The tragedy of a failed driving test....

[thecfarm]

How trivial a failed drivers test will look like in 20 years.  ;D  Most people will pass even if it takes,2 or 3 times.
Brucer,do you think the instructor knew she could not parallel park?  ;) I failed my the first time. Got in the wrong lane to make a right hand turn. In my neck of the woods we was still driving on dirt,what is this black stuff and paint and cars 3 wide?   :D

[timerover51]

Moose , that is funny.

I passed written and driving first time .  I got a B lisense so I could drive the grain truck.
Years later I needed a C lisence to drive the tandem that my sandblaste was mounted on.I took  the written test  aced that  . The tester was sorta disapointed , He said everyone misses the one about using flares for the disabled gas truck. I took the gas mans truck in for my driving test . He would not do the test because the passenger seat was a cardboard box of oil cans. The guy had to have a fancy seat.  The gas man was upset , He said that we could use one of the other trucks the next week.  We got there and the tester said toot the horn .  Horn did not toot . Tester said we can't take a test in an unsafe truck .  We fixed the horn in the lot , corroded connection. Went back in and the tester said that he was off in an hour and we could not take the test.  I was POed my gas man was POed .  I drove my tandem for 15 years without the C class lisence

As soon as I read your post, I thought, that sure sounds like Illinois.  Then I looked at where you lived, and sure enough, Illinois.

[Brucer]

... Brucer,do you think the instructor knew she could not parallel park? ...

Had to have known. Maybe not the first time but it would have been obvious after the second try. He made her try 5 times, then terminated the test.

[mometal77]

I flunked about six times and when i got the "man" i told him what was up.  He looked at me said we have been having that issue with other men not passing as well.  Now here I have a CDL class A told by one company I was the safest driver they have had in a long time.

[Kansas]

Here in Kansas a standard license doesn't require a driving test if you have taken Drivers ed. I believe I had a restricted farm permit at the age of 15.

When I worked for the farmers Coop, most of us just had regular licenses, even though we delivered feed, anhydrous, fertilizer. Then the CDL rules came along. So we all went and got chauffers licenses, or something like that. Then all we had to do was take the written tests for the CDL's when it was time.  I screwed up; I didn't realize I could have been grandfathered in with a class C license without driving. Got a class B instead. We never had to drive for the CDL's.

When I was 16 and got my regular license I had the motorcycle permit added to it. At that point you didn't have to drive. About a year later they changed that. Now you have to drive a motorcycle for them. I was grandfathered in, and have kept it all these years, even though I haven't rode for a long time.

[sawguy21]

Interesting that you were grandfathered on m/c. I was originally licensed to operate one on my regular permit, the rules were changed five or six years later. If I had been riding at the time I could have kept the endorsement, when I got a bike years later I had to jump through the hoops.

[isawlogs]

  I never went for my drivers licence till I was 18. We learned to drive on the old grey ferguson at home, then as soon as the legs grew the operator was promoted to bigger machinery. Soon it was the pick-up to get from one field to another or to get tools. Never gave the permit a thought, till my insurance compagnie asked about my driver's licence, sheesh I had none to give them. I went and got my class 1 ( CDL) that week, actualy I went on my birthday.
  They did not take it too happily that I had a car for the past two years insured with them and not having a licence to drive it  : Different times I guess.

[Taylortractornut]

I started drivin an old AC tractor  dad had when I wasor so and  then about 11 dad had me  plying with  a new JD backhoe he kept with his work crew.     When I was 12 he was  working on the  25 bypass he  had a worker that Bhad an 84 S10 for 1200.    Dad picked it up for a spare car.    Being a 4 speed  dad roade with me a few trips and let me go on the backroads and around the place.    When it broke I had to help fix it.    He let me work off the tab and  when I went to take my driving exam  I got the written down.        What got me was the  the old HWP  officer was anold dried up SOB.     I took the test in my mothers Plymouth reliant K car.     We get to a 4 way stop and the  officer says turn right here.    I stop and  signal for a right turn.   He  said I didnt tell you which way to turn and failed me there.      When  I got back he told mother that  I asked him how to drive.      THat  didnt go over well.   


THe next time  I went it rained no test,   the next time   He said it looked rainy and  hadnt rained for a week.   THen the 3rd time we were  on the test and I was at the same 4 way stop.   It was my turn and I saw a  Mexican tree planter crew in a  crew cab Ford with a camper on back  roaring up to the stop.   I was about to go and  the HWP officer was telling me to  go in a whiny way.     A bout that time the   Tree planters blew through the  stop sign about 45 mph.

I got my liscence after that.     After that I was running a 2 ton dump truck for my brother and dad and later.      Then dad got into the roll off truck business and we got our spare truck a 1972  DM 600 series Mack  steel nose concrete truck.    THe man that brought it to the house told me to get in and start driving. It was an old  2 stick six speed.   I got to driving it back to my neighbors house and turning around   and comming back with me and old white German Sheperd.     Dad took it to the shop and had the old truck stretched  several feet to put a 22 foot roll off bed on it.   

