LaughingKookaburra wrote:Psyber wrote:LaughingKookaburra wrote:It’s easy to say it in hindsight, however what the hell is a 75 year old doing driving a road train? You can argue he has been through testing ect to keep his license, however biologically at 75 no one is able to make the decisions they were doing even 5-8 years earlier and by no way would they be safe enough to drive a heavy vehicle of that size for such a long distance. I’d be interested to see how common this is?
I tend to agree about the road train - I don't think I'd try that - but you can't be totally arbitrary about age.
I'm still driving my Renault Megane RS 265 at age 80. It is a 6 speed manual and does 0-100 in 6.5 seconds - faster if I switch to "race mode" but I rarely use that. My wife (aged 74) and I just recently drove a Kia Sportage diesel manual around Ireland too. And my mother-in-law is still running a yacht at the Royal Yacht Squadron at 92.
There is a lot of variation to ageing. I went to an event with my graduating year on medicine recently. I'm fit and healthy and have no current illness or disability and still have brown hair while another guy my age was bald, shaky, and in a wheel chair.
Completely understand your point and I’m not going to quiz your back ground, however you aren’t driving that car everyday 100’s of kms a day as a job - Even then it’s not the same as driving a road train (As you mentioned) . I just personally believe that no one at that age should be driving a road train long distances whilst doing shift work. Whilst you can’t prejudge, there is no way even the fittest 75 year olds are able to concentrate religiously day in, day out behind the wheel of a vehicle like that and make critical decisions continuously. It’s easy to say it now as I said, I was just genuinely shocked and I get that it’s in people’s blood.
I agree with that.