Keen Bros Frequently Asked Questions
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This is really up to you. First lessons in the Heavy Rigid trucks are recommended
to be one hour as the first lesson is often quite exhausting. Subsequent lessons
can be booked for two hours. Heavy Combination and Multi Combination lessons are
usually booked for two hours or longer as these are usually undertaken by experienced
drivers who already have a truck licence. The smaller Light and Medium Rigid Trucks
are often booked in a three to four hour block including your assessment at the end of it.
The simple answer here is knowing your road rules. All too often our instructors are spending hours teaching drivers the road rules they should already know. To pass the assessment you need to put in an almost perfect drive. The small number of people who fail the assessment usually do so because their road rules are not up to scratch.
For example, do you know how to indicate at a roundabout? How many times does your indicator have to flash before you change lanes? Which lane do you turn in to when turning from a single lane road to a dual lane road?
If your memory needs refreshing on these, go to the Department of Transport interactive quiz.
You will need to have held a C class Car licence for at least one year for Light and Medium Rigid Trucks and for two years for Heavy Rigid classes. For Heavy and Multi Combination classes you will need to have held a Heavy Rigid licence for one year.
If you are going to be obtaining your LR or MR license, then you will need to get your learners permit from The Department of Transport, which must be carried on you during all lessons and produced on the test day with Department of Transport. As soon as they have issued this you are ready to drive. At the same time as you get your test entitlement from Department of Transport you can complete the therory test. For MR (Medium Rigid) you will need to have passed this before you can take a driving test.
The test consists of ten questions, of which eight must be answered correctly. The ten questions are chose randomly from a set of seventeen questions so you will need to know the answers to all seventeen questions.
When you have the test entitlement and your theory test, give us a call and we will book your first lesson at our nearest branch ASAP.
The short answer is YES! We frequently teach people who have an auto licence to drive trucks. In many ways it is easier to teach auto drivers than manual drivers. Driving a truck, especially those with a Road Ranger gearbox is very different from driving a four on the floor manual car. In fact manual drivers often find it harder to change gear than Auto drivers who have never used a clutch or gearbox in their life.
When you have your manual truck licence it will also cover you for a manual car. (A pretty unique way of getting a manual car licence.)
For those who want to stay with an automatic gearbox we also have a range of new Automatic HR Trucks. Automatic trucks are becoming more common every day. TransPerth buses are automatic, as are most concrete agitators and many other different types of truck. An auto truck licence is often the only requirement at many mine sites allowing you cash in on the WA mineral boom and get that highly paid job at a mine site.
The Beetle is not just there for cosmetic purposes although we think it looks good. If you look carefully at Herby you will see it is full of concrete. The reason being, is that the truck has to be seventy per cent loaded for you to do a driving test. We felt that the novelty of a Beetle looked better than plain drab concrete blocks. So poor old Herby now weighs about eight tons.
Lessons are available at the following times:
Monday to Friday: 6.30 AM to 5.00 PM
Saturday: 6.30 AM to 12.30 PM.