David_Dickson

I believe I re-test every 3 years is very necessary BUT, not the same test we all sat at the start of our driving careers.

This first test needs to be completely re-modelled. How can we consider a new driver "qualified" after sitting that joke of a test? You spend a few tens of hours practicing in a 1 litre corsa round town during the day with the occasional blat up to 50 or so if there is a suitable road in the area. You pass the test and are then legally allowed to take a supercar out on the motorway at night in the pouring rain. This isnt right.

As for a re-test every few years, yes but it shouldnt concentrate on petty things like feeding the wheel or knowing your stopping distances, it should concentrate on things like observation skills, reading the road, hazard assessment, car control at motorway speeds and similar things that are much more usefull to us.
Who should pay for it? We should of course. Not a full test fee (I dont even know how much that is) but say £10-£20. The number of people sitting this re-test would make this a viable price to pay for the examiners. Is a fee of ten or maybe twenty pounds every three years such a huge price to pay to weed incompetent drivers off the road? I dont think so.

BOB.T

Cheap as chips I'd say

Motoring is a luxury, not a right!

Re airbags, I saw a guy smoking a pipe whilst driving the other day, having his arms crossed up is the least of his worries!

greg.g

I dont really think a re test every 3 years is the answer.
I have had my licence for 20 years and no points, but i dont know
whether i could pass a re test. I am no perfect driver and i do speed at times, but only when i feel it is safe (should be never) to do so. Its all down to common sence. Thats where the problem lays. Most of the sh**heads dont have any.
I have heard that in australia , a new driver is on probation for 3 years after passing their test. If they collect a certain number of points in that time they have to take a re test
At least in those first 3 years they may have developed some
decent driving habits which may stay with them in the future.

Greg.

Steve777

iTrader: (8)

Good, its time that more freight went back on the railways

Lorry drivers wouldn't be out of jobs because you could work far more safely on the railways. After all good planning would mean this would be a far better way of moving freight around the country.

Don't agree with the three year retest, 10 may be more sensible. I certainly would not be afraid of this

Steve Whitehorn

iTrader: (13)

Well said Jerome.
Yes a compulsory defensive driving course every 3 years would be very good. But pigs might fly...
Steve