So should drivers have to redo the theory test every 10 years?

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123219473#Comment_123219473

Over time you would see a behavioural change natioinally which improves everyone's standard of driving. Obviously you'll still get dicks who continue to flaunt the rules but most people will gradually become less tolerant of their crap.

tayto lover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123219505#Comment_123219505

Maybe but wasn't the first Driving Test supposed to do that too?

Infoseeker1975

Yes if it would help all the drivers out there that think a red light is green, it is so bad where I live that I am waiting to get beeped at for not driving through when it is red

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123219515#Comment_123219515

The existing driving test does introduce a basic level of knowledge and skill. Bad habits develop over time for various reasons. However, for whatever reason many simply don't know many of the rules (I don't know whether they never knew or have forgotten since they did their test).
Two I hear/read frequently is with regard to cycle lanes and with regard to people cycling two abreast - for some reason many peole seem to have the absolute incorrect idea of what these rules are. These are just two simple examples based on laws which largely haven't changed. In many other examples, the laws may have changed and people remain oblivious to the new law. The new speed limits and the not-so-new speed limit signage seems to have confused many people, even in threads on here!

A simple question for those against the proposal to routinely test people (whether theory only or theory & practival) during their driving life: if you were a forklift driver, would you be allowed to continue driving without routine testing for decades?

Wanderer78

not necessarily retested, but definitely rechecked by testers, and taken from there, whether its some lessons etc, all prepaid by road taxes, with 15 years of driving, not a hope id pass it now!

CMOTDibbler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123219618#Comment_123219618

Your question at the end is answered by the fact that the forklift driver is a professional driver being paid for their skills and is required to be certified by law.

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123219736#Comment_123219736

But in both cases, they are operating machinery that poses a real risk to other people. In one, they must prove their competency frequently. In the other "sure here you go, you'll be fine for the next fifty years!"

However, based on your point: then should taxi drivers sit a driving test every year or two, given that they are paid to drive? What about van drivers, sales reps, etc.?

CMOTDibbler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123219828#Comment_123219828

You're actually looking at that the wrong way around. Taxi drivers, van drivers, truck drivers all have had legal obligations and frameworks to work within. For many years, workplace machinery operators didn't. You could literally hop into a forklift and work away without anything other than ad hoc training. It wasn't until 2005 that proper training was legally required.

creedp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123219828#Comment_123219828

Is there not a CPC training requirement for truck/bus drivers? In that case at least we can say with certainty that those trained professionals knowingly ignore the rotr as against the poor ignorant car drivers who know no better

tayto lover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123219618#Comment_123219618

I'm not disagreeing at all. I am saying that lazy careless people who simply won't push a simple leaver at their hand up or down to indicate won' change their ways no matter what. The only thing they fear is fines and there are not enough Gardai out there to scare them into complying.