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Interesting what you say about Britz and training. I have a deal with Britz thru the Austarlian 4wd Training Network, of which I am a memeber, to train all thier inbound 4x4 rentals. This deal has been inforce in Australia wide since 2001 so far i have trained only 5 ppl for Britz as it is not compulsory. Britz lose so much down time due to acidents in NQ it is ridiculous yet they still don't insist on offroad training for thier rentals. 5 tourists were killed in the Cairns area last year. Britz' manager here would like to see all tourists get some basic form of training but ppl assume that because they can drive, they can drive anything any where.
Its time someone stood up and was counted as far as driver training for European and American tourists go to prevent them killing and maiming themselves and us. A classic example of this is about 2 years ago a german couple hired a 4wd from a multinational hire company to cross the Simpson Desert, they paid the money and were given the keys no questions asked, to me no duty of care. They got bogged in sand in the desert and the girl decided to walk out and sbsequently died, the male was found with the car a few days later and the rescuers let the tyres down and drove out. Basic 4wd training would prevent situations such as this. Cheers robCairns Offroad Training & Tours

gday all
its not just tyres not let down have seen 3 or4 here in wa inclueding 1 very high profile incident 2 where 2 young guys died where just by looking at the vehicle you could see the buggers had not even got the hubs locked in,rob email with contact adress or phone number i have some info re 4wd traing that may interest you address is bruce @budgetsigns.biz
regards Bruce

Hi Rob

I thought the desert one was the cause of compulsory training, or did the gov bleep their pants and pull out, and make it 'suggested'??

There was a lot of hoo haa at the time about compulsory training but nothing ever came of it. One of the problems was that it would be made reciprocal ie we would have to be trained to be able to hire a car OS probably a sensible alternative. This was one of the reasons I went back to school and completed a Cert IV in training and assessment. As from 07\03 we were told that everyone driving a 4WD commercially would have to have done a Nationally Recognised 4WD course or risk huge insurance litigation and payouts. So far very little has come of it tho some of my customers Telstra , Ergon Enery, Main Roads have relised the benefits and come on board.
Cheers Rob
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I know this is getting off the track (so's to speak) however what I have seen of these Britz vehicle that are usually hired by Europeans doing is nothing short of stupidity. I agree totally that the company should have some duty of care to train these people and at least supply some sort of recovery equipment. We saw a number of them in Cape York and they did not even have a snatch strap. And if that was not scary enough we even saw one try to tackle "Gunshot" and the driver was in high range 2WD because he did not know how to put it in 4WD.