Charging for driving lessons without being an ADI - It's illegal

For the guy who found my site yesterday while searching for this - it's illegal.

Unless you are a PDI (someone most of the way through the exams to become an ADI and registered as such with the DSA) then teaching anyone to drive a car under any circumstances (on or off road, full license holder or provisional) for money (or money's worth) is illegal.

There's quite a few companies doing this under the guise of track training, car control training, even some of the fleet guys use people who aren't ADIs to do this.

The fact is, it's still illegal.

There's even government approved training providers who do this and large organisations who advocate this.

But it is illegal.

I've even been on courses which practically sanction this and train us to train "assessors". If they assess then that's fine, but as soon as they offer any kind of solution to a fault recognised by the assessment then......

.....it's illegal.

Instructors and mobile phones

Yep, one of the bugbears that really gets me.

Would you want to learn to drive with someone who broke driving law consistently?

Would you want to learn to drive with someone who answered their phone while driving - even though it has been shown to be more dangerous than being over the drink-driving limit?

Well why would you call an instructor who only advertised his mobile number then?

There are 2 guys near me who are consistently on the phone while driving (despite the laws, the warnings and the sheer stupidity of it), and both of them only advertise themselves using their mobile numbers.

Dim or what?

If you want a driving instructor - don't phone one who doesn't have a land line number.

Driving Instructors who only advertise their mobile numbers

Why do they do this? We're not allowed to answer the things while we work, so why not put a landline number down? You can access messages just as well through this as you can on the mobile

Driving Instructor Road Rage

As a driving instructor - you're on the road for anything up to 12 hours a day - you see some stupid stuff going on.

So when can you legitimately lose your temper with other drivers?

When they cut you up? When they don't signal? When they beep your pup for taking all of .00006 seconds too long to set off from the traffic lights?

The answer is never.

We all know this, but after a long week when you're struggling and can almost see the skills you're working on sinking in - that w*nker in the 4x4 who honks, overtakes and shouts out his window can just tip you over the edge.

I've seen some pretty silly reactions from instructors too. One instructor forced the tailgater to run into him by braking (I know, I know, but hell I laughed!), one instructor I know has the most imaginative hand gestures for everyone around him, and another one leans around his seat and films them with his mobile and sends it to the police.

All of these are satisfying solutions to the problem, but they all have one thing in common - they all lose customers to me.

Yep - if there's one way of really freaking your pups out it's not staying calm.

Prove to everyone that you're better than they are - rise above it.