Starting with the 2013/2014 school year I will be the full time Driver Education Instructor at Middlebury High School in Vermont. Three years in the making it's nice to know someone besides me thinks I can do this.
Starting with the 2013/2014 school year I will be the full time Driver Education Instructor at Middlebury High School in Vermont. Three years in the making it's nice to know someone besides me thinks I can do this.
wow.. is this going to make you hate driving or kids?
Please, I beg of you to do what you can to eradicate inside wheel grabbing!!!
Oh, and congrats!
Someday I'll post a new job thread.
Someday.
Congrats, looking forward to hearing horror stories!
Two sccv driving instructors, nice. Did you know Paul d got certified this year as well. Congrats!
The_Jed wrote: Please, I beg of you to do what you can to eradicate inside wheel grabbing!!!
My instructor told me to use this technique and hold the wheel at 11:30 and 12:30 (so that your hands touched). At first I thought he was testing me, then I realized he wasn't
Mmadness wrote:The_Jed wrote: Please, I beg of you to do what you can to eradicate inside wheel grabbing!!!My instructor told me to use this technique and hold the wheel at 11:30 and 12:30 (so that your hands touched). At first I thought he was testing me, then I realized he wasn't
I am lost? I know with airbags they are now teaching 3 and 9 so that the bags do not break your arms or cause you to punch yourself when they go off
My new job (which I'm happy to have!!) is nowhere near that cool.
mad_machine wrote:Mmadness wrote:I am lost? I know with airbags they are now teaching 3 and 9 so that the bags do not break your arms or cause you to punch yourself when they go offThe_Jed wrote: Please, I beg of you to do what you can to eradicate inside wheel grabbing!!!My instructor told me to use this technique and hold the wheel at 11:30 and 12:30 (so that your hands touched). At first I thought he was testing me, then I realized he wasn't
3 and 9 I always thought was just "better" than 2 and 10 anyways?
PLEASE start up a co-op deal with a local truck driving school. They might get a couple of new recruits through the exposure but get each kid 15 minutes (at least) of parking lot time driving a big rig.
Oh, how I wish everyone was required to spend even just the littlest amount of time at the wheel of a big rig so that they may learn to respect the size and limitations of these vehicles.
Congrats!
even just a big box truck... say a 24 footer
Yup, I learned to respect trucks and buses after I got a bus/5 ton government commercial licenses in the military.
Congrats on the new job!
JohnRW1621 wrote: PLEASE start up a co-op deal with a local truck driving school. They might get a couple of new recruits through the exposure but get each kid 15 minutes (at least) of parking lot time driving a big rig. Oh, how I wish everyone was required to spend even just the littlest amount of time at the wheel of a big rig so that they may learn to respect the size and limitations of these vehicles. Congrats!
THIS!!! I recently spent a stint with a 26ft Penske box truck driving from Ann Arbor, MI to Washington, D.C. and back. Holy E36 M3 was that eye opening. I've towed with an F250 diesel and 31ft enclosed trailer before so I had some clue. But the Penske rental office let me at the truck with a signature on a piece of paper and that was it. Driving that thing was like no other. I think if every new driver spent an hour of drive time in a box truck, they'd respect bigger trucks a lot more.
EDIT: And congrats!
Way to go.
Auto-X is a great way to show kids how a car responds in emergency or slippery conditions. One day when they're driving down the road and a box of tools falls of the truck in front of them, they'll be ready.
Middlebury High should give you a sign on bonus for setting it up in the empty parking lot out back.
Safety First!
mad_machine wrote:Mmadness wrote:I am lost? I know with airbags they are now teaching 3 and 9 so that the bags do not break your arms or cause you to punch yourself when they go offThe_Jed wrote: Please, I beg of you to do what you can to eradicate inside wheel grabbing!!!My instructor told me to use this technique and hold the wheel at 11:30 and 12:30 (so that your hands touched). At first I thought he was testing me, then I realized he wasn't
I've often wondered if there was any money in opening a private driving academy.
Inside wheel grabbing and clutching around turns are a local epidemic.
In reply to The_Jed:
Probably not. I can drive like that, it's the other idiots that can't. E36 M3 I dropped my fries again
The_Jed wrote:mad_machine wrote:Mmadness wrote:I am lost? I know with airbags they are now teaching 3 and 9 so that the bags do not break your arms or cause you to punch yourself when they go offThe_Jed wrote: Please, I beg of you to do what you can to eradicate inside wheel grabbing!!!My instructor told me to use this technique and hold the wheel at 11:30 and 12:30 (so that your hands touched). At first I thought he was testing me, then I realized he wasn't
the days of non-power assisted steering cars is done. Why would anybody need to grab the inside of the wheel to turn?
wait a min. I drive a car without power steering 
and when you point out that my car's old .. consider that there was a woman at our last 2 a-x's driving a Lotus Elise and it had manual steering
and do you need to grab the wheel like it takes a 1000 ft pounds to turn it?
when I first got it ... you bet ...
not so much now ... while I say that (and my car has all it's weight on the front wheels) the lady I mentioned has "complained" about the manual steering at each a-x, and keep in mind that the front end of her car is very light
Thanks all. Seth--I know about Paul as he's on Facebook!
I explain to my students that if they want to break a wrist keep putting their hand inside the wheel. They don't always get what 16:1 ration means in reverse when the car hits something hard and spins the wheel for them!
from my days of rallying, I do not even put my thumbs inside the wheel
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