“Less rules and one licence should make it a safer driving enviroment for everyone …..”

Once again thank you Lyndal for the latest post that I sent you and hey its okay that it was late but like they tell us on the road ” BETTER LATE THAN NEVER .”

You asked me for further comments and ideas but what I need is to satisfy in my own mind is what and how do you think that we can get some advice or even assistance from the State Goverments and Federal Goverment to help educate and maybe devise a better way in getting the general public and others in working out a better understanding with the motorists and transport industry.

Is it to late to rethink the ways we educate and teach our future drivers and even the current ones we have today. Personally I dont think so but then again you can’t teach an old dog new tricks but you certainly can teach a young one better ways and I am not using the ” old dog ” in a bad way so as not to offend anyone.

From what I can see from this site is that we are generally looking for better ways of getting people to understand the way to travel with each other on our highways across the country. Correct me if I am wrong.

To be able to do that it will take some effort and hard yakka and to get each goverment on side and rehash our ways of teaching people in the concepts of being better motorists and to have the understanding that the  RIGHT to drive is a PRIVILIGE .

Sadly in the past week we have had some nasty accidents here in QLD with at the latest  9 deaths on our roads and to me thats a bad thing and very stressing for everyone that has been affected by it and hopefully the overall population.

Sitting here and reading and trying to understand that what everyone has said on this site and even in the general public arena there certainly is needed for a major overhaul of the way people are taught to drive and to understand why they should have that RIGHT to DRIVE .

I am not on a witch hunt here and condemning anyone but if we could find a way that we can somehow get a better understanding and for who ever it needs to take and and for the goverments of our country to get serious about reducing our sad road tolls maybe we can be a better country but as long as there are states/territories  that never can agree with each other and its happened many times over the years and we all know that come to a universal agreement to teaching eveyone who wants to earn that PRIVILAGE to drive .

There should be ONE and only ONE way of teaching everyone the RIGHT way and this should be right across the whole country and not each state or territory have what they consider their way is the only way.

I have always believed that and many will agree with me that there should only be ONE SET of rules right across this country. Many truckies will tell you this and it will always will be stated that there are too many rules and believe me I know this personally that when you cross each state/territory border the rules change and yes its a pain in the butt because you have to change to suit each state/territory. ONE SET of rules solves that problem and then really is there an excuse to think otherwise. And that brings it to another point that there should only be ONE LICENCE across the whole country as well.

Less rules and one licence should hopefully make it a safer driving enviroment for everyone.
Thank you once again and hopefully this will give some form of inspiration for maybe a better outlook and who knows.

Richie

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