Senior Despatch Rider

(1) Demonstrate that he knows the Highway Code, traffic signals, lighting-up times, road signs, National system of road numbering and is also able to read a road map.

(2) Own, or have the use of, a cycle, motor cycle or motor car.

(3) Be able to carry out running repairs to the cycle, motor cycle or car.

(4) Carry a verbal message of not less than 40 words and deliver correctly after a journey of at least 8km, in the course of which he must meet and deal with some emergency staged by the Examiner.

(5) Make a report, including a sketch map of the scene, on some emergency such as a motor accident, giving adequate details for the police and doctor.

(6) Write a message from dictation and deliver it to a point at least 8km away indicated only by map reference.


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