{"id":8274,"date":"2012-02-21T16:39:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8274"},"modified":"2012-02-21T16:39:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:39:19","slug":"learners-on-motorways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8274","title":{"rendered":"Learners On Motorways"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned this a few months ago<\/font><\/a>. Reading between the lines, Mike Penning\u2019s daughter must think it\u2019s a good idea, otherwise it\u2019s unlikely that something driving instructors have been suggesting for years would ever have come to fruition.<\/p>\n

From sometime in 2012, learners will be allowed on motorways with a qualified instructor<\/strong> (not with mum or dad, or chav mates).<\/p>\n

\"HGVsOf course, it was unlikely this change was ever going to get a clear ride into being. And who better than those guardians of safe motorway driving<\/font><\/a> \u2013 lorry drivers \u2013 to start throwing up objections, via the Road Haulage Association (RHA).<\/p>\n

Yes, the very people who contribute significantly to make motorways a whole lot less safe than they could be is now shooting its collective mouth off and saying that no one should be allowed on them until after they\u2019ve passed their tests. Some of the RHA\u2019s membership even thinks that people shouldn\u2019t be allowed on even then \u2013 not until they have \u201cmore experience\u201d.<\/p>\n

It would simply have to be someone with the intelligence of a lorry driver to come up with that logic \u2013 to stay off motorways until you have more experience\u2026 of not<\/strong> being on them.<\/p>\n

When you think that it\u2019s taken around 80 years to seriously discuss the issue, it\u2019s hardly likely that suddenly anyone is going to listen to a bunch of tailgaters raising objections.<\/p>\n

Maybe we should start our own organisation against tailgating, and call for the banning of all<\/strong> HGVs from motorways until they learn how to leave a big enough gap so as not to create carnage if anything goes wrong? Or maybe that they have to have anti-tailgating technology fitted? Or that the maximum speed limit for HGVs on the road should be enforced, making tampering with the limiting fuse an offence punishable by prison for both the driver and his employer? Oh, and no sandwich toasters or kettles allowed in the cab while the vehicle is moving?<\/p>\n

The only benefit to keeping learners off the motorways is that they wouldn\u2019t be exposed to that kind of crap in the first place.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another report \u2013 a better one, I have to say \u2013 here in the News & Star<\/font>. It looks like the change will happen sometime during the summer. Of course, the last people Penning is likely to keep informed of developments and timelines is driving instructors, because I haven\u2019t seen anything<\/strong> except what\u2019s been in the press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned this a few months ago. Reading between the lines, Mike Penning\u2019s daughter must think it\u2019s a good idea, otherwise it\u2019s unlikely that something driving instructors have been suggesting for years would ever have come to fruition. From sometime in 2012, learners will be allowed on motorways with a qualified instructor (not with mum […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"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\/8274","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=8274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}