Next up.......C+E

NEW AND WANNABE DRIVERS (INTERACTIVE)
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So I passed my Cat C last month with Ritchies in Glasgow with only a couple of minors.
Today I’ve gone in and executed stage 2 of my plan and booked myself onto the C+E course.

Questions for those who have gone before me:

  1. Is there anything I need to watch out for?

  2. Has aynyone else on here done their C+E with Ritchies and what was your thoughts.

Thanks,
Rab

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I done both classes at Ritchies and passed both first time with a couple of minors.
Was a good experience all round for me. Trainer had the patience of a saint as the boy training along side me was hopeless.
Routes are the same they’ll be familiar when you’re out.

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Watch out for the extra length (ooo errr) :laughing:

The test is the same so you know what to expect from that.

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I found C + E I’d need all the mirrors most of the time,I find less need for the wide angle view in rigid but watching your trailer wheels on some turns in artic can be a fair way off to one side. Having said that I had a bad patch on the reversing manoeuvre, which I put down to using the wide angle view to see my steering position of osf wheel then trying to carry on with that mirror to align to the b and c cones, when I went back to the main view mirror was much easier as the perspective is less skewed.

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njl:
I found C + E I’d need all the mirrors most of the time,I find less need for the wide angle view in rigid but watching your trailer wheels on some turns in artic can be a fair way off to one side. Having said that I had a bad patch on the reversing manoeuvre, which I put down to using the wide angle view to see my steering position of osf wheel then trying to carry on with that mirror to align to the b and c cones, when I went back to the main view mirror was much easier as the perspective is less skewed.

I done that initially as well njl on the Cat C. Problem was resolved there and then.

So apart from the obvious extra length, are the test routes etc the same?

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The only thing that is different is the size of the box for the reverse, to accomodate the extra length.

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