Going way back maybe

old · Jan 29, 2010

So #1 how old where you when you got your first drivers license and #2 how many times have you taken a driving test as in behind the wheel test??
Me got my first license when I was 14 and the driving test was hey I saw you drive up so I know you can drive/ride. I have had a license ever since. As for real driving test that one at 14 and then one when we moved to Missouri back when ever and then the last one when I was trying to get my school bus license. Sort of happy I did not pass that last one but that was not because of driving but because the female dog said to do the pretrip her way not my way. Ya the person doing the test was a female who would not let me do the pre-trip as I was showed how to do it so I messed it up

GeneMO · Jan 29, 2010

I was 16 when I got my first license, and took my one and only test in 1970.

When did I start driving? Lets see, wonder when I could see over the dash? Thinking it was around 9. On the gravel between farms. Generally followed my dad, with him on the H Farmall with the feed wagon.

Gene

Anonymous-0 · Jan 29, 2010

I learned that a old friend was 14 when he drove the school bus. He said he did alot of crazy things to impress the kids on the bus, but never had a accident.

CLTX · Jan 29, 2010

I started driving a tractor (JD "D") before I was six. At 10, I started driving a 1935 Chevrolet 2 ton truck a little. It had mechanical brakes and I once took out a gate. I got my drivers license at age 14 in 1952. That is the only driver's test I have ever taken. I got my commercial license at 18 and a Chauffeur's license about 10 years later(school bus). I only took the written test for the last two.

ILLEFTY · Jan 29, 2010

In Illinois you had to be 16 when I got my license. 2nd driving test was when I upgraded so I could drive truck at 21, 3rd test was to get motorcycle license at 22

confederategeneral · Jan 30, 2010

I never knew you had to have license to drive,may be something i need to check into. General

tiresntracks · Jan 30, 2010

I took a written test at 15 1/2, then a driving test in Mom's car. To get my CDL, I took a bunch of written tests, then a driving test in a Kenworth. I haven't had to take another test since then.

Herbert Johnson · Jan 30, 2010

I took a driving test (cop in the car) in Pontiac, Mi in 1952. I was 17.

john in la · Jan 30, 2010

I took a written test and a road test (DMV in car) at age 16 (1974) to get my first license.

At age 18 I changed this license to one to drive a truck. No test involved.

When the CDL came out I was grandfathered in so I only needed to take the written test. 5 different test.

Today I need to take a written test and be fingerprinted for a federal background check every 4 years because I have a X endorsement on my CDL.

Boy how times have changed.

Spook · Jan 30, 2010

16 in 1971. Had to take it twice, didn't know how to parallel park at first.

fixerupper · Jan 30, 2010

First time to drive I was about ten. I scared dad to death when he let me drive the 49 International KB1 through a gateway. I got it in reverse and away I went backwards for a few feet, the all went well. First license was learner's permit at 14 in 1965. Drivers license was at 16 with a patrol officer who was a golfing buddy of my uncle's.

Chauffere's license for a straight truck came sometime in the seventies then class A CDL when that requirement came in. Flunked the driving test the first time cause I coasted through an intersection while I was frantically trying to find my gear. Old, the tester was a woman and she was tough.

Took the test for double-tripples, tanker and Hazmat just for the challenge, and passed them but now I've dropped the haz-mat. never did need it and I don't want big brother looking over my shoulder.

Oh yeah, I took a motocycle test when it first came out. The examiner didn't know how to run the test yet so me made me drive a little Honda around some cones and passed me. Jim

JDTECH · Jan 30, 2010

Started driving between farms at 12, got my license at 16, grandfathered in on the cdl.

Bspauld · Jan 30, 2010

I got my first license at age 14,In Michigan you could get a farm license at that age. I started driving by myself much younger,My Dad put a Oliver grain bin in the 51 Studebaker pickup and I drove that unloading the wheat while my Dad combined,I was 10 at that time.

El Toro · Jan 30, 2010

I got mine when I was 16 in 1949. When I went to work for the government I had to get a government license after taking another test when I was 18. When I was drafted I had to take another test to get a GI license at Ft Bragg NC. When I was rehired after being furloughed for the draft I had to take a driving test on all the vehicles we tested. That included all Tanks, trucks, forklifts and even the heavy field dynamometers we used for drawbar & cooling tests. Here's a pic of one of those dynamometer's. That has changed since I retired
since you now need a Class A CDL license. Hal

Bob Bancroft · Jan 30, 2010

Different states' requirements are interesting.
I got my "learners permit" (drive with supervision) as soon as I could, my 16th birthday, 1971. Made an appointment then for the driving test. Soonest was a week later, when I got my license. I had been driving things around the farm since BEFORE I could reach the controls.
A few years later took a road test in an old GMC feed truck(with a V-6, what a dog!) to get the "chauffers" license. Was grandfathered with the B CDL. Got and used tank and hazmat endorsements once but that was only written.

rrlund · Jan 30, 2010

Got the first license when I was 16. Took the driving test twice. Once for the first license,then again for my CDL cause I wasn't smart enough to grandfather my chaufers to a CDL when I had the chance.

pete black · Jan 30, 2010

age 16 for driver's, later on military license for multi-fuel trucks and then class a cdl's for work.

Tony Vidlak Sr. · Jan 30, 2010

Twice once at sixteen and a second time when I got my CDL

JK-NY · Jan 30, 2010

Took drivers liscense test at age 16, then Class 1 (tractor trailer ) at about 24 , then a couple years later took a bus road test that got me a class 1 and 2( tractor trailer and bus). Grandfathered in on the Class A CDL with wrecker,pass and school bus endorsements as NY requirements were euqal or stricter than the federal CDL requirements. We did have to take the written test for the CDL. Passed all the road tests on the first try.

HENRY E NC · Jan 30, 2010

This is all great but how many of you started driving at 6 iin a model T truck. We had two on the farm to haul apples and they were fun as all getout and you could adjust the spark to make them backfire if you didn't mind catchihg all hell from Gramps. first lisence at 14 but had been driving all through WWII becauuse there was noo one else. Hauled vegetabl;es etc to farmers market 43-44-45-.

Bspauld · Jan 30, 2010

The first time I drove was a 41 Plymouth truck ,my brother was collecting grain bags after combining and they would drop 2 bags at a time and then pick them up later, I was 4 and watched my brother drive and when he was picking up a couple of bags I got it in creeper gear and away I went,scared him to see the truck coming but he let me finish driving while he picked them up,made it easier for him.He bought a new 47 Plymouth 4 dr sedan and let me drive that to,I was 7 then. I drove the Ford Ferguson when I was 4 but couldnt make the clutch go down,

Cheesehead Fred · Jan 30, 2010

I started with an Oliver 60RC with a six foot disc when I was in the third grade on Thanksgiving Day so my daddy could get some fall plowing done with the Allis WC before the ground froze.
Took my drivers test at 16, failed twice on the %&#@? one-way streets in the big city, but passed the last time by parallel parking my dad"s "63 Buick Electra 225. I remember it being 80" long...

Eric SEI · Jan 30, 2010

I got my license when I was 17. I have never taken the driving test. At that time (1975) Indiana didn't require a driving test if you had passed driver's ed at school.

ericlb · Feb 1, 2010

i got my first leagle licence when i was 15, did good, as i had been driving on the farm since i was 10 that was back in '72, the best licence story i have was one of my good friends [ now passed away] a couple of years before WWll he needed a chafures licence which nateraly needed a truck and trailer for the driving test, they couldnt find one not being used and they wound up using a almost new 1937 chevy 2 dr coupe and a bumper pull trailer as the ''truck'' he passed

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