- Today, we're going to do the tractor trailer class one,
class E* driver's license test,
and going for the drive.
Stick around, we'll be right back with that information.
Stop before the stop line,
back into first gear and creep forward to see.
It's good.
No steering and gearing.
We stay right over to the right.
Cancel our signal trailers in.
(engine rumbling)
Then we're not going to make that green.
Okay, maybe we are, straight through.
Move around the car signal.
We're going to go over the yellow a little bit.
We're slow down back here.
You go into fourth gear you need to be less
than 20 kilometers now or less than 10 miles an hour.
Stop before the stop line,
just as it rolls under the front of the truck.
We're in fourth back to first.
Watching the other light.
The other is gone.
We're getting ready to go.
Clutch out, holding the break right there.
Got a pedestrian.
Pedestrians attained the curb.
We're going to go into this lane 'cause we are turning right.
We're not going to shift.
We can go around the corner in this.
We stay up right against this side here.
No cars coming on the other side,
come around the corner
and we stay in our lane.
Trailers around, signal left.
Good to go.
Leave our signal along.
We're moving into the left lane
'cause we're going to turn left here.
And we come up when we stop just as a stop line rolls
under the front of the truck.
Leave it in gear.
We should have shifted down to fourth.
We might have lost five points there.
Selector back brain selector down,
Clutch in both hands on the steering wheel.
We're going to drive straight into the intersection
and turn left.
We're going to take up the space over on the traffic island
on the other side.
See the traffic coming to a stop over there
and we are ready to go.
And I just lost 10 points there.
Steering and gearing.
(engine rumbling)
Climbing a hill here.
So we're just going to leave it in gear.
We got our foot right on the floor.
It's running 1400 RPM which is perfect for a cat.
It'll just pull the hill.
We're just letting off a little bit.
We're going to do 50 kilometers an hour,
30 miles an hour.
We've got to do the speed limit it
for the purposes of doing a road test.
We're gaining on the set of super bees here.
So we're going to get ready to go around them here.
There's no traffic behind us.
That big truck might actually take off
'cause we got to do the speed limit
until we get around the corner here when it goes to 70.
Speed limit's gone to 70.
Stay the top side of the curve.
So we don't drop over into the other lane there.
We got to a car behind us.
We'll just let the cars go past us.
I split half a year there
and I'm too close to this car here.
This big truck here,
I'm going to go around.
And that was a rough shift
but would only lose some points for that.
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to make this video possible.
They have five locations throughout the Okanagan Valley.
You can rent everything from pulls the delineators
that I use.
Small engine equipment and this huge boom you'll see back
on the trailer here.
So check out Nor-val and rent from them
because there are great advantages
to renting as opposed to owning a utility trailer
for example, you don't have to store it
and you don't have to maintain it.
Cheaper to hire
if we're only using it a couple of times a year.
Check out Nor-val.
(engine rumbling)
We got a car on the side here.
We're just going to stay over for the left
as much as we can without moving into the other lane.
We've got another hill coming up.
We're going to have to climb the hill.
We're below 70.
So we're going to turn on our four
to indicate the traffic behind us that we're going slow.
We're going to have to break a little bit to keep our speed
otherwise it's going to roll down the hill.
And just intermittent breaking, hard breaking.
Bring the speed down two or three miles an hour
and then break again underneath.
That way it gives air time to run over the brakes
and cool the brakes down.
Okay, signal to the left.
We're going to move into the left lane.
Nobody there we start shifting down.
We bring our RPMs right down to 900 RPM.
Into the turning lane.
And we're going to stop
so we can get a run at the gap here.
And again, I lost five points
'cause I didn't shift down to fourth gear.
I only went to fifth.
Our gap is coming.
Stay out to the right.
Trailers around.
Stay right at the top side of the curve.
Cancel the signal.
60 kilometers an hour along here.
Stay top side.
So the trailer doesn't drop over into the other lane.
We're doing 60 kilometers hour.
Breaking as we're coming down the hill to keep our speed.
We're going to go into the pullout here and do our backing
and our hook and unhook.
Signal, down shifting.
Into fourth nice and slow
when you come off the pavement onto the gravel
because it's always going to be rough.
Bud, sweat and tears.
That's what went into this video 'cause it was hot.
And I cut my head
on the end of that angle iron underneath the trailer
Ah, that's going to bleed.
If you want the complete list,
detailed list of what you need to say,
what you need to inspect for the purposes
of passing your pre-trip inspection.
Click up in the corner here
head over to the SmartDrive test website.