{"id":22528,"date":"2018-10-20T22:34:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T21:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=22528"},"modified":"2018-10-20T22:34:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T21:34:13","slug":"not-in-my-back-yard-or-anyone-elses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=22528","title":{"rendered":"Not In My Back Yard – Or Anyone Else’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tumbleweed\"It\u2019s funny, but I keep seeing instructors claiming on forums and social media that they all still teach turn in the road (TIR) and reversing around a corner (RRC). I mean, 99% of them are all doing it, same as they ever were.<\/p>\n

For anyone who doesn\u2019t know, DVSA stopped testing these manoeuvres in December 2017.<\/p>\n

Before then, instructors would be queuing up to use corners that the examiners used. There\u2019d sometimes be three or more cars waiting to muscle their way in (I\u2019ve written several times about how I\u2019d \u201chad words\u201d with the prats who\u2019d tried it when I was somewhere with a pupil and they\u2019d got in my way). A lot of them would spend a full hour there, boring their pupils witless with try after try. Right now, the only time there are any problems is in car parks used by examiners for bay parking. All the old, favourite corners and quiet roads for turning have tumbleweed blowing across them.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m wondering where they\u2019re doing these manoeuvres now, because it sure as hell isn\u2019t in the places I go – and I travel significant distances with my pupils. I reckon I\u2019ve seen two cars having a go in the last year – and they were private runners or PDIs by the look of them. There must be some mythical place out there, like the \u201celephants\u2019 graveyard\u201d<\/a>, where all these instructors are when they reckon they\u2019re still covering them.<\/p>\n

I show my pupils how to do those old manoeuvres once or twice, so if something happens on their test (or once they\u2019ve passed) and they have to turn around they\u2019ll at least be able to physically do it (and that has<\/strong> happened a couple of times on tests). I bring it in sneakily, by wanting to turn round and go back the way we came for some reason, pointing out afterwards that \u201cthat used to be on the test\u201d. That way, they realise what they\u2019d use it for without worrying about the finer details too much, and it means they can\u2019t accuse me of teaching them things \u201cthey don\u2019t need\u201d. But there\u2019s no point spending hours on it so they can do the original ultra-polished pre-2018 test version.<\/p>\n

What annoys me, though, is that DVSA took TIR and RRC out of the test in the first place. It was bloody obvious that instructors would gradually stop teaching them, even if they were<\/strong> \u201cstill on the syllabus and should be taught\u201d, as DVSA stated. Pupils – and especially their parents – are highly likely to object to paying for lessons if they\u2019re being taught stuff they don\u2019t \u201cneed\u201d, in their eyes. Christ, before any bay parking was included on tests up here, no one taught it at all. TIR and RRC are no different to that now.<\/p>\n

What makes it all the more annoying is that it wouldn\u2019t have cost DVSA a penny, or caused them any extra work, to keep both on the test as possible manoeuvres that could be requested, along with the newer ones. That way, instructors would have had<\/strong> to teach them – and pupils would have had<\/strong> to accept that. It would also have resulted in better trained drivers. I\u2019d like to think DVSA will come to its senses and bring them back, because if they leave it too long it will be a major problem, since ADIs won\u2019t remember* how to teach them properly.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, as with most large organisations, logic is not DVSA\u2019s strongest point.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

* You think I\u2019m kidding? When they first introduced bay parking at one of the then two test centres in Nottingham, 80% of ADIs boycotted that one and went to the other. They didn\u2019t know how to teach it. Several retired because of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s funny, but I keep seeing instructors claiming on forums and social media that they all still teach turn in the road (TIR) and reversing around a corner (RRC). I mean, 99% of them are all doing it, same as they ever were. For anyone who doesn\u2019t know, DVSA stopped testing these manoeuvres in December […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,84,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-dvsa-related","category-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}