NSW is currently the only state in which drivers aged 85 and over still have to undergo a driving test every second year.

The president of the local Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association said it was a case of elderly drivers being discriminated against.

"And I think it's discrimination of a very nasty kind," he said.

"They're discriminating against senior citizens who have done the right thing over many years on the road.

"It's unfair. Why should we be tested when we've served the community well? We should be respected.

"What we're objecting to is that most older drivers are experienced, we know the law and we are not pulled up by police.

"I've been driving for 60 years and never had an offence, why should I be targeted for testing?"

John said NSW should follow the lead of other states and scrap the mandatory testing for senior drivers.

"It should be dropped as not only is it discriminatory, but it's discriminatory in the fact that I have to be tested in my own state yet drivers from another state can drive across the border.

"Where's the fairness in that?"

John said drivers who had the most experience and good safety records shouldn't be targeted.

"Most of us have been driving for many years. I regard myself as cautious and that's the difference between younger drivers, they haven't learnt to be cautious whereas older drivers generally are," he said.

"They are targeting the wrong age group, it's the red P-platers that should be the ones getting tested.

"They are testing the wrong age group."

Government statistics released in 2010 back up Mr Newell's claim.

"The NSW Government had a White Paper in 2010 that recommended there was no point in having over 85s testing, because they're no more likely to cause accidents than other age groups," he said

"And the statistics featured in the White Paper showed this, as I looked at the statistics myself and those drivers don't cause any more accidents than other age groups."

Mr Newell said his association wasn't adverse to senior drivers having health checks if it was warranted.

"We agree with medical testing, that's marvellous but we definitely don't support driver testing," he said.

"I understand there are older drivers who have lost it (driving ability), but they're a minority."

Mr Newell recalled the sad case of one of his association's members who had his licence taken away.

"One of our former members lived on Mitchells Island and suddenly they told him he couldn't drive anymore," he said.

"He used to come to all meetings, but he couldn't anymore.

"The sad thing is he died within a year, and I think it broke his heart not being able to come to our meetings anymore.

"He loved the companionship and loved the meetings."

Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association member Mike Stone spent a great deal of his life driving trucks, mainly from Sydney to Melbourne.

The 82-year-old is tested each year because of the vehicle he currently drives, a motor home classed as light rigid vehicle.

With all his experience of driving heavy vehicles, Mike can't understand why he needs annual testing to drive his motor home.

"It's a waste of time as were are the only state which does," he said

"And of the 50 states in the USA, 49 don't," he said.

"I want to know why the NSW Government is against NSW drivers and yet drivers from other states can come here and drive."

Mike said there was a groundswell of support across the State to get rid of the senior drivers testing.

"I spoke to someone from the NRMA and they said there had been getting numerous calls from across the State about this," he said.

"But it is too fragmented. If we can get them all together then we can do something about it."