YDDC - The Sequel!
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Re my post on Feb 20...
Becca posted that she was a bit discombombulated when she called IAM HQ following my post regarding the YDDC scheme...www.iam.org.uk/iamfleet/
""Can I, as a 21 year old disabled driver on a limited income, take advantage of this offer?
Is it only for employees of companies?
Am baffled and now feeling a bit thick.""
.......it concerned me that it was not clear enough that it IS for employees of customers of IAM Fleet ...and I suggested to Becca that, as she had taken the first step towards further driving education, the Skill For Life course would be suitable.
www.iam.org.uk/
Arrangements have been made by IAM HQ for Becca to join the SFL course at her local Group at no cost.
Look forward to her passing in a few months time and telling us how it went!
BOF.
PS...
The YDDC scheme has the same motivation as the 'Skill for Life' course...giving young drivers further education and reducing the results of inexperience leading to injury at best and death, at worst.
To quote...
Over 1000 young lives are lost each year on UK roads.
* The first two years after passing the driving test are the most lethal. Novice drivers form just 7% of the driving population but have 12% of injury accidents.
* Research shows that accident liability is reduced by nearly half after two years' driving experience.
* One in five drivers crash within their first year of driving and 26% of convictions for causing death by dangerous driving are against under 21s.
* 89% of companies have a minimum age at which an employee can drive on company business. Almost three quarters gave a minimum age of 21 and the remainder 25 years of age.
* Extending the learner period has reduced crashes in other parts of the world. In New Zealand an 8% reduction has been achieved - in Florida the figure is 9% and in Quebec 12%. Ontario's fatality rate for new drivers is also down by 24%.
Edited by BOF on Monday 19th March 09:51
BOF said:
Re my post on Feb 20...
Becca posted that she was a bit discombombulated when she called IAM HQ following my post regarding the YDDC scheme...www.iam.org.uk/iamfleet/
""Can I, as a 21 year old disabled driver on a limited income, take advantage of this offer?
Is it only for employees of companies?
Am baffled and now feeling a bit thick.""
.......it concerned me that it was not clear enough that it IS for employees of customers of IAM Fleet ...and I suggested to Becca that, as she had taken the first step towards further driving education, the Skill For Life course would be suitable.
www.iam.org.uk/
Arrangements have been made by IAM HQ for Becca to join the SFL course at her local Group at no cost.
Look forward to her passing in a few months time and telling us how it went!
BOF.
PS...
The YDDC scheme has the same motivation as the 'Skill for Life' course...giving young drivers further education and reducing the results of inexperience leading to injury at best and death, at worst.
To quote...
Over 1000 young lives are lost each year on UK roads.
* The first two years after passing the driving test are the most lethal. Novice drivers form just 7% of the driving population but have 12% of injury accidents.
* Research shows that accident liability is reduced by nearly half after two years' driving experience.
* One in five drivers crash within their first year of driving and 26% of convictions for causing death by dangerous driving are against under 21s.
* 89% of companies have a minimum age at which an employee can drive on company business. Almost three quarters gave a minimum age of 21 and the remainder 25 years of age.
* Extending the learner period has reduced crashes in other parts of the world. In New Zealand an 8% reduction has been achieved - in Florida the figure is 9% and in Quebec 12%. Ontario's fatality rate for new drivers is also down by 24%.
Edited by BOF on Monday 19th March 09:51
Cheers BOF. I'm truly thrilled to bits that this has happened - without the very generous financial assistance I'd still have done it but it'd have been weeks or months before I had enough spare cash set by to be able to afford it; as it is I'm due to drive another thousand miles in the next fortnight so the sooner the better, really. Everyone I've spoken to has been really friendly and positive and I'm really looking forward to getting cracking in May.BOF said:
Becca,
""Everyone I've spoken to has been really friendly and positive and I'm really looking forward to getting cracking in May.""
Chuffed for you...just shows we are not all Boring Old Farts...
BOF.
""Everyone I've spoken to has been really friendly and positive and I'm really looking forward to getting cracking in May.""
Chuffed for you...just shows we are not all Boring Old Farts...
BOF.
Oh, THAT's what BOF stands for.
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I couldn't help at the lad who after being told I was a wheelchair user wanted to know if I'd be able to manage a flight of stairs once in a while, mind.
BOF said:
So, when you pass, you will need two IAM stickers...one for the car and one for the wheelchair!
Promise?
BOF.
Promise?
BOF.
Ah, no stickers on me 'chair I'm afraid as it does duty at formal meetings, funerals etc as well as day to day jollies (it's black rather than hot pink for the same reason) - but I reckon I could probably get my PA to stitch one onto a bag for me.
Promise... er... what?
I'm a bit dense sometimes. Not always. Honest.BOF said:
One on the chair would have people asking "What is that?"...maybe get a few converts...only if you drive the wheelchair carefully!
BOF
BOF
Oh, that'd be the four thousand, seven hundred and thirty-fifth wheelchair/car joke this week. Seriously - no stickers on my chair. It'd be like making someone wear an IAM tshirt all the time (if they exist I'd cheerfully wear one sometimes...).
The first time I got my wife on a motorised wheelchair, she caught the corner of a BIG display in Superdrug...must have taken them hours to pick up all the bits up...they were very kind.
I still can't get her to do the IAM course in her Matiz...so I have settled for her washing the car one day...but not holding my breath!
BOF.
I still can't get her to do the IAM course in her Matiz...so I have settled for her washing the car one day...but not holding my breath!
BOF.
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