the sooner they make it a legal requirement to pass a second driving test before been allowed to drive on motorway,s the better , as a hgv driver I see people doing the most amazing things when driving on motorways ! and im sure you have all said it yourselfs " HOW THE F*@K DID THEY GET A LICENCE "…every day the main motorway networks are brought to a stand still because of people not knowing the basics of motorway driving , they try to drive on motorways like they would on none motorway roads and the sooner we all have to take a motorway driving test the better and safer the motorways will be…
And then a dual carriageway test too?
I know this is part of their normal training, but it seems to have failed.
But, tbh, I’m often overtook on single carriageways and dual carriageways when I’m doing the limit by other trucks, drivers who have had the training to know better.
Who would teach them?
Some of the worst motorway drivers are driving instructors, They pull out from the slip then straight across to the middle lane and sit there.
Motorway tuition is a good idea, But not if it’s taught by a muppet.
Tuition should be state run for all classes of vehicles, That way the instructors are salaried and are teaching rather than profiteering.
In principle it’s a very good idea. There’s no doubt that the first experience of motorway driving can be extremely intimidating to a rookie car driver.
Unfortunately putting it into practice isn’t quite as easy. First of all there’s the undeniable fact that the only place this can be taught is on the motorway itself, which means that every junction near a town or city would be infested with driving school cars doing “circuits and bumps”, coming on at one junction and leaving at the next. Anyone who’s used the M4 at Port Talbot will know what a PITA this is. Secondly, what happens if you happen to live in an area where your nearest motorway is an hour’s drive away?
I suspect that the ideal compromise would be to debar newly qualified drivers from using motorways during their first 12 months after passing their test, unless they are accompanied by another qualified driver who has at least three years under his belt, and enforce the use of the green “P” plates to give other drivers fair warning.
I actually benefited from motorway driver training when I did my car test in the Army. The course was scheduled for two weeks, two trainees to one instructor, test at end of first week; the second week was there in case one or both failed the initial test, however if both passed the instructor then took us out to do more advanced stuff. I’ve always been thankful of that training, stood me in good stead.
A new proposal is to allow learners in their later stages of training to use motorways and be tested on them - if there is one within a reasonable distance
It could be easily done by requiring new drivers to complete motorway and possibly night driving instruction before you can send off for your new full license.
thehairyarsedtrucker:
It could be easily done by requiring new drivers to complete motorway and possibly night driving instruction before you can send off for your new full license.
That is graduated licencing which is still in the proposal stage but political will is necessary to impliment it
limeyphil:
Who would teach them?
Some of the worst motorway drivers are driving instructors, They pull out from the slip then straight across to the middle lane and sit there.
Motorway tuition is a good idea, But not if it’s taught by a muppet.
I don’t know about driving instructors on motorways, but I certainly agree that the general standard of car driving instructors is appalling.
tachograph:
limeyphil:
Who would teach them?
Some of the worst motorway drivers are driving instructors, They pull out from the slip then straight across to the middle lane and sit there.
Motorway tuition is a good idea, But not if it’s taught by a muppet.I don’t know about driving instructors on motorways, but I certainly agree that the general standard of car driving instructors is appalling.
this is true the instructor my lad used thought it was ok to turn up ten minutes late and drop him off ten minutes early and then wonder why I had a go at him ? I paid him for 1hr not 40 mins if I didn’t pay him is full he would not be happy either … three times he said he was ready for is test and he failed on approaching a rounderbout and when I asked my lad why he didn’t know what lane he should be in he said he had never been tought it ? I changed is instructor and he past ? all a lot of rip offs if you ask me …
the teaching of learners should be like the German system so many hours have to be spent under instruction on motorways, driving in the dark and bad conditions ie rain you cannot go for your test until the required number of hours has been completed. Overall compared with the continent the standard of motorway driving over here is diabolical you can spend two weeks in Europe and rarely overtake a car then overtake 10 to 15 on the M20 alone once back in the UK, and Ireland is no better all drive like Colin Mcrae on the back roads of Donegal and like Miss Daisy on the motorways why?
Amen OP.
It’s the car drivers that do 56 Mph that do my head in, do 50 or 60, not 56!