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Help with provisional licence

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    #32
    chrislad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭chrislad


    Lessons can only teach you how to drive. They can't teach you how to react. Lessons got me started, but my driving myself taught me how to really drive.


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    #33
    C.D.
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    I agree experience is essential to competant driving, I just wish they would hurry up and reform the system so that the inexperienced/unqualified aren't driving around by themselves- it is such a farcical situation that you can sit a "theory test" and get away with driving by yourself for decades.


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    #34
    Wishbone Ash
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    chrislad wrote:
    Lessons can only teach you how to drive. They can't teach you how to react. Lessons got me started, but my driving myself taught me how to really drive.
    Pass rates for tests in large vehicles like trucks and buses are much higher than car rates yet very few candidates for those categories have their own vehicle to get experience in. The only experience they get is during lessons.


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    #35
    Waltons
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    Wishbone Ash wrote:
    Pass rates for tests in large vehicles like trucks and buses are much higher than car rates yet very few candidates for those categories have their own vehicle to get experience in. The only experience they get is during lessons.

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you need a full license for a a car before you're eligable to go for a truck or bus test?
    If I'm right, I would imagine the skills gained from learning to drive a car (and subsequently passing a test which claims you are fit to drive said car), while not giving direct experience to driving a larger vechicle, would make it even a bit easier to pass a test on a larger vechicle, even if you only had experience with the larger vechicle during lessons.
    If you hadn't ever driven a car before, and didn't have access to a car outside lessons, I would imagine it would take a fair number of lessons to become capable.


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    #36
    Wishbone Ash
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    Waltons wrote:
    I would imagine the skills gained from learning to drive a car (and subsequently passing a test which claims you are fit to drive said car), while not giving direct experience to driving a larger vechicle, would make it even a bit easier to pass a test on a larger vechicle
    Yes indeed Waltons but the driving dynamics and characteristics are totally different in a large vehicle. I take your point though.


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    #37
    chrislad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,324 ✭✭✭chrislad


    Wishbone Ash wrote:
    Pass rates for tests in large vehicles like trucks and buses are much higher than car rates yet very few candidates for those categories have their own vehicle to get experience in. The only experience they get is during lessons.

    Following a previous point, you can always argue that a person seeking a license for a truck or bus is doing so for the sake of a job, and therefore it is going to be a lot more important to them to pass, and taking that into account, testers will probably be a bit more lenient (this coming from a Taxi Driver who told me he hit a curb in his truck test, and still passed).


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