Advanced Driver Training
Effective. Measurable. Necessary. Advanced Driver Training that works for your business.
When you need people to drive for work purposes, safeguarding those drivers and keeping your motoring costs to a realistic minimum are likely to be high priorities.
How it works
We take the time to get to know you and understand your specific requirements.
We then advise on the most appropriate solutions, tailored to your business needs.
We meet your drivers from your office or other convenient location(s).
We put your drivers at their ease (after all, this is not a test!), and gain an understanding of their own challenges or concerns on the road, and how we can make their time with us as beneficial as possible.
Following vehicle and eyesight checks, we want to see ‘what we are working with’, so each training course starts with a brief Honesty Drive, i.e. without much input from us. This is deliberately relaxed, and has no bearing on the final risk appraisal: we are simply looking to see each driver’s existing strengths and weaknesses, so that we know where best to focus our input.
Only then can we tailor the specific content and intensity of training to each driver individually, which we believe to be critical in making the exercise (and your investment) truly beneficial.
Our training style is conversational and friendly, subtly encouraging drivers to become more engaged in the driving process, and in most cases making driving much more enjoyable for them. This helps to banish the all too common problem of people merely travelling on ‘auto pilot’.
We believe that drivers gain most benefit from practical application of new thought processes and techniques, so training sessions revolve around actual driving rather than classroom theory. Refreshment breaks are built into longer courses, so as to maintain concentration and comfort for all.
Where practical, we like to cover all key road types in training, yet are ever mindful to focus on the sorts of roads, areas or hazards most appropriate to each driver and client.
At the conclusion of training, we run through a comprehensive Risk Appraisal with each driver, based on the standard of skill and safety attained. This is forwarded to you for your HR and training records.
Several days after training, we email each driver to request their feedback on their time with us; ever keen to improve upon our 95% average feedback score over the last 10 years.
Key training techniques
Depending on specific objectives and driver ability, training frequently covers:
- Extending vision and advanced observation techniques
- Enhanced hazard perception and anticipation
- Making good decisions based on ever-changing information
- Managing distractions (hands-free phone calls, satellite navigation etc.)
- Management of space and time
- Achieving and maintaining a Safety Bubble
- Defensive planning using the police drivers’ System of Car Control
- Dynamic road positioning for safety and vision
- Effective communication with other road users
- Influencing other road users’ decisions for wider control
- Vehicle dynamics and the causes and effects of weight transfer
- Making safe, smooth and efficient progress
- Attitude and concentration
- Appropriate judgement and use of speed
- Polite, safe and appropriate overtaking techniques
- Limit point analysis (accurately assessing the severity of bends in the road ahead)
- Lines and signs (reading the road’s collision history)
- Vehicle and weather related conditions and considerations
Training Formats
Our standard training formats offer you the choice of:
- Half Day per driver
- Full Day per driver
- Full Day shared by 2 drivers (only in vehicles with rear seats); not available during the Coronavirus pandemic
Prices
Advanced driver training prices start at just £200 + VAT per driver
Why invest in advanced driver training?
- Because driving is by far the most dangerous working activity for most people in the UK.
- Many business drivers (such as engineers, managers, account handlers etc) are often inclined to be distracted, thinking about work or the purpose of their journey. This increases the risk they pose to themselves and others.
- The consequences of failing to adequately manage this risk can be very severe, in both direct and indirect costs; including potential exposure to prosecution if deemed to have not met your company’s Duty of Care obligations to those required to drive for work purposes.
- Effective advanced driver training promotes a safe driving culture that helps your staff make your business all the more efficient and productive, plus…
- Helps your drivers avoid collisions, including escaping those caused by other road users.
- Clients often tell us that our driver training pays for itself within 12 months, making for a sound return on investment.
What makes All Road Training your ideal fleet driver training partner?
- Focus on your objectives - we tailor our advanced driving courses to meet your business needs
- Leading trainers – we only employ vastly experienced, expert and highly engaging ADI fleet trainers
- We motivate and inspire drivers – the only way to change behaviour for long term gain and create real value
- Our satisfaction guarantee – we’re only satisfied when you are*
* We are fully committed to meeting your expectations and therefore warrant the quality of all driver training: put simply, if you don’t like what we do for you, we would not expect you to pay for it. Do get in touch for full details.
