BBC 3 Barely Legal Drivers

One of my pupils on a driving lesson the other day mentioned “Barely Legal Drivers”, a series on BBC3 and started explaining some of the things she had seen in the last episode. Thinking that she must have been dramatizing her account of it, I took a look at the...

Bay Parking on Driving Lessons

How To Practise Bay Parking Bay parking in car parks is very likely to be the most performed manoeuvre that you will need to do once you have passed your driving test. This video here, offers you some tips for different ways of doing bay parking, and how to practise...

Reverse Parallel Park

Stages of the Reverse Parallel Park This video shows you the stages of the Reverse Parallel Park. With practise this becomes more fluid and less mental effort is needed to identify the timing of each stage and to actually perform the necessary actions. [videoembed...

Best Way to Learn to Drive

A handy blog exploring the best way to learn to drive This blog explains the key differences between learning to drive on a Pay As You Go basis compared to an Intensive Driving Course. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) state in their ‘Learning To Drive’...

Are We Losing Our Drive to Drive?

The number of UK people taking the practical driving test has decreased 12% since 2007/8. Recent research indicates 41% of UK car owners are driving less due to the costs of driving. What does this mean?  Is driving becoming less “fashionable”? Absolutely not! The...