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3DLD
Consultation
The 3rd Driving Licence Directive consultation has been launched and proposes some major changes to motorcycling across the UK. You can respond to the consultation online at http://www.dft.gov.uk/consultations/open/thirddirective/ and have until the 5th February 2010 to reply.
The MCITA have produced a set of guidance notes which may help when responding to the consultation. These guidance notes are formed from the opinion of the MCITA Committee members all of whom understand the day to day issues faced by ATB’s and the novice riders that they train. It is not our intention to tell people how to reply, but to give you the views of our Committee to consider, alongside your own knowledge and expertise. If you do not agree with our views the Consultation Guidelines still contain useful information on completing the Consultation online.
Further to these guidance notes, we have a position statement with regards to the training versus testing option. This can be found below in its entirety and can be copied into your consultation response should you agree with our position.
click here to download the guidance notes
MCITA Position Statement
"In the matter of the implementation of 3DLD the motorcycle training industry calls on DSA to adopt progressive training as the correct way to improve long term rider safety with embedded progressive training processes, delivered to a common standard, quality controlled and properly governed.
However industry recognises recent events, not least the poor implementation of 2DLD and the current economic circumstances for trainers, partly created as a result of DSA’s appalling handling or 2DLD, must be considered.
These events cause the motorcycle training providers, as the delivery agents, to be:
• Sceptical about DSA’s ability to introduce such a progressive training scheme, and
• Concerned for their commercial viability if such a scheme where introduced at DSA’s indicative cost levels.
It is therefore with regret, and irrespective of the improved rider safety benefits available, that the training industry must reluctantly accept the 3DLD testing route in the short term as the only option available that provides a known, if less than perfect, stable environment that may offer a semblance of commercial survival for trainers, without barring access to motorcycling as a transport mode due to excessive cost of entry. Industry calls for a standard to be introduced over time to ensure that all riders taking training prior to test presentation are trained to an equivalent level thus building the foundation of a national rider standard.
Industry will in the medium term, continue to press for the progressive training option, recognising the opportunity to improve long term rider safety with embedded progressive training processes, delivered to a common standard, quality controlled and wisely governed, and would not want to see this option excluded from legislation merely because it must act in the face of a short term expedient position."
Further to the guidance notes above, the MCITA believe that the Consultation causes a great deal of confusion and is not fit for purpose. At the end of the Consultation there are a number of questions which are more generic and ask for your opinions on the document itself. We have produced some extra notes which explain our views and may help when cosidering your response to these questions. click here to view these notes.
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