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List Price: £14.99
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Manufacturer: Stationery Office Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.2830883632
EAN: 9780117021686
ISBN: 0117021687
Label: Stationery Office Books
Manufacturer: Stationery Office Books
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 2007-11-30
Publisher: Stationery Office Books
Studio: Stationery Office Books
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Roadcraft is the official Police Drivers Handbook and is used by the police to train police. It is also the recognised bible for advanced and emergency response driver training and essential reading for driving instructors and any driver wishing to improve their skills and safety to a more advanced level. Roadcraft aims to help people become better drivers by increasing awareness of all factors that affect driving the capability of the driver, characteristics of the vehicle, and the road and traffic conditions. Roadcraft has been fully revised and redesigned to include current best practice in police driving and learning design. It incorporates the best parts of the older editions with the latest knowledge in this rapidly developing field. Roadcraft has been prepared in close consultation with a working group of senior police driving instructors and other police and civilian advance driver training experts.
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Summary: A book for every good driver
Comment: Don't be fooled by the new cover on the most recent issue of Roadcraft. This book is not just for Advanced Police drivers but for everyone who has a keen interest in driving and for driving safely. As a traffic cop myself it is the bible for all the courses, however, it also takes drivers who have passed the DVLA standard test and through very well laid out sections, teaches them a whole different approach to their driving.
Without giving too much away, it teaches drivers to adopt a proven system of car control which WILL improve anticipation and observation skills dramatically amongst many other things.
A very worthwhile read indeed.
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Summary: The Police Driver's Handbook
Comment: For anybody interested in motoring, it gives an insight into advanced driving techniques. For those of us who passed their driving test when Adam was a lad, it is well worth a read. An excellent and well written book.
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Summary: Excellent
Comment: A very necessary book to take u on from the basic test. Do not think that this will teach u all the art of high speed driving and fast car attitudes as it wont. But stops short for obvious reasons so u will get as much as legally possible to make u a very well improved driver. This book is used not only by Police driving schools but also international drivers as well. The whole Police advanced course is based and tested on this book u will not go wrong. A good supplement to this is the roadcraft DVD which covers the book visually. I have used this book for over 15 years and highly recommend it.
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Summary: Roadcraft - honest opinion
Comment: This book covers all the relevant knowledge required for safe,systematic driving and as the book describes, the safe use of "driving to the system". It helps everyone finally understand why it is their driving that causes accidents and not the vehicles they drive. It covers cornering,steering, use of gears, overtaking (which is legal you know, regardless of people sticking their fingers up at you for doing it and flashing you when you have plenty of room and don't sacrifice anyones safety to do it !), skidding and how to correct it and much more including drivers behaviours and tips on how to generally drive safely (not necessarily slowly !). It enables any driver to observe everything around him, anticipate any hazards before its too late. This book is well worth a read if you are not the most confident of drivers or indeed you have had a few accidents and think you have learnt because the stats in this book will shock you. The only criticism of this book is that to explain a relatively straight forward task, does involve long winded words, which for some people they would find taxing and quite boring. But with a dictionary to hand, you would be fine. If it is used to train police officers, which i think from what i see living in London everyday, it does a good job ! enjoy. AW.
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Summary: Read & Read Again
Comment: Before you get in a car it is worth while reading this Handbook. It is simple things like Cornering & stopping positions that we ALL take for granted. This book covers most topics with Illustrations.When you read the book again after it all fits in to place. It perhaps won't make you a better driver, but a safer one!!
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