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diggerjones

diggerjones

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Monkeybusiness said:
Yeah, the people who I trained with have a fully marked out reversing bay setup and they get an approved assessor (different to whoever has trained you) to do the test. To be honest they were very thorough with it, and I’m sure they would fail you if you couldn’t do as required. But if you can’t do the basic manoeuvre needed to pass that particular test you probably shouldn’t be on the road in any vehicle!
It is all ridiculous though - you go from a car licence (having potentially never sat behind the wheel of a truck) to taking your test after 3 and a half days of lessons!
I’ll be honest, I didn’t pass first time, and I’m actually pretty glad that I didn’t as I learned a bit more again from the examiner. Plenty do pass first time though apparently, and the instructor reckons they have had several people who were really poor drivers who pass on their first attempt.
I found the artic really easy to drive - the auto box definitely helps with that in a big way though I’d rather have learned in a manual, but that wasn’t available from anywhere I could find. I’ve had a lot of experience driving big kit and done loads of towing over the years so I didn’t go into it from a standing start (and I really enjoy driving which I think helps).
I’m glad I’ve done it and may venture into truck ownership at some point (that was a big reason for getting my licence) - I will probably try and get a few days here and there agency driving just to ‘get my eye in’ (if I ever have time!) but I’m not sure I’d want to drive a truck all day every day.
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Where you loaded. I thought it was odd when I did mine. Go from driving a car to a fully loaded 38t artic after a couple of lessons.
 
Furniss

Furniss

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I thought my boat permis was harder think I scraped through that but never driven a boat before :)
The training /test fee was reembursed by government as you get the right to 12 hours funded courses/education every year and you can store upto 150hrs max.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
doobin said:
Bloke should have been in the seat, operating like that.

Typical third world crap. Just keep pushing forward and then wonder what happened.
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wanted an early finish :rolleyes::ROFLMAO:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
WTF did they not step off? - was only going to end one way :oops:
 
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