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Driver's License... What Vehicle did you use?
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Duce and a quarter! What a ride!
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First trailer I had to back up when I started driving semis was a 22 foot dump trailer. Daily job for a couple of years was backing loads of concrete sand down a 20 foot wide, 100 foot long space between two buildings to dump into a hopper. Longer trailers were a breeze after that. Pretty well mastered blind siding them too.
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You ever listen to the comedian Sinbad talk about the deuce and a quarter? Hilarious stuff!!
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Where I live it's the only way I have ever heard it and two in the neighborhood for many years...
flyerdan
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Like a few have mentioned, I didn't have to take a road test due to a good score in the high school driver ed course. If I recall, I didn't need to take a written test either, the school course was the same and it counted. Just show up and pay, get license. (Driver ed cars were '72 Impalas)
Even when moving to Oregon, it was just take the written and exchange Idaho license for a new OR one.
Even when moving to Oregon, it was just take the written and exchange Idaho license for a new OR one.
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I took the test in my dad's '67 GTO because it had an automatic. The examiner found a way to fail me because he didn't like kids driving hot cars. I went back in mom's Honda Civic and passed. I'd been driving on a permit for a year so the test itself was not hard.
I already had a moto license at that point, which I got on a Kawasaki S3 (one of their two stroke triples, the 400cc one). It had cafe bars which made slow speed manuvering of the test more challenging but not too hard for me. In CA they have you drive around a circle with lines on either side, weave between some cones or paint marks, and come to a stop at an exact point. Maybe a couple other things, it was a while ago.
I already had a moto license at that point, which I got on a Kawasaki S3 (one of their two stroke triples, the 400cc one). It had cafe bars which made slow speed manuvering of the test more challenging but not too hard for me. In CA they have you drive around a circle with lines on either side, weave between some cones or paint marks, and come to a stop at an exact point. Maybe a couple other things, it was a while ago.
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I got grandfathered into the motorcycle license as well. Never had to take a driving test, just written.
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I took my drivers test in my mother's car. A 1972 Chevy Nova 4-door with a 350cid V-8. We made a trip around the block. That one block had a yield sign, a stop sign, and a traffic light.
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Don't remember what I drove for the first test 60 years ago. But I passed that, and all since. Probably 49 Chevy. A simple car, no turn signals or seatbelts (I installed both, later) and not too big.
Relevant here: A couple of years ago, and a few years before that, I failed every question about the cost of fines for various infractions. Passed all the other questions each time, so passed - barely.
Relevant here: A couple of years ago, and a few years before that, I failed every question about the cost of fines for various infractions. Passed all the other questions each time, so passed - barely.
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They ask you about the cost of fines for various infractions?Don't remember what I drove for the first test 60 years ago. But I passed that, and all since. Probably 49 Chevy. A simple car, no turn signals or seatbelts (I installed both, later) and not too big.
Relevant here: A couple of years ago, and a few years before that, I failed every question about the cost of fines for various infractions. Passed all the other questions each time, so passed - barely.
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Here in Indiana, a sample question would be something like:
If you pull up to a stop sign and the corn is too tall to see oncoming traffic, how do you proceed?
If you pull up to a stop sign and the corn is too tall to see oncoming traffic, how do you proceed?
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Yesterday I had someone who thought that someone in front of him stopping for the stop sign was good enough and he followed the car in front of him right on through.
His answer to the corn question would probably be drive through and hope for the best, stop sign be d----ed!
His answer to the corn question would probably be drive through and hope for the best, stop sign be d----ed!
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Several of my most seasoned friends have been tripped up on car seats and texting...
No kids/child car seats and never text... two don't own cell phones
No kids/child car seats and never text... two don't own cell phones
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I forgot that one. I missed the cell phone question before I owned one, I checked Never. The proper answer is it can be used to report an accident or other hazard, as I recall.
I just looked at DMV's sample questions. They no longer ask the cost of fines. But I see a questions where only studying the handbook would prepare you with the right answers. Turn wheels left or right when parking uphill with no curb? I suppose turn right so the car wouldn't block the street if it rolls back, but who knows what DMV wants for that question. Always study the handbook before taking the renewal test!
That question was on my written test way back in 1975. No curb turn them right as you say, with a curb turn them left so that it will stop the car if it starts rolling. How many people even use their parking brake these days? I’ve chased a couple of vehicles down a hill because the driver didn’t get it completely into park... including a brand new car which a salesman’s wife was driving.
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must have been my Dads 90s buick road master. it was as long as by crew cab truck and the back end hung over the rear axle about 6 feet.