asommerville
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And I passed yahoo and thank goodness very happy right now!!
Mine was £300 for test and a days training, I think that's really cheap though!
Well done on passing, you must be so pleased!!!
I am looking to sit mine soon, without much training, so got several questions about the test.
Did you drive on the motorway, and what speed do they expect you to go?
Do you have to provide a trailer for the test and the external mirrors for the examiner to use?
The reversing excercise....been having a nightmare getting the dimensions...I understand the length is 4x combination length of car and trailer. Then 2x length to the cone have to bend around, which is in line with the left hand cone you initially drive to. Then after this cone you reverse back into a bay which is as far over to the left as the 11metre width allows. That makes no sense!!!! Hope it does to someone!
Also you're back wheels of trailer have to be in this hatched box on the ground.....does this mean the rear of the trailer can stick out beyond the cones, as this is what happened when I practised.
I'm sure I will add more questions as I go on!!!
Well done on passing, you must be so pleased!!!
I am looking to sit mine soon, without much training, so got several questions about the test.
Did you drive on the motorway, and what speed do they expect you to go?
Do you have to provide a trailer for the test and the external mirrors for the examiner to use?
The reversing excercise....been having a nightmare getting the dimensions...I understand the length is 4x combination length of car and trailer. Then 2x length to the cone have to bend around, which is in line with the left hand cone you initially drive to. Then after this cone you reverse back into a bay which is as far over to the left as the 11metre width allows. That makes no sense!!!! Hope it does to someone!
Also you're back wheels of trailer have to be in this hatched box on the ground.....does this mean the rear of the trailer can stick out beyond the cones, as this is what happened when I practised.
I'm sure I will add more questions as I go on!!!
Legal to use m'way but rare to do so
Check out post number 1000 in the HHO TOWING CLINIC link below which should answer all your other queries
Most fails are on the road drive not on the reverse or un/coupling and this is due to those taking the test not doing it the way that the DSA want to see them do it = drive in a DSA driving style
This to me is just silly. If you are taking the b+e then you have already passed a road driving test in your car. TBH I don't see the point in the reversing/uncouple exercise either, it isn't like you are likely to be a danger to anyone doing either of these activities, most of the time when doing them you are off road or on private property anyway. I just don't see the point in the whole thing unless there are some statistics that back up the need for an extra test.
Still I have to pay up and suffer it, job creation at its best as far as I can see. I'm just bitter about it haha!
Hmm my instructor wouldn't let me use own vehicle and trailer. He also told me he would only do full days of training, all I wanted was some guidance with the reversing, happy that my driving is up to scratch. Still I looked around and all the instructors in this area said the same. Not happy about it. I want to see statistics that show there was a problem with trailer accidents before they made you take a test and that now it is in force there are less. I have asked a few instructors and none could give me answers. Costing me a fortune just to tow my horse, whereas I drive a tractor and artic trailer for a living perfectly legally, much much larger, heavier and only 5mph slower.
I went to a reversing clinic today and the instructor there said I can NOT use my own car in the test as it wouldn't be insured as I don't have the license. I explained that my ins company are aware I am a provisional towing driver, but he said in the test the examiner would not be insured to be the supervisor of the driving and because not passed would have no insurance. Yet company I had assessment with said I could use my car. So what is right? Apparently there is a box about insurance at top of test sheet. So how do people that go for it get round this?
Anyone clarify this insurance stuff?! I am confused and deflated!!!!
The instructor who said you could not use your vehicle was LYING in order to get you to pay for the use of their set up
Mine was £300 for test and a days training, I think that's really cheap though!
Why, would you think that cheap? I have a son who passed his tractor test at 16 years, can drive legally huge / massive tractors and silage trailers - even a combine harvester - but from his Agric min wage has to find circa £300 to get a slip of paper that says he can tow his fathers cattle to market - or his own horse 10 miles up the road to go hunting....madness!
Why, would you think that cheap? I have a son who passed his tractor test at 16 years, can drive legally huge / massive tractors and silage trailers - even a combine harvester - but from his Agric min wage has to find circa £300 to get a slip of paper that says he can tow his fathers cattle to market - or his own horse 10 miles up the road to go hunting....madness!
Yayyy!! Thanks ROG, was going to PM you about that one. I wondered how those who don't go through lessons do it!! Bloomin cheeky though isn't it....another reason I'm put off lessons...do an assessment and say you need more than you do etc!
Plus there is nothing like driving your own car, used to it, comfortable in it, etc. I hated driving his for the 10mins I did today (which I drove an hour for, not happy!)
I asked if I could use my car and trailer and I was told not unless I put extra mirrors on the car and trailer, I don't think your instructor was lying