The Government has announced plans to introduce major reforms
to the way people learn to drive, how they are tested and how motorists
especially those who drive at work!We will be expected to embrace a culture of lifelong learning.
“Changes include the basics of car control, driving in difficult
weather and at night and enhancing driver risk awareness to
help novice drivers predict the intentions of other road users.”A vital component of this ‘skill for life’ concept will be the development, of
vocational qualifications for all at-work drivers, particularly van drivers.“Employers and insurers should have greater confidence in the driving abilities
of those who have undertaken further training, and so we will work with them
to develop proposals for post-test courses and qualifications that produce
safer drivers, and that they are prepared to reward,”
said transport minister Ruth Kelly.“Examples of this could include a new advanced training qualification, a course
in motorway driving or vocational qualifications such as for van drivers.”A19 Fleet Driving Road Safety welcomed the news.
Its director, Malcolm Stephenson, said:“Whether driving company cars, vans or
their own vehicles on business, employees who drive as part of their job undertake
daily one of the most dangerous tasks they will ever be asked to undertake in
their working life.
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