Ive just spent 2 hours driving home from work via the M50 on a provisional licence without a fully licenced driver beside me and spent the time tuning in and out of current affairs programs and to say I'm quietly fuming at the developments is an understatement.
and what where you doing on a MOTORWAY on a provisional driving lisence?!
You are not -and have never been- allowed to drive on a motorway on a provisional lisence be it your 1st or 2nd or 3rd so you are already breaking the law.
On a different note, I do agree that's it's a bit hasty. It's a good thing to enforce this law and it has to be done sooner or later but they could do it in a more sensible way:
- no new provisional lisence holders (from a given date) to be allowed to drive on their own.
- existing provisional lisence holders be given 6 months to acquire a full one, after that same to apply to them.
I failed my driving test twice as well (2nd time my because one of my brake lights wasn't working). But instead of moaning I checked where there is a shortest waiting period, it was Loughrea at the time, so booked a test (within 4 months or so) in there, got a few lessons, went there for a day trip, and passed the test.
Surely if driving is so vital for someone they could go through an inconvenience like that for a day... You should have done so earlier, before taking a job so far away from home that requires you driving on motorway on a provisional lisence.