Tom Beeston wrote:Hi All,
I haven't posted here for ages (since it was hacked) and in that time I have finished university and got a job
I'm an IAM member and I have RoSPA Gold too, but since I've started driving as part of my work I've found my driving has slipped dramatically. I no longer have my nice Focus and instead have a large noisy smelly 4x4 Diesel
I'm driving to a lot of new places in an unfamiliar area, and find I'm geeting very distracted map reading etc etc, I also find I'm thinking a lot about what I'm going to do when I get there, and am not thinking as much as I could about what's going on around me. It's nothing horrific, but my driving is nowhere near as smooth as it was, I'm crossing my hands, not thinking about gears, changes are getting messier, I'm braking more etc and in places I'm just not concentrating.
I have tried commentary, but I find while I do it and my driving improves, I'm finding it hard to sustain as I begin thinking about what I'm doding when i arrive at my destination, and am only keeping commentary up for 5-10minutes.
Also, when I've finished at wherever I've been, I often find myself resting arms on the door, driving with one hand etc, as work can sometimes be quite tiring.
Any ideas as to what I can do? I want to get rid of all these little bad things before the escalate (as I'm sure they will) into bad/dangerous driving habits.
Any tips on attitude training/books to read? Cheers!
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