LoveTheMud wrote:

jimbob7 wrote:

LoveTheMud wrote:

So I can't, with my 1999 issued licence, tow a caravan...but my dad, with his old man reactions and poor hearing can? It's ridiculous really,

Category B vehicles with larger trailers i.e. more than 750kg, provided that the combined Maximum Authorised Mass (MAM) does not exceed 3.5 tonnes and the gross MAM of the trailer does not exceed the unladen weight of the towing vehicle.15 Apr 2013

Well guess I will just have to put on my grey wig and drive badly to look like someone safe to tow heavy loads

But the authorities are quite right to introduce tougher standards for driving,what is wrong with that? There sensibly, has to be a cut off point,otherwise every car driver would have a bike and HGV license the moment they passed their car test at the age of 15?,cant' be bothered looking for the lowest age over the entire history of driving in the UK,but I would guess 15.Also the number of cars on the road today has made driving at least 100% harder than it was when I passed my test (back end of the 80's).

I'm not disagreeing, just that when the same logic is applied to pensions or job contracts, there is an awful lot of spilt milk

jimbob7 wrote:

I don't care what the age is,it should be very,very,mega,ultra hard,including night and motorway driving.Which, a Hugh amount of drivers still don't have the hang of.

I bet you weren't saying that when young and before you had your own licence though.