Driver Development Training and Assessment

CTA advises callers to the Advice Line, that this attempt to find a loophole in the law is extremely ill advised. To rely on the volunteer derogation the driver must not receive any payment for driving the vehicle. The debatable point is whether a care assistant can really claim to be volunteering when they are driving a vehicle that has the clients on board they are normally paid to assist. Similarly with teachers, driving pupils they are paid to teach. We are of the view that a prosecution for `driving otherwise than in accordance with' their licence would be successful and would therefore automatically invalidate the insurance, apart from attracting points on the licence and a fine. No case law exists, as no one has yet been prosecuted. However, it seems to be a risk that is not worth taking.