My mom has a funny story about driver testing.

The maneuverbility part of it is 100 inches or so wide if Memory serves right. My Grandpa's truck(which my parents now own) is about 96 inches wide(it is just a bit wider than our RV mirror to mirror, and its mirrors are not quite tall enough to go over the top of the manueverbility courses poles). The body of the truck is about 76 and the mirros are about 10 each(it has the really old vertical rectangular mirrors, which is way they don't go over the poles).

It was Grandpa's only vehicle when he went to take the drivers test(he had accidently let his license expire and had to retake it). He just could not quite get the truck through the course. Every time his mirrors would just barely catch the pole, just enough that he would have to start over. Apparently the examiner said something not quite nice(about how did grandpa ever get his license to begin with).

Here I shall stop and tell you something about my grandpa. He is about 6'6"-6'8" and he weighed at the time nearly 300 lbs(and he is a farmer so that was NOT fat). Very big guy. Second he takes crap from NOBODY.

"Well your branch passed me," grandfather told the examiner, "and frankly I would like to see YOU get through the manueverbility course with this. If you can than I will concede that I shouldn't get my license if not then I say we should either both have our license or both not have our license."

According to mom the examiner quickly and promptly refused(I would too.... that would be hell to get through the course). Grandpa took it up to the guy in charge of the branch and what they ended up doing is letting him drive one of thier cars to do the maneuverbility portion. None of the people at the Bureu thought that they could get the truck through(with only 2'ish inches of clearance on either side that would be realy tough to do).


Anyways mom told me that little 'family legend' back when I first took my Drivers test. Reason being we found that the Bureu we went to had the course about 2-3 inches thinner than normal. Mom was furious(because I only just was catching the poles on my mirrors, just barely, though this was because I am only mediacore when driving in reverse my vehicle mirrors included has an addition 4-6 inches more an each side than grandpa's truck). They said those couple inches shouldn't matter. So mom decided to play grandpa's truck card. She asked them if it would matter then. Was kinda funny to see the examiner take the heat .

Anyways as soon as she could mom took me to the bureu branch in the next nearest city(she didn't want to take me there first due to the fact that it is in a far bigger city than anything I had previousally driven in before, even though we had heard plenty of bad things about the nearer branch). Passed the manueverbility first time, no problemo. I was only barely catching it to begin with, and since these guys were spaced out those extra inches I got through with ease.


Still I love my grandpa's old truck. Actually, I think it is capable of qualify for antique car licenses now.... maybe, I would have to look it up. It is in really really bad shape these days.