When a young person turns 17 there is a feeling in the UK that this is a right of passage to learn to drive. Many feel that a driving instructor has one job, and that is to teach them to drive. This, however, is just
Health of a driving instructor during the lockdown
Apart from key worker training no driving instructor has been allowed to teach during the coronavirus pandemic. All in all that means the majority of the 43000 qualified ADIs across the country have not been working since mid March. Although we haven’t as yet been
Diary of a Driving Instructor coping with the Coronavirus
The coronavirus has effected every aspect of life but how has the last couple of weeks changed the life of a driving instructor? With the worldwide crisis there have been daily changes in what we can and cant do, both personally and with our businesses.
Driving Instruction & Private Parental Practice
To train to become a approved driving instructor (ADI) is a long, hard and expensive process. I have been lucky to recruit and train many instructors and without exception at the beginning of the training it is quite a shock as to exactly what the
Reasons to take a refresher course
A high percentage of students we teach as Approved Driving Instructors (ADI’s) are 17 year olds. We all know that turning 17 and taking your driving test is a right of passage of sorts but with the escalating cost of driving fewer drivers are actually
Local School Driving School Franchises
In the first part of this blog we discussed how at first glance being part of a large national driving school isnt always as advantageous as it seems. In this part we will see how the smaller local driving school can give you a much
Big School Driving School Franchises
Approved Driving Instructor (ADI) After the long and hard road to get qualified as an Approved Driving Instructor (ADI) each of us is faced with a difficult decision to instruct as an independent or to be part of a franchise. This decision is often based
