Thread by @turnipdodger

So they’re removing the reversing element from HGV tests to make them easier to pass?

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there’s only one way to get on a loading dock, and it ain’t forwards.

What could possibly go wrong?

#supplychain #hgv #brexit

I want to add a clarification here, as the Sky story on which my tweet was based my not have been the whole story.

Reversing is to be removed from the DfT examined test but will be ‘tested by a 3rd party’.

I’m not quite sure where an army of competent 3rd party examiners will come from, how standards will be upheld and overseen, or how the funding of this works.

I fully appreciate something must be done to solve the crisis, but safety must remain the number one priority.

This tweet, from a road safety specialist and DfT advisor that you'll find somewhere in this thread seems instructive.

It's not about maintaining standards - it's desparation.