Area of Focus
Vehicle checks, checklist and use of trip sheet
Fault find cause of vehicle breakdown
Couple and uncouple trailers
Reporting a breakdown
Reversing and parking (straight line, alley docking, parallel parking and serpentine)
Reaction to road signs and traffic signs
Types of fire, fire fighting equipment. How to use a fire extinguisher. Tyre care by NTS.
Other types of collision: Collision with pedestrians and what defensive action to take. Collision with animals and how to prevent it. Collision with bicycles and how to prevent it. Collision with motorcycles and how to prevent it. Collision with trains and what defensive action to take against it. Collision with fixed objects and how to prevent it. Collision whilst reversing and how to prevent it.
Shifting gears up and down and general road sense.
Simulator training
Preventable accident - One in which you failed to do everything you reasonably could have done to prevent it
Defensive driving - Driving to prevent accidents in spite of the incorrect actions of others or the presence of adverse driving conditions.
6 Adverse driving conditions – Light, weather, road, traffic, vehicle & driver condition.
6 positions of the two-car crash i.e. Ahead, behind, head-on, intersection, overtaking & being overtaken
Causes and defensive action to take against each.
5 elements of defensive driving: Knowledge, alertness, foresight, judgement & skill
The Single Vehicle Crash (Mystery Crash)
5 habits of defensive driving: Observation, Communication, Coordination, Navigation, Consideration.