I believe you can only not wear it if you have a medical exemption certificate and/or youre a multidrop driver with delivered 50m or less apart.
Thats by sure not for Professional Drivers.
If your Medical doesnt let you do the Job as you shall you just don’t and do anything else.
Dont think you would safe the £60.- and the Point
If you mean what I think you mean, then you’re wrong. I’m medically assessed annually as both my car and wagon licences are only short term - 3 years and 1 year respectively. The ability - or lack of it - to wear a seatbelt isn’t covered by the medical.
Don’t forget the exemption applies when I’m a passenger as well. It would be ridiculous to ban seatbelt-exempt people from travelling in any motorised vehicle. As I said above, it’s all about the balancing of risks.
A seat belt saved my life once, bloody thing got stuck just as a bus was going past my car
Most people of an age are the ones most reluctant to wear a seat belt, the kids have grown up with it. I remember my father buying a 1962 Singer Vogue and it had seatbelts fitted although they were not needed until 1967, and still they didnt need to worn, it was only in 1983 before they became compulsory for drivers and it took another 8 years before the authorities cottoned on that the back seat passengers should be harnessed.
It wasnt until 2006 that seat belts were made compulsory for all lorry drivers and coach passengers
Wheel Nut: Most people of an age are the ones most reluctant to wear a seat belt, the kids have grown up with it. I remember my father buying a 1962 Singer Vogue and it had seatbelts fitted although they were not needed until 1967, and still they didnt need to worn, it was only in 1983 before they became compulsory for drivers and it took another 8 years before the authorities cottoned on that the back seat passengers should be harnessed.
It wasnt until 2006 that seat belts were made compulsory for all lorry drivers and coach passengers
What Wheelnut said. Add to that the ones who think they’re immortal.
I learned to drive in the Army, and wearing seat belts was compulsory in military vehicles (where fitted) long before it was in civvy street; I did my car test in 1977 and wore them for that, so it became an ingrained habit with me from the start.
One of the problems with earlier fitted seatbelts in commercial vehicles was that they weren’t particularly well designed with regard to either comfort or allowing upper body movement in order to eliminate blind spots, before the days of kerbside and wide angle mirrors. The latter have gone a long way towards eliminating the problem but in some instances (Volvo probably the worst offenders) have created other blind spots in their place.
I found that some of the biggest probs in this area occurred with the older-style Transit vans; some of them were an absolute nightmare at an angled junction.
Wheel Nut: Most people of an age are the ones most reluctant to wear a seat belt, the kids have grown up with it. I remember my father buying a 1962 Singer Vogue and it had seatbelts fitted although they were not needed until 1967, and still they didnt need to worn, it was only in 1983 before they became compulsory for drivers and it took another 8 years before the authorities cottoned on that the back seat passengers should be harnessed.
It wasnt until 2006 that seat belts were made compulsory for all lorry drivers and coach passengers
What Wheelnut said. Add to that the ones who think they’re immortal.
I learned to drive in the Army, and wearing seat belts was compulsory in military vehicles (where fitted) long before it was in civvy street; I did my car test in 1977 and wore them for that, so it became an ingrained habit with me from the start.
One of the problems with earlier fitted seatbelts in commercial vehicles was that they weren’t particularly well designed with regard to either comfort or allowing upper body movement in order to eliminate blind spots, before the days of kerbside and wide angle mirrors. The latter have gone a long way towards eliminating the problem but in some instances (Volvo probably the worst offenders) have creared other blind spots in their place.
You may also remember the old seatbelts that didnt retract and ended up knotted, wet, dirty and frayed on the floor. Part of the MOT used to be pulling on the seatbelt and if the floor or sill came up with it, it could still pass a test if you welded a plate in
Equal amount of reasons to wear one and not wear one, if you want to be one of these so called profiterole (mmmmmmm profiterole) drivers then you must wear it .
