Learners on motorways

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robroy:

Rowley010:
No rob the world doesn’t revolve around you and your not some TruckNet god where all replies are directed at you. My response was to the OP

Wow ! :laughing:
Is it the wrong time of the month bud or what? :neutral_face:

‘‘No Rob it wasn’t aimed at you’’… would have been quite sufficient, but hey!, thanks for clearing up the misunderstanding.

Wrong time of the month me? Your the one that took a reply on a thread that’s not yours, and without you quoted in it as directed at you…

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robroy:

Rowley010:
No rob the world doesn’t revolve around you and your not some TruckNet god where all replies are directed at you. My response was to the OP

Wow ! :laughing:
Is it the wrong time of the month bud or what? :neutral_face:

‘‘No Rob it wasn’t aimed at you’’… would have been quite sufficient, but hey!, thanks for clearing up the misunderstanding.

Wrong time of the month me? Your the one that took a reply on a thread that’s not yours, and without you quoted in it as directed at you…

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DickyNick:
Here we go again. Robroy knows everything about eff all and is now a driving instructor

I see my fans are out in force today. :sunglasses:
:laughing: :laughing:
Thanks for that invaluable contribution to the thread mate anyway. :smiley:

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Rowley010:

robroy:

Rowley010:
No rob the world doesn’t revolve around you and your not some TruckNet god where all replies are directed at you. My response was to the OP

Wow ! :laughing:
Is it the wrong time of the month bud or what? :neutral_face:

‘‘No Rob it wasn’t aimed at you’’… would have been quite sufficient, but hey!, thanks for clearing up the misunderstanding.

Wrong time of the month me? Your the one that took a reply on a thread that’s not yours, and without you quoted in it as directed at you…

Ok mate fair enough, but it was on the end of an exchange between me and Jake tbf, so an easy mistake to make.

Sorry it bothered you so much. :wink:

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jakethesnake:

robroy:

Rowley010:
Remember right back to when you were learning to drive a car. It’s probably actually quite daunting to go onto a motorway as a learner even with a professional instructor. 50mph is perfectly legal and it’s best they build up confidence to go at 70mph. Have to start somewhere. I bet your the kind of driver who sits there laughing at someone who’s only just passed his class 1 and is taking 50 attempts to get it onto a bay aren’t you as you clearly can’t remember what it’s like to do be something new, or were you an expert straight away? :unamused:

Are you on about me or what?.
As for daunting, I remember as a learner driver being told to sit near the max speed limit to each type of road I was on if safe to do so.
Is 65 to 70 so much more ‘daunting’ than 50?..I reckon not, and I would reckon the candidate is well up to test standard before they even consider giving him/her a taste of M.way driving, it aint that they will be let loose in the first few lessons is it. :unamused:

Oh and thanks for your unfounded random opinion of me (if it is me) but no, I aint anything like that, so I don’t feel the need or the justification to explain to you why I am not tbh. :neutral_face:
And neither do I profess to be an expert either.

Ha you are certainly no expert on driving instruction, that’s for sure. :wink: What you seem to fail to realise is that when you took your test there was far less traffic about and you being so flawless in your driving that 65 - 70 was probably ok. :wink: However there are some that are not quite as proficient as yourself :laughing: and they cannot grasp things so quickly therefore some candidates may need to start off at 50 on a motorway and build up gradually. Every new driver is different and has to be treated differently. As I said earlier far too many making comments on something they obviously know nothing about. Most drivers seem to forget they had to learn one day. :unamused:

Jake we all know you sit at 50 in lane one, flashing trucks in for a thrill.

This a new element of driving lessons. None of us did it, not even you.
And you certainly haven’t taught learners on the motorway.
Was there even a driving test all the way back in your day? Or did it just consist of giving your wife a slap round the face and stuffing a pipe with tobacco to prove manliness?

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robroy:

Rowley010:

robroy:

Rowley010:
No rob the world doesn’t revolve around you and your not some TruckNet god where all replies are directed at you. My response was to the OP

Wow ! :laughing:
Is it the wrong time of the month bud or what? :neutral_face:

‘‘No Rob it wasn’t aimed at you’’… would have been quite sufficient, but hey!, thanks for clearing up the misunderstanding.

Wrong time of the month me? Your the one that took a reply on a thread that’s not yours, and without you quoted in it as directed at you…

Ok mate fair enough, but it was on the end of an exchange between me and Jake tbf, so an easy mistake to make.

Sorry it bothered you so much. :wink:

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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idrive:

jakethesnake:

robroy:

Rowley010:
Remember right back to when you were learning to drive a car. It’s probably actually quite daunting to go onto a motorway as a learner even with a professional instructor. 50mph is perfectly legal and it’s best they build up confidence to go at 70mph. Have to start somewhere. I bet your the kind of driver who sits there laughing at someone who’s only just passed his class 1 and is taking 50 attempts to get it onto a bay aren’t you as you clearly can’t remember what it’s like to do be something new, or were you an expert straight away? :unamused:

Are you on about me or what?.
As for daunting, I remember as a learner driver being told to sit near the max speed limit to each type of road I was on if safe to do so.
Is 65 to 70 so much more ‘daunting’ than 50?..I reckon not, and I would reckon the candidate is well up to test standard before they even consider giving him/her a taste of M.way driving, it aint that they will be let loose in the first few lessons is it. :unamused:

Oh and thanks for your unfounded random opinion of me (if it is me) but no, I aint anything like that, so I don’t feel the need or the justification to explain to you why I am not tbh. :neutral_face:
And neither do I profess to be an expert either.

Ha you are certainly no expert on driving instruction, that’s for sure. :wink: What you seem to fail to realise is that when you took your test there was far less traffic about and you being so flawless in your driving that 65 - 70 was probably ok. :wink: However there are some that are not quite as proficient as yourself :laughing: and they cannot grasp things so quickly therefore some candidates may need to start off at 50 on a motorway and build up gradually. Every new driver is different and has to be treated differently. As I said earlier far too many making comments on something they obviously know nothing about. Most drivers seem to forget they had to learn one day. :unamused:

Jake we all know you sit at 50 in lane one, flashing trucks in for a thrill.

This a new element of driving lessons. None of us did it, not even you.
And you certainly haven’t taught learners on the motorway.
Was there even a driving test all the way back in your day? Or did it just consist of giving your wife a slap round the face and stuffing a pipe with tobacco to prove manliness?

Oh yeah, course I do like I said in my earlier post. :unamused:
Once again you are wrong. I have taught many learners on motorways but HGV AND PCV drivers because car drivers were not allowed then but I had them on busy dual carriageways.
Oh and apparently I have never driven lorries either or so I am told.
Believe what you want because I could not care less. CHUMPS. :laughing:

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Sidevalve:
Had similar back in the late 1970’s when I did my car test in the army, Paul. Training course was two weeks, two students per car; you trained for first week and did your test on the first Friday. Those who failed had the other week for a re-take; you could do that back then. Those who passed spent the second week doing more advanced stuff including motorways; in other words learning to drive a car rather than learning to pass the test.

Doing that sort of stuff with an experienced instructor rather than just winging it solo was invaluable.

Same here, passed my test the first week then spent 1 week behind the wheel of an old 3 series Land Rover and 1 week in a military police car getting used to throwing it round. Putting a car through its paces on the skid pan, is one experience I’ll never forget! :wink: