Learners delivering pizzas...

Having been a dominoes driver for a time when I was younger, I can sympathise with getting your deliveries out on time, but I took some delight in reporting a dominoes scooter rider to the local store when he used the cycle lane to bypass rush hour traffic, then weave in and out of vehicles.

I ended up speaking to the store manager in the end and could hear her shouting over the noise in the store at the guy.

I did feel a bit bad for him, but any one of the manoeuvres could have killed him. I know you should expect the unexpected when out on the roads, but when you are looking for people adhering to things like overtaking on the right and some scroat comes sneaking up through your blind spot at full chat in a cycle lane, you realise how close you just came to a serious accident.

Dangerous riding seems to come quite naturally to lads on scooters for some reason.
 
How many fully qualified riders want to get a job delivering stuff on a moped and how many want to spend around £700, just so they can get a job delivering stuff on a moped? Will Pizza Hut pay for the license?

Stupid petition is stupid.
 
Spending 8 months riding on a CBT before doing my training and getting a full licence I think the CBT should be scrapped and you should only be able to ride with an actual licence.
 
misterjingo said:
Round brum I always see the same Dominos guy, he must never sleep - and yes, he does drive crazy. He's on a scooter yet I've seen him keep apace with me doing 50 - well at least 40+ :D What speed do these things go?? I thought they should be 30 mph.
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Probably de-restricted.
 
These guys are a plague in South London when I have to drive into/out of the area. Buzzing about all over the place, forcing their way through tiny gaps, going the wrong way around traffic islands etc...

On two occasions they have caught a footrest/silencer/something on a high curb when trying to squeeze past me and binned it, much to my amusement, and on one occasion they took someones mirror off and didn't stop...
 
tom_e said:
Spending 8 months riding on a CBT before doing my training and getting a full licence I think the CBT should be scrapped and you should only be able to ride with an actual licence.
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Which will make biking even more expensive, as most people will require much longer on the road to get the hang of things instead of CBTing it.
By contrast, I have to say that CBTing on a 125 everywhere for about 8 months taught me a LOT. Perhaps extend the CBT to a 2 or 3 day thing, but don't ditch it.
 
Maybe I should have worded it a bit better but that's essentially what I mean scrap the CBT as is and replace it with some proper training at least, but then you're basically into the same amount of training many people have before doing their MOD1+2 anyway.

I don't think it's so much the length of training but the actual training itself, but to better it you'd need to bring it more into line with 1 on 1 or 2 on 1 training which will push the cost up.

Unleashing anyone especially a 16/17 year old on the road with nothing more than a morning rolling round a car park, a quick ride on the road and no theoretical knowledge of the rules of the road just seems daft.

Saying all this the only reason I finally took the plunge was for exactly that reason one day done and out I went.
 
Wtf, are you insane op?
They have a license like anyone else.
Either more police to enforce rules across the board, or force better tests in everybody.

Find delivery drivers are fine and better than a lot of young people. They haven't got stupidly loud exhaust, aren't showing of and have far more on the road experience often in heavy traffic than most people.
 
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