PeterE wrote:
diy wrote:
personally I think RoADA (the advanced driving arm of RoSPA) is a lost cause. They are too small and too often ignored by the safety nazis in rospa.
RoADA does have the advantage of giving graded results, and requiring retests every three years, which appeals to some of the keener amongst the advanced driving fraternity.
If the IAM required retests it would simply lose thousands of members and a lot of income overnight - but I see no reason why it couldn't offer a kind of two-tier membership to those who wanted it.
IAM still does 10 x the number of tests than RoADA. Don't forget Senior observers retest every 3 years and have to score 80+ to retain status.
IAM sees the advanced test as a minimum standard to join and move on (advanced plus, observer training, special assessment etc). the IAM advanced test should not be seen as a gold standard. I also think the bronze silver gold rospa grades sets the opinion that a RoSPA gold person is as good as they can get. This is wrong Everyone can improve.
Also RoSPA stepped up it campaign to lower the Drink drive limit today - I cannot see the logic behind this?