TheMissus:
I would stick with where you’re at, the artic is a very different beast, which is the exact reason I went for my C1 in an artic and not W&D.
Ask your school if they will give you additional practice on the couple/uncouple before the new test and maybe even the morning before, you’ve got everything else under control you should get through easy peasy on the next one. I’m not too familiar with W&D coupling apart from observing other drivers taking their tests. There was a Polish girl who had a similar prob on her test but it did drop on the third, but she did have to ram it. That’s what drew my attention as to me with an artic it’s quite a relaxed shove rather than the aggressive bang of a W&D.
You’ll get there, the retest fee is painful but its a lot less than the £800 I paid for my C+E artic retest.
Good luck!
£800 for a re-test, that’s a lot of cash !!!
I thought mine was steep at £200 in 2012 but that did include some extra training!
its alriight saying dont give in now, thats the way but this blatent use of power ■■■■■■ me right off more money the governments way the ■■■■■■■ like these fools that havnt drove a wagon and become assessors ■■■■■■■ the lot of them, good luck scotland breaking away from this hi viz brigade state
I think that the O.P. has had a raw deal here.It looks like a mechanical issue and not down to his error.They used to post up the pass or fail figures for driving tests and it was about the 50% mark.
TheMissus:
I would stick with where you’re at, the artic is a very different beast, which is the exact reason I went for my C1 in an artic and not W&D.
One of the old boys at our place did his class 1 a few years back. Not sure if the criteria is fixed these days, but back then, you could do the yard stuff at the beginning or end of the test.
He’d been out, done his drive, not a single minor.
Came to do the uncouple/recouple, and the brake cable snapped. Test abandoned.
Yard was full of identical trailers. Instructor and pupil asked if the could just swap to another trailer.
Nope. Excercise must be completed with the same tackle throughout.
TheMissus:
I would stick with where you’re at, the artic is a very different beast, which is the exact reason I went for my C1 in an artic and not W&D I’m not too familiar with W&D coupling apart from observing other drivers taking their tests. There was a Polish girl who had a similar prob on her test but it did drop on the third, but she did have to ram it. That’s what drew my attention as to me with an artic it’s quite a relaxed shove rather than the aggressive bang of a W&D
Ideally, set the height so that when you reverse under you literally just scrape the bottom of the pin with the eye which lifts the pin very slightly and releases it which avoids having to bang it hard. However although I do that on a day to day basis, I’m not sure I could do it under test conditions.
