Thread: Truck Drivers!!!

Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

I've got all the licences and a bicycle but I'm only 1/64 Indian. Which box do I fit in?

That depends. Which bit is the 1/64 ?

Originally Posted by Corgie Carrier

Bearman, it doesn't take years to work your way up to a MC any more, about 4 years ago the govt changed the rules, due to a supposed driver shortage and now you can walk in at the start of the week with a car licence and walk out at the end with a MC and know nothing about driving on the highway.

Thats not true, from Vicroads info

For Heavy rigid

To apply for this category you must have held an Australian car driver licence for at least 24 months.

You can now jump from Heavy rigid to Multi combo...

To apply for this category you must have held an Australian driver licence to drive a Heavy Combination vehicle or a Heavy Rigid vehicle for a period of at least 12 months and have completed a driver training course approved by VicRoads.

See
Heavy vehicle licence categories

https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/lice...nce-categories

Back in the day when i got my HC truck licence i was still a probationary driver no P plates .
You only had to be off P plates and i got my HC licence after about 3 months of lessons.
Does that make me Punjabi truck driver

Originally Posted by rangieman

Back in the day when i got my HC truck licence i was still a probationary driver no P plates .
You only had to be off P plates and i got my HC licence after about 3 months of lessons.
Does that make me Punjabi truck driver

Hell yes, you could be a trainer for them!!

Originally Posted by kogvos

That depends. Which bit is the 1/64 ?

It's the bit that forces me to eat hot tucker.

When I got my HC, then it was a class 5, you had to be 21 years of age.
I was tested by the Head Honcho at Parramatta Registry. I thought I had failed because I had to have two bites at backing it up a driveway and I smoked all the tyres when a clown pulled out in front of us. Missed him by that much. I got a gold star instead.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

It was an interesting day when I converted my HC from army to civvy....

Cant do it you have to "evolve" your license...

OK, can I get your driving tester to come out and test me for HR first?

sure.

He comes out and there parked in the carpark sits an R series with a 20T and a pair of buckets..

"sorry mate I cant assess you, I dont have a trailer ticket"
"its ok I cant qualify for that, Im just here for HR assessment"
"but you've got a trailer on"
"I'll just drive like its there and you can pretend I dont have it on"
"no I better go get someone who can supervise with a trailer on"

"how are you going to get that out of here?"
"Drive it"
"you cant" out comes my blue book
"no as in you cant just drive out of here, theres no exit that way"
"its got reverse"
"you can reverse that around an Sbend?"
"get in"

2 minutes worth of reverse later and exactly 1 gear change into second.

"you have to go back"
"how come"
"you double clutched, Im not authorised to certify for non syncro gearboxes"

End of the day they gave me HC... but I had to drive with P plates because my old paper license didnt appear on the system.

DAMM!! You had a hard time

I went into Paramatta rta and told them I wanted to change my army license endorsements to my civvy one. They asked if I could prove what the classes were on the army license, I turned it over and it was all printed on the back.

He went away and came back five minutes later with my new license with the class 5 endorsement on it. Done!!

Originally Posted by roverv8

Thats not true, from Vicroads info

For Heavy rigid

To apply for this category you must have held an Australian car driver licence for at least 24 months.

You can now jump from Heavy rigid to Multi combo...

To apply for this category you must have held an Australian driver licence to drive a Heavy Combination vehicle or a Heavy Rigid vehicle for a period of at least 12 months and have completed a driver training course approved by VicRoads.

See
Heavy vehicle licence categories

https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/lice...nce-categories

That is the way it used to be, was changed years ago, they obviously haven't changed the web site.

Originally Posted by rangieman

Back in the day when i got my HC truck licence i was still a probationary driver no P plates .
You only had to be off P plates and i got my HC licence after about 3 months of lessons.
Does that make me Punjabi truck driver

You took lessons! That makes you an expert compared to most of them.