Avoid Failing Your CDL Road Test on TURNING (Avoid Curbs) - CDL Driving Academy

hello everyone it's jonathan here founder of driving academy and today we're going to be talking about how not to fail your cdl road test during turns so if you're looking to get your cdl license one of the things that you're going to have to do is pass your cdl road test your road test itself is going to be split into three different parts first part of the test is all about inspecting the truck they're gonna have to know how to inspect both the inside and outside of the vehicle second part of test is actually parking the truck six different ways and third part test actually driving the truck on the road itself that being said we actually have the ability to do all the training for you and all of our students actually get tested at our own third party testing site so if you do have access to that third party testing site then that means we know exactly how to train you to prepare you for that road test but in today's video we're going to talk about how not to automatically fail your test when it comes to the road portion of the test so when it actually comes to the third part of that test and you start driving on the road there's certain things that you just simply can't do because if you do one little mistake there it's considered an automatic fail one of the things that will be an automatic fail is if you run over the curb so what does that actually look like so that means if you're making a turn if you ever been driving a car before you probably have seen a truck track the trailer make a right turn or left turn and run over the curb with his back trailer tires if you do that on the test you're done so in today's video i'm going to be walking you through the step-by-step process on exactly how to avoid all curbs at all costs so the first thing that you do have to understand when it comes to taking your cdl test is that the curb is no good but any line that you want on the street is fair game that means you can cross over yellow lines white lines cell lines dotted lines does not matter you can cross over any of those lines if it's to help you not hit a curve itself so step number one when it comes to making a proper turn to not hit a curve is making sure that you're in the proper portion of your lane which means you want to be in the most right lane if you're making a right turn most left lane if you're making a left turn but make sure you're not all the way up close to the curb because what's going to happen is going to make it harder for you to turn step number two you're going to drive straight and turn late as our instructors like to say and that means simply this you're going to continue to drive straight remember you're not driving a car you can't have you're going to be having a trailer behind you some trailers can be up to 53 feet long behind you which means you have to go even wider on some of those but what you're going to be doing is you're going to kind of imagine what the center point of the intersection is you're going to drive your steering tires which is your front two tires across that imaginary center line before you even start to turn it's going to look super weird the first couple times you do it but you just have to have faith so make sure that you set yourself up correctly you're going to go straight you're looking at the mirror depending on which way you want to turn once your steering tires have crossed that solid imaginary line in the center of that intersection then you start to make your right turn or you start to make your left turn now the next part is super super important you don't want to make a tight turn all the time because if you make a tight turn remember that trailer is going to make a tight turn too and that means you might be hitting that curve whether it's to the right or to the left so it's super super important that you're checking out that mirror so there's two things that you should be looking at you should be looking at the mirror that you're making the turn in so if you're making a right turn look at the right mirror if you're making a left turn look in the left mirror itself don't be looking at the opposite mirror necessarily you should be looking forward if you're to kind of split up the actual percentage wise you should be looking at your mirrors about 60 percent of the time when you're making returns you should look forward about 40 of the time that's right it might sound a little crazy but super important that you watch that trailer and if you're watching that trailer and you have to adjust and go wider then you can always do so too right but if you're not watching it that's where most people do get in trouble when it comes to me giving the actual test as an examiner it always stresses me out when a student runs over the curb at the end of the test where i pull him over and i say okay you failed the test he goes wait why i said because you ran out of the cur ran over the curb he goes what i ran over a curb and that in my mind i'm like you should double fail because you don't even know that you ran over the curb you might be thinking if you've never driven a truck well how does somebody not feel running over a curb because in the car you'll feel everything but in an attractive trailer if the trailer actual tires run over the curb you won't really feel anything inside the tractor itself you always unless you're looking at the mirrors you won't see it so it's super super important that you're checking out those mirrors so that being said if you have to cross over the yellow line or any kind of lines on the street do whatever you got to do avoid that turn and adjust properly and then you're going to get into your lane when you do get when you do complete the turn make sure you're always in the most right lane whether that's making a right turn or left turn always wind up in the most right lane possible because that's where tractor trailers do belong so if you follow those simple steps you will avoid only kind of turns and the main three steps is going to be make sure that you set yourself up correctly make sure you're far enough from the curb but stay inside your lane second step is go straight turn late and then third step super super important check out those mirrors at least sixty percent of the time so you can make the adjustments as needed if you there's a car that's kind of blocking you just wait there and hopefully he can back up and if there's a car way in way ahead just stay and don't attempt to turn until you have some space available for you so i hope this helped you out and if you did watch this video i better not see you on the test failing for the road portion because that means you didn't really listen so i want to make sure that you pass and get your cdo license our mission is to help a million people get on the road to freedom what's more free than driving where you want to go and make more money while you're doing it so give our team a call at 908-525-3609 or check out our virtual 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Channel: Driving Academy | CDL Truck Driving School

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Length: 6min 4sec (364 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 25 2022