What if I fail?

good luck on getting a job with anyone most require the program to be atleast 150-160 clock hours. You wasted your money.

 

Most companies do require the 160 hours due to insurance reasons.
Maybe you could get on with a small local company, but even they have insurance restrictions sometimes.
Remember, even with the 160 hour schools, you are still learning.
I talked to a 30 year driver today and he said he is still learning. Never stop.

 

Don't Give Up, Some of us Didn't passs the 1st time around but 2 weeks later retook exam pre-trip, backing skills test, and the road test Just give yourself alot of room when making right hand turns, no one says you have to Hug that Curb!!!....and make sure you look bothways when crossing intersections and when crosssing Railroad Tracks!!

 

Yep but look he has only 10 days training and he will probaly never find anyone willing to hire him.
About hugging the curbs if the turn can be made with out going into oncomming traffic it needs to be done that way or you loose points for crossing the yellow lines too many of those will fail him too. I had alot of turns that were tighter than he:: but I made them just drove up myside of the yellow line and made it. I had some terrible left turns no room and car sitting all the way up on the road that I was turning on but made it alright arround them with not much room to spare.
One other thing that they gat people on is watching the signs I nailed the first one then the second the tester knew that I was watching my mirrors and then asked what sign did we just pass my fault that I missed that one was not looking at signs ahead of me just at the road ahead and mirrors.

 

We got out early last week out of 4 week course, and they made us 'sign' a piece of paper saying that we got 4 weeks (160 hrs) of training!!

 

Some DOT Examiners are a little more strict and abid soly to regulations, but you have to pass the same test in all States

 

I'm curious about the 160 "clock hours". What's that all about? Is that the time you spend in school or behind the wheel? I went to a "3 week" school and spent a total of about 3.5 hours behind the wheel before I took my test. That 3.5 hours included parking skills as well as road driving.

 

Regardless of how it is split up between steering wheel and classroom, they are referring to 160 hours of instruction time over the duration of the course.