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Originally Posted by bigpapa7272
Well Heres the update. I passed maneuvers with only 5 points. yay I went to the road test,
tell me if you think this is "danergous action" I was making a left turn at an interesection My tractor was halfway in the intersection, and the light turned yellow, so since if i would stop in the middle of the intersection i would be blocking traffic i started finishing my turn.the traffic coming the other direction gets the green and im still in the process of finishing my turn. So i stopped to avoid any of them hitting me. The examiner/school instructor failed me on the road test citing a dangerous action. There was a state trooper there sitting at the intersection, and seriously if it was that dangerous of an action i think he would have pulled me over and written me a ticket.
I am really staring to believe the school is trying to make money off of me now
my retest this morning was $100 and the retest on saturday is gonna cost me a 100.
the even worse thing is the school instructors know my abilities and still fail me.
once i get my cdl from this "school" I am staying far far away from them. Why would a school give me high marks on practical tests on road driving, and maneuvers and still fail me????
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yes that would be considered a dangerous action. you must yield to oncoming traffic when making a left turn. if a car approaches and intersection while you are making that turn and has to yield to you then you are not operating in a safe manner. If you must stop your turn to allow a car to pass then the same is true. you did not allow yourself enough time. The tester is looking to see if you can operate a CMV safely. he doesn't expect you to be perfect but you must be safe. in other words cautious. He is looking to see if you are nervous or scared and if you can operate safely with you limited experience. you can't do the same things you do in your car. the CMV is just to big. you can't sit in an intersection when a light is yellow. you are expected to be able to judge if you will have enough time to COMPLETE the turn before the light turns Yellow. ( if you saw the light turn yellow then you still had about 60' of truck behind you not even in the intersection yet) like orange guy said. sit at the stop line until you can complete the entire turn with out any traffic approaching or with out the light turning. for test purposes unless you start your turn when the light turns green you will probably be waiting it out. it is better to sit through a green light waiting then to be aggressive and try to force a turn.
as for the guy knowing you know how to drive because he trained you, you can't look at it that way. when you were driving with him before he was telling you how to do it and making sure you were doing it safely. now he is looking to see if you broke those "car" habits and are actually driving the CMV safely. unfortunately in a stressful situation you will revert back to the "car" habits so you have to be mindful of that all through the test.
Take a deep breath, relax and don't put to much pressure on yourself. you are one test away from having your CDl. don't give up!!