Hi all been a lurker and offered advice where possible, so here’s my dairy and result.
Did my training with MTS in the West Midlands, Scania semi auto.
Day 1… absolute bag of nerves hit around 6 curbs cutting roundabouts you name it, typical car driver… nailed the reverse on this day found that very easy… but felt completely incompetent at this stage.
Day 2 slight improvement but again not great, position was terrible, rushing roundabouts and genuinely rubbish… went home that day thinking what the hell have I done. payed out £2.5k full package with MTS and I’m just not good enough… didn’t sleep the first 2 days as I literally couldn’t switch off, very mentally draining.
Day 3/4 something just clicked and I started driving the way I had been shown. Perfect positions, roundabouts, speed everything just Perfect and again nailed the reverse really enjoyable 2 days felt so much more confident…
Day 5 test day… up at 6 am to be at training for 7 my test was at 10:15 wolverhampton test centre… another guy was on test first so we doubled up… was very nervous at this time, other guy drove to reverse pad, again nerves but was nice to see another candidate drive and pick his faults! ( not many I might add) on to my drive to the test centre, felt confident but nerves but ok! Sat listening to all the car instructors moaning about pupils, how bad they are at driving etc… thought I can’t listen to this I’m off for a ■■■…! See my other candidate drive back in, he looked happy, he did his reverse last as test centre was busy… he drives up to the cones starts the reverse… absolute perfection… slowly coming back to the yellow box… we could see there was way to much room at the back, he opened the cab door, at this point we thought great, he’s taking a walk to the back of the truck to check how far back he was… wrong… he got out shut the door and looked from that position… didn’t walk back… he entered the cab and told the examiner he was happy… wrong… no where near… fail with 3 minors. Absolutely gutted for him, made me more nervous seeing this…
So next up is me… nailed the reverse perfect, on to the road, had a great drive, weather conditions perfect, traffic flow perfect and a really nice examiner that put me at ease straight away… felt confident and thought this is going ok…! Following the signs back to wolverhampton I realised we are heading back and couldn’t believe how quick it had gone, I was thinking just don’t mess up now and I think it’s a pass, but also thinking maybe I have failed! The human brain hey!
Anyway arrived back at the rest centre and I’m told congratulations you have passed… 3 minors I’m absolutely over the moon… and to the big one next… sorry the training log isn’t as detailed as some but I found reading them over my training helped me massively to see others having bad days, terrible drives etc so if mine can help anyone, I’m happy with that… but please take the advice on the reverse and go and check your marker… seeing that guy fail on that was unbelievable…
