I WAS highly entertained by your Horror Highways feature (Globe, June 8) and pretty much agreed with all the comments your reporter made.

However, there is another menace on the roads out there that we also need to deal with.

I'm talking about the scourge that is the Dreaded Learner Driver (DLD).

I write this letter on a Thursday morning, having just arrived - late - at my office for the fourth time this week, due to being held up in already busy peak-time traffic while a DLD bunny-hops away from traffic lights, stalls on roundabouts or sits shivering with fright at a right-hand turn. Yesterday, the DLD had waited an age before deciding to pass a parked bus - and even then only decided to make his move once the bus had actually started to move again anyway, meaning he and the increasingly tetchy mile-long queue of qualified motorists behind him had to furiously slam on the brakes.

Before I get shot down in flames by those reminding me that I, too, had to learn to drive once, just hold your horses.

When I was learning, it wasn't between the hours of 7am and 9am when people were trying to get to work, or during the evening rush home, either.

I learned at weekends, or lunch hours, or evenings.

I had a great instructor who wasn't so grasping that he would take his pupils out at any hour just for the sake of another £20 and to hell with everyone else.

As a company director, I find it bizarre that anyone would try to run a business in such a haphazard manner.

Here's an idea: why don't we just ban learners from our roads during weekday peak times?

And here's another one: the roads are nice and empty in the middle of the night, especially on the learner driver course that is New Brighton promenade, so why not get your lazy backsides out of bed and learn then?

Seething Motorist,

Caldy.

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