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19th June 1997, Page 7
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• The Government is considering the biggest change to lorry driving tests for 30 years with a consultation paper examining the idea of tests using loaded vehicles.

A spokesman for the Driving Standards Agency, which operates driving test stations, says there is no clear evidence that newly qualified drivers are causing accidents because they lack experience of loaded vehicles. "But there have been calls for tests to be done with a laden lorry and we have to see if they would be workable," he adds.

The DSA accepts that supplying loaded and empty vehi cies for tests would add significant costs to training providers. "Another possibility would be for driving schools to show that a certain amount of training is done with a loaded lorry before the test is taken," says the spokesman.

Jim Thomson of Hampshirebased Creative Training says: "Quite often people fail tests because they pull out too slowly in front of a car at a roundabout. With a loaded vehicle it is going to take even longer."

But he believes that newly qualified drivers should immediately undergo training using loaded vehicles.

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