I fully understand the above comments. I can tell you I’ve had a very limited number of customers as a result of information given by DSA register - so that does work. My suggestion that a list of registered instructors be sent out with provisional licences from DVLA has never been taken up. That is the obvious way of getting the point home.
I am of the considered opinion that the register has little benefit as it is purely voluntary. It is also too expensive - as has been pointed out. It will be of minimal value for as long as the public don’t know it exists and whilst it remains voluntary.
RE -reply no 10
The pass rate idea has been squashed by ADIs as a lot depends on the trainees - if it were to come in then ADIs would cherry pick their trainees to put up their pass rates - anyone with say, a learning disability, would not be welcome
The comment I got from a LGV instructor who had literally just passed his part 3 at Weedon is still fresh in my mind - I’ve passed the DSA instructor stuff but I’m still no better or worse an instructor than I was before I started it but the company insist on it so it looks good to punters - I can say no more…
And while I think of it, I resent the idea that we are in some way “lesser” as we only teach existing drivers. Without going into detail about the standard of some of these drivers, can I remind the younger readers that we used to train “double L” on artics up until 1996. For years I started lessons in artics with the words “down there there’s 3 pedals”. Oh yes, no dual controls and, in close on 40 years, no accidents. It was known as “double L” as we used to display the old HGV L plate alongside a normal car type L plate. (Whoops, just realised I’ve admitted to being able to train in artics!)
Also the number of bus conductors who were trained “from nothing” on buses with the advent of one man operation. It was “learn to drive a bus or you’re down the road”. So there’s a few dozen of them to my credit as well. Not bad when you consider most of these were aged over 50 and had never driven anything.
So those who think that we are only able to teach existing drivers want to think again. Certainly those of us with a few years behind us are more than capable.
Agreed IF it was a properly structured realistic course (with real trainees) and test(s) such as that by the RTITB
Clearly you’ve never done the RTITB course. Unless it’s changed, it runs on role play exactly the same as DSA and at no time is a genuine learner involved. I did it 5 times before swapping to DSA and I never saw a trainee.
I now train towards the DSA register and, believe me, the course is very structured!
Peter Smythe:
Clearly you’ve never done the RTITB course. Unless it’s changed,
RTITB INSTRUCTOR COURSE
I was informed that they used ‘real’ trainees but reading the link above it does not say that and if that is not the case then it also is not ‘real life’
Perhaps we need someone to design a REAL course and test(s) - how you fixed Peter
