To join IAM it's £149 (IIRC) including the cost of your Test Fee, plus you'll need to join your local group.
In the Lincs area the threshold is lower. You need I think 2 years experience.What's more is they give you the bike for the time you are on call, and all the appropriate weather gear. No requirement to be member of any advanced group or qualification.
Add the fact the IAM and many others, are just businesses nowadays, it's all just about money, i.e you've got to be reassessed and it costs..................
What's more is they give you the bike for the time you are on call, and all the appropriate weather gear.
I have never had to be re-assessed on the car side and still pay my £20 a year membership just in case they come up with a good deal jut never bothered getting my "green" card to match the "red" one.
Quote from: Middy2000 on 25 August 2020, 04:01:33 pmWhat's more is they give you the bike for the time you are on call, and all the appropriate weather gear. Some areas you have to provide your own bike initially but then after a number of years they put you through the blue light course and lend you the marked up bike when on call. Other areas do not have a blue light bike.
although you get a blue light bike (as far as I was aware ) you are not allowed to use them and they are just for show but do get peoples attention even when not on.
b1k3rdude seems to think you do now, as he's research is normally on the money.
Why would BB waste thier & money time putting you on a course to get said bike and then not let you use it.
Blood deliveries aren't emergency services, if they need it that fast they would give it to the police or fly it. That said it's up to the police officer at the time or camera and/or a court.
Some areas you have to provide your own bike initially
SERV Herts & Beds and its Trustees and personnel shall not be liable in any way for the loss of any consignment nor for delays in delivery. Outside the site(s) owned by a Trust, it shall not be liable for any injury to any SERV Herts & Beds Rider/Driver, nor for any damage to a vehicle.
And I assume that joining the local group would also incur a fee?
Also Members must declare their intention to use their vehicle(s) for SERV operations to their insurance provider. [...]But in my exp. insure co. are more than not, arseholes and will increase my premium.
if I remember right you had to buy and fit your own rack / box system hich would be permanent on your bike.
I wont be going any further with this myself. I appreciate that it is a charity but I can't reconcile the requirements and the lack of legal cover for my bike or my person with SERV Beds&Herts. I can only guess thats because the SE (herts in particular) is a wealthier part of the country, that the rules/requirements are so strikingly different between regions.