turn right. He rode behind me in my Mom's car with her driving. We made a couple of blocks around the DMV and I passed. Afterward, rode my motorcycle to school with my new paper license. Plastic one showed up in the mail a couple weeks later.

 

Really?

Mine was stuff like...
Drive through those curved lines as fast as you can, then hit the brakes as fast as you can at that line and stop with the front wheel in that box.
Accelerate as hard as you can to that line, and when you see the light (left or right) swerve around that line without crossing it.

In my Honda CRX, or the Fiat X1/9, even the TR-7 or MG Midget, it would have been fun.
Stuff like that on a motorcycle, or in a truck? No.

 

I hail from a tiny town on the Texas coast called Port Lavaca. Population around 10,000. DMV was only open there one day a week. It was a laid back little place when the world was quite different than it is today. Only reason I never got in any real trouble was because the police knew us and we knew them. Got caught out underage drinking and driving several times and simply got a police escort home. Stuff like that simply wouldn't happen in this day and age.

 

I guess we are getting old when we can quote from 'the good old days'.

Compared to today, everything was laid back, back then.
We really knew how to live, back then.

 

BTW, my first street legal motorcycle and the one I got my license witn was a 1972 Honda SL 100.
And, although it is easy to reminisce about 'the good ole days'. I tend to think in many ways the world is better today than back then. Just my opinion. But, cars are far safer, pollute a heck of a lot less. Racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. are still around, but things are better than they were. Having a daughter, I'm glad she has more options than existed back then. Stuff like that. World's still messed up, but, it was back then too. Often times, we just weren't as aware of it as now.