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Let’s think about this logically. If the bins have been emptied you should be on the lookout for a bin lorry further up the road, unless of course the bin lorry was going the other way and is now behind us. However, if the bins have not been emptied then we’re not going to encounter a bin lorry arou...

It feels to me that I drive a different part of the M25. I see drivers following too close, sometimes without thought but other times in an effort to bully another driver out of the way, even if there's nowhere for them to go. I see terrible lane discipline… But: - if they don't have an accident / ...

How sad - that a person who would be quoted like that should be IAM Roadsmart Policy Director. I agree. Unfortunately, there has been a tendency over recent years for the IAM to jump feet first into many a road safety debate as the go-to "rent a quote" for the media and journalists, witho...

Just to add a voice from "the other side", RoSPA is going much the same way but in a slightly more oblique way. Its parent organisation is and always has been Safety motivated, and while in the past the drivers and riders were allowed to carry on in an independent fashion, basing their tr...

We pay [...] a separate subscription to the group for the group. It raises the question in my mind whether it is ethical for the IAM to lay claim to group funds? Ethical is irrelevant. Is it legal? If it was agreed when the local charity became affiliated with the national charity, as a condition o...

I do hope you are wrong about the group funds. The money is not theirs but belongs to the members. I thought that if the group were to dissolve then funds had to be returned to the members. Although in our case we would still continue what we are doing but without the interference of the IAM. It wo...

are you folk who are IAM members going to quit in disgust Probably not. ... I have two associates at the moment, and I certainly don't wish to stop trying to help them while they continue to be interested. I agree with Gareth. To quit the IAM "in disgust" would be both selfish and self-in...

To expand on this we have been looking into whether to switch to RoADA or alternatively become independent and recommend the RoDA test for those that would like a test. An interesting thought. What would be the advantage of being independent rather than affiliated to RoSPA? With affiliation you wou...

So for all you folk that can't bring yourselves to leave the IAM, what's stopping you setting up an alternative organisation? Is there some magic legal protection IAM has? Marketing? I mean if you really want to attract folk to be better drivers wouldn't abandoning the IAMs image be a great first s...

…For the time being I continue to observe for the reasons you mention. Most Observers in our group are disgusted by the attitude eminating from HQ and are very close to walking away. Like yourself we try to ignore HQ and continue to uphold the original values and objectives of IAM which the present...