Driving lessons, wrong time and place

I think your being slightly inconsiderate! I have been passed for a while now, I only had lessons mid-mornings because I was extremely nervous when I started especially about people being inconsiderate towards me and I regret it!! The first time I got stuck in rush hour traffic after I passed I just didn't know what to do, I stalled lots of times and caused trouble for cars around me. I only made all these mistakes because it was a new situation that I hadn't expierienced and facing the traffic on my own was daunting. Surely it would be better for learners to have lessons during rush hour, I know for a fact I would have caused less hassle if I had experienced more lessons during rush hour with my instructors help.

Having just recently passed, I know how daunting driving as a learner can be, and I am positive that having lessons during busy periods is an absolute must. Yes, it may inconvenience those of you who have been driving for years and are on your way to work, but I would much rather I had an instructor next to me, and I was in a dual controlled car, than I get left to my own devices in busy traffic without a clue what to do!

I am a learner and have been for about 2 months and I personally feel confident about roundabouts/junctions/driving in traffic etc. but I can understand if a learner has trouble getting their confidence up in a difficult situation, especially if it's on a gradient or in the rain. I was behind one who stalled twice at some traffic lights but it's nothing to get wound up about. We've all got to learn sometimes and some people should think back to how they felt when they were in a difficult situation

As the original poster says, learners need to have some experience before being taken on busy roads; and then maybe a short stretch where they can get on & off again fairly quickly to see how they get on would be in order. But they certainly do need the experience of a busy road sometime.

Maybe, just maybe, it's better for the learner to go out on a busy road with their instructor, rather than never doing it, getting a license then causing obstruction/danger once they're out on their own?

You need to calm down and have some patience. The world doesn't revolve around you.

Totally agree with the comments of ADI6/ Dave and Shea.
In addition the Instructor in question that held this poor motorist up, may have been a trainee instructor him/herself and new to the area/job!!
Maybe the student suddenly became nervous at the amount of traffic around them, there are various reasons why the situation ocurred. An experienced ADI would have structured the lesson, in the way Dave the Instructor has stated. But sometimes, humour nature can be unpredictable!
ADI Grade 6 /Instructor trainer/Dip Di/M.I.A.M/ Lgv C+E/Motorcycle.

If it's a 'busy A-road', presumably single carriageway, and you say that farm tractors and lorries frequently use it, then I think it very unlikely that the Learner car is the cause of your woes.
I feel SO sorry for you 'crawling along at 40'.
40 mph is actually around 60 feet, or nearly 5 car lengths, per second....
The cause is more likely to be those lorries: on a single carriageway road, they are legally limited to - yes, you guessed it - 40mph!
If this is such a regular problem, the answer is inevitably better journey planning, perhaps a different route or time? Every day I pass a long queue in the opposite direction, and I see the same cars, the same bored faces, drivers without the wit to change their route or time.

About the learner drivers in the rush hour. Some learners take very quickly to driving and can naturally progress to having the confidence to negotiate busy junctions, roundabouts etc... Others who make up a large percentage, will find any new scenario like this quite daunting and the only way to get over this is to practise and just do it. The driving instructor is not just teaching the pupil to work the controls in the car, they are getting the pupil ready for real life driving on real life roads including the rush hour. The instructor also needs to make a living and wouldn't do very well if he had to ban all his newer learners from peak time traffic!

That is really unfair, just because you have your licence and is confident about driving does not mean you can put learner drivers down, I'm a learner and I personally find roundabouts very intimidationg and get nervous whenever I approach one and it does not help when people like you give us so much hassle just because we're unexperienced and lack confidence when driving on them, so if it is a problem for you then why dont you just use public transport, because it really is not fair for you to say learners should not be taking lessons at a certain time, they are paying for the lesson so they should be free to use the roads when they want, afterall it is legal and this is a free country last time I checked!

learner drivers have just as much right to use any road at any time just as much as someone who has been driving for years that needs to get to work. roads like that are busy in morning and if you dont like being stuck in the rush hour traffic then leave earlier. learner drivers need to experience driving on any road at any time, how else are they suposed to experience driving in rush hour traffic. its drivers like you who put learners of by being steryotypical saying learners hold up traffic, just be patient like the hundred others who are going to work stuck in traffic.

If you don't like it then take a bus. Problem solved.