Indiana Drivers Testing Facilities

So I've heard many horror stories about the Indiana testing facilities. Mostly that they're excessively hard and will fail a person just to get them to come back and pay the testing fee and truck rental fees multiple times.

Anyone have any locations that they went to where the SoS examiner was fair?

I was thinking of the Prosafe South Haven/Portage location

they're excessively hard and will fail a person just to get them to come back and pay the testing fee and truck rental fees multiple times.

Clearly that sentiment came from people who were embarrassed that they failed the test the first time but weren't about to admit they actually screwed up.

That's the reason why you can look around on the Web (not on this site of course) and find countless thousands of people trashing pretty much every trucking company in America. They get hired, screw up, and get tossed to the curb. Well that too could never have been the driver's fault. Had to be the company is just dirty and tries to screw people.

Listen, some people have to fail the exam the first time. You can't expect them to pass everyone the first try. But so what? If you fail it you simply schedule a re-test and keep taking it until you pass. We've had tons of people come through here that have failed their CDL exam one or more times but they all wound up getting it. No big deal.

Don't sweat it. Just focus on learning everything the best you can and go in there and give it your best shot. If you pass first time - great! If not - so what? Go back and do it again until you succeed.

Thomas Edison famously found 1000 ways how not to invent the light bulb before he finally figured it out and Abraham Lincoln lost more elections than he won in his political career. The Indiana CDL testing facilities couldn't stop them from succeeding and they won't stop you either.

Yup, I agree with Brett. There is a scoring system they use, if you have an infraction you will be docked the points. If you miss enough, you fail. And there are some things that are auto fail. You run over that curb? Yup, you fail.

I do not believe they will fail someone that should have passed just to try to get them to pay again. There are PLENTY of people that will fail on their own, they do not need to create more business.

A lot of people that are ready to pass fail. Not because the tester had it out for them. But often because they get nervous and freeze up so to speak. Heck if it was easy and everyone passed what would be the use of the test?

Woody

I tested at the south haven portage location, the examiners are fair, it took me four times to pass but that was totally my fault, I wasn't as prepared as I thought I was and got nervous