{"id":8503,"date":"2012-03-10T21:54:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T21:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8503"},"modified":"2012-03-10T21:54:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T21:54:24","slug":"safer-driving-are-you-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8503","title":{"rendered":"Safer Driving? Are You Sure?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story is a little confusing if you read into it<\/a> . It says that there is a scheme \u2013 The Blue Lamp Trust – running in Basingstoke aimed at improving the driving standards of company car drivers. That\u2019s not a bad thing at all.<\/p>\n

But the story\u2019s author says clearly that when he went to take an assessment, the trainer immediately discovered that his driving licence was out of date \u2013 it had, in fact, expired the previous May. The article says:<\/p>\n

The lesson started badly. A quick inspection of my driving licence revealed it expired in May<\/strong>, something I had been blissfully unaware of. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But then it goes on to report how the author got on on his assessment. It makes no mention of any delay while the licence was updated. The author explains how he subsequently \u201cpassed\u201d the assessment. It is clear that the assessment went ahead in spite of the driver having no valid driver\u2019s licence.<\/p>\n

It raises a few questions, not least the one about what law allows you to drive on the roads if you don\u2019t have a licence. One that expired almost a year ago is not<\/strong> valid.<\/p>\n

Another question is how can someone who hasn\u2019t<\/strong> got one, and who wasn\u2019t aware of the fact his had expired, pass an assessment which by definition would require the person being assessed to know about this and deal with it?<\/p>\n

Naturally, that then raises questions about the administration of the scheme (registered as a charity, it appears).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This story is a little confusing if you read into it . It says that there is a scheme \u2013 The Blue Lamp Trust – running in Basingstoke aimed at improving the driving standards of company car drivers. That\u2019s not a bad thing at all. But the story\u2019s author says clearly that when he went […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t