What was your CDL-A road test like?

Oh, so that's what "trolling" is. btw, I don't mind a little humor ,once in a while. I trucked with some real characters, and had a gas, and guess what, we still delivered our loads on time and didn't kill anyone. That's part of the trouble today, everybody is too darn serious.

 

Listen, don't worry about what others are writing about your road test, I thought it was pretty good, then again, that was me you were referring too. It was a great experience, wasn't it?

 

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I'm the devil,and solely responsible for all things trollish..
Momma didn't love me,so I drive a truck,and troll forums..
One day I'm gonna be on 20\20 ...
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buy the bigger diapers,they hold more moisture for today's sensitive driver

 

this is a little off subject but why isn't the CDL test drive the same in every state. in 96 when I did mine in WI we had to do straight and allie dock and also go through the motions a of a blown steer last year had to do a refresher in TX and they had to parallel park no blown steer and a lot stuff I learned in school they told the students they would learn with a trainer now my opinion do both and have more things on the road test that the schools will have teach...js

 

At the company school I attended, the examiners were the same instructors we had seen around the school all week. They were all company employees and state-certified third-party examiners.

Not surprisingly, the pass rate was around 95%.

 

sssshhhheezzz, You guys aint got nutin on me.

Way back in January Oh sixteen (2016) I had to do that pretrip with a blind fold. Not only that but 3 state troopers grilling me. One was tasering me if I took more than a second to call out each bolt nut or screw and another had his K9 and he him loose on me a few times if I messed up. Only got 19 stitches.
Not only they had us do straight line, off set and parallel park, but I had to disassemble the entire truck piece by piece, wade across a raging river with killer icebergs, traverse a mountain range going uphill both ways, in 8 feet of snow and reassemble the truck in the middle of I-5.
THEN.... we did a road test across Russia and Afghanistan, The troopers planted road side bombs just to mess with us.

And when we got out CDL in our CDL ceremony, we earned our CDL's by being "bled in" when the governor would stab a Rambo knife in out shoulders and jam that license about 2 inches into the gaping wound. Then we did 6000 push ups.
I hear today's rookies have it much easier than us grizzled vets I tell ya.

(parody folks)

 

Trucking school piled 6 of us into the cabover and sent two trucks to the DMV testing grounds in the late 80's My driving test consisted of barriers two inches to either side almost as high as a man with multipule barrels and traffic lights every few hundred feet. Stop go, work the gears, stop go work the gears some more a few miles out and do it again getting back to the DMV.

We were parallel parkers from school and can park a 18 wheeler inside a space roughly 6 parking meters long within a few inches of the curb where necessary (Ive won some bets doing that in the past.) Offset no problem. Backing? not a issue.

They handed me a class A and told me I have much to learn with a 98 of 100 score. The -2 came from having that 8 speed fuller in reverse by mistake off a light. Fortunately for everyone I did not also roll back more than two inches or hit anyone there.

That was my first and last official state administered road test for the license. Everything since then was grandfathered with a written test in two states that I made home. The more rigid testing came from the companies themselves who stuck a driver in the rig, told me to get going and test drive. We had a test in a freaking minivan with a trainer holding a clipboard and 8 drivers assessing my performance which was less than stellar. Sheesh. If all of them would just #### and leave me be I will get them to the yard without all that drama. LOL.

Since I turned in my CDL, car tests are not applicable to me, im grandfathered with a written and vision test when it comes to renewal, plus taxes to the revenuer and insurance proof.

 

Me no take CDL road test. In 1975 I got my Class 1 Chaueffers license. I was trained during summer vacation from school while spotting trailers at my families produce business in Hunts Point Market. In July of '75, at 21 yrs old, I bobtailed with my uncle to the DMV, drove the officer around the block bobtail, got back, my uncle slipped him $20 and I got my license. 40 years later, 4 million miles and no accidents, I'm still doing this. Oh, then in 1990? They said I needed a CDL, so I turned in my Chaueffers license and got this thing that's still in my wallet.

 

Same reason laws are different in every state.

 

I have never taken a CDL test . I took a chauffeurs license test back in 1979 in Arizona . It was somewhere around 20 questions . There was no driving to the test.

In 1981 I took the test in Illinois and it was a right out of the office lot down a block to the light turn right go out of town 2 miles take a right then another quick right into the rest area and stop . the lady got out and told me now back up until I tell you to stop . That was less than 40 feet straight back . she told me to stop she climbed back in and said lets go back to the office . So 4 left turns back to the office and I was a licensed Illinois truck driver.