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Introduction
Well this will be my first Scooblog. Nothing serious just thought you might like to know what the purpose of life was.
For me the purpose of life is helping as many people as possible drive as safely as possible. Corny and true, sorry.
It all came about because I was nearly killed in a road accident that was not of my making. It involved some IT person (nothing personal) making a wrong turn and doing a u-ie. The first three people in the convoy going the other way went past happily and the fourth didn’t. They obviously didn’t see me coming and did the u-ie anyway. That was a long time ago back in 1990.
That event changed my life.
It nearly ended it.
I spent the next 8 years in road driver training; developing strategies that transformed fleet risk profiles. The product was fantastic, my motivation was fantastic and the client base was dreadful. Trust me, convincing company owners that their drivers needed training during the 1990’s was like pulling teeth out of hens. The marketing and sales effort almost bored the brains out of me. Well it did actually!
We had, indeed still have a product that was proved to reduce road risk by a factor of eight and I couldn’t sell it at a sensible price.
When BT took up the gauntlet and went into driver training after we had convinced them to do so. And then didn’t get the job of training them. I quit.
Actually I got a job training chassis engineers in the USA for a couple of summers. This was the making of me as a limit handling coach.
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