Driving Lessons

When choosing a driving school, look beyond the initial sales pitch.

Basically don’t get suckered in by a free DVD or a free Highway Code, both of which cost a few pounds from any where - don’t pay for a block of lessons up front before you know what your instructor is like.

What if you pay for say 10 lessons to get a cheap rate and on the first lesson you decide you don’t like the driving instructor, basically you’ve already paid so you will probably continue. What then happens is that you begin to hate your lessons and in many cases this leads to giving up driving altogether - what a disaster!

In stead just go for a few lessons paying the normal hourly rate, this will give you the opportunity to decide if you want to continue to learn with that instructor but without the burden of knowing you have to stay with them.  During this time, it will give you chance to see what they are like, do they turn on on time for the lesson, do they answer your questions, are they teaching you anything, and probably most importantly - do you get on with them!

Try before you buy!!

When choosing a driving school, it can be confusing with many different deals on offer.

What you must remember is that you don’t get anything for nothing and that all driving instructors are self employed. Why is this important, well think about it - if driving instructors are self employed and they are very good at their job then they can charge more for their services. If they are not very good and are desperate for work, then they tend to charge less for their services. What tends to happend when an instructor charges much less than the market in their area is that they make you have more lessons to compensate them. An example of how this works and how it effects your total driving lesson costs can be found here. 

Also never sign up to any pre-paid driving lessons before you have had a couple of lessons with that instructor, because what happens if you don’t get on with them. You will either have to carry on having lessons that you hate or loose your money - you have been warned.

Try to choose a driving school based on their reputation and not by how cheap you think their lessons are!