I drove it to the neighbors and have to back it all the way home about a 1/4 mile.   Then after that before they would come home Id load the old dog up in the   passenger side and  drive to the main road and back up the 1/4 mile to the neighbors shifting the truck  throu the 5  oter gears.           I was 18 then and  never went after my CDL because dad sold the business and I  went to school to be a machinist.   After I didnt like working in a factory I went back to cunstruction as an operator and and came back to the landfill and were wer bought out.    THe new job i had to  have CDL and  went and took my CDL written exam.  The next week I showed up with  my Co driver and a friend boom truck.    THe lady told me that  the driving  instructor wouldnt pass anyone that came back a week   after my written.      I told her I would chance it.   We did the walk around and the  I was commended on my knowledge of the truck.
hat.
THen we had to back way down a line of  of cones he said i did better than most at that.   Later I  we were in the middle of the 45 minute ride and he told me he was gonna ask a question that wouldnt affect my test.     He said in a serious voice  How long you been driving a truck without CDL's son.   I looked over and said long time.   He then said no sense in wasting anymore  fuel  you got your CDL's.

[Weekend_Sawyer]

I failed my drivers test at 16 by not stopping at the stopsign at the end of the course.
2 years later I failed my motorcycle test the same way. Sometimes it takes a brick to get information into my head!

Jon

[doctorb]

I know that you've been waiting impatiently for this news, but my daughter passed her driving test today.  So her joy now is my worry.  Still, not a bad benchmark for post #1000!  Who'd a thunk I'd be hangin' around here this long!

[Bandmill Bandit]

I wonder how many people passed the test to drive a horse and buggy/wagon/cutter/buckboard etc? Didnt have time to finish this earlier.

Since we live in the "Cold North Land" we tend to have about "9 months winter time and 3 months poor sledding" as my father in law puts it.

I was raised on the farm and all 3 of my kids at least got their start there .the youngest was 2 when we moved off the farm. All my kids were driving something by the time they were 4 and my son started on the bob cat on my lap at 5. Respect was taught and learned pretty early as they were around and on large equipment from very young ages.

when they hit about 12 to 14 and could reach the controls of my service truck I started teaching ice driving on the lake. First it was just to learn how a vehicle responds on ice and how different temperatures affect the ice you are driving on. Once they could keep it in a straight line in a slide/drift or sliding backwards Once they had that down I started with the pylons and different types of courses so that the could learn to control a sliding vehicle in tighter condition's. at first my wife thought I was nuts but then she finally agreed to come out and watch for a few sessions on fall. When she saw what was happening I and what I was teaching I never heard about it again. I did rear wheel front wheel and 4 wheel drive training on ice with them

My 2 girls passed on their first try and son on second. His test officer was a friend of mine and Son was a good driver but he did a double stop at a blind  corner (huge unkept hedge on the right side with the stop sign sticking out of the top of it) coming into a play ground zone to be sure he was safe and that was an instant fail for some reason. I kind reamed my friend out and took the town by law officer over there and made a stink in the town office about it . 2 days later the hedge was gone. Son drove a week later basically around the block and through the only lights in town and the officer gave him his license and didn't charge him for the second test either.

The driving skills  learned on ice have served them very well and every fall they all 3 head out on the lake for a hour or so of brush up so they are prepared for the ice when it hits. Son has done the same routine with his wife and a lot of their friends (one of whom is a local police officer now) to the point that the local police are talking about a program to actually teach Winter driving skills on ice in late october and november every year. In this country I think it should be a mandatory 3 hour on ice training and 3 hour class room training minimum that should be completed in side the most recent graduated license program training requirements.

Also think training should start a lot younger in off road courses set up for the purpose of training in all sizes of vehicles. Nothing is better then hand on experience behind the wheel of 80,000lbs on 5/6 axles at slow speeds  to just get a small feel of what it means to be in front of or behind one out on that high way.

IMHO ;D     

     

[Mooseherder]

Congratulations!
Now you get to buy her, her dream car. ;D

[Gary_C]

1000 posts already? My but you are a talkative fellow.  :D :D

Congratulations to your daughter on her milestone. It's probably good that she had to learn her drivers license does not come easily.

I went thru the same thing a couple of years ago with one of my grandaughters. I got to take her to practice and to her first (of three) drivers test. A rather worrysome experience but didn't want to worry you with the details. But she is doing fine now.  8)

Just preach defensive driving. There are plenty of nuts on the highways and don't trust any of them.

[pigman]

 Doctorb, congratulations on your daughter giving you something else to worry about.  ;D                                                                                                 

Just preach defensive driving. There are plenty of nuts on the highways and don't trust any of them.

Gary, there you go talking about me again. ;)

[DanG]

Who'd a thunk I'd be hangin' around here this long!

Looks like you're stuck here for the duration, Doc.  When ya gonna buy a sawmill? ;D :D

Congrats to the Daughter.

[doctorb]

When I don't need all my fingers, hands, or limbs. :D

[Gary_C]

Gary, there you go talking about me again. ;)

Sorry pigman but I didn't think you'd notice.  :D :D

[isawlogs]

 Congrats to the daughter Doc, my daughter has had her licence now for 11 years or so , was kinda ruff the first few years . She was going through chemo and wanted a car  :-\  how do ya saye no, anyways , I got her a car and made a course around the lot and told her when she could stop in the hill and take off with out stalling or spinning I would sign the license. She did , I did, then she took drivers ed and got real license. She went through a few hickups and bent a few fenders , but now has been dent free for well over eight years. Tell da truth she did a whole lot better then me .  : :D

[Coon]

But ya gotta remember Marcel, that you've graduated up to fender benders with tractors.   ;)  You're in a completely different ball game. ;D  Everyone tangles with something sooner or later once you've driven long enough. Ya just gotta chalk it up as experience.  ;D