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Minibus Training
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Company Car Driver Training
Three Shires Driving Centre is your local, leading independent, qualified driver training centre. From driving company cars, minibuses and accessible vehicles as well as towing, get safely qualified with the friendly experts at Three Shires Driving Centre.
Minibus – MiDAS – Fleet – we cover Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and bordering areas and further afield on request
Intensive or crash courses
We are asked regularly about these types of courses where have all your lessons in a short period of time. Firstly of course you need to pass your theory and hazard perception tests so that we can book your practical test. If you have no driving experience then we feel this type of course is not for you, this is because you will have nothing to reflect on in the early stages. Learning to drive depends on you having time to reflect between lessons and for the new information you have been given to be fully understood, can you imagine starting on a Monday with your test on Friday with no time between lessons to think back and establish understanding! If on the other hand you have had some driving experience then the learning process is much quicker. So regular lessons, say two two-hour...
Driver’s Medical Appraisal
Have you heard of this? I must admit we thought it was a driving appraisal conducted by a driving instructors at driving assessment centres for those with disabilities. Able bodied drivers can be asked by the DVLA to have an appraisal following a change of health or following a crash. There does not have to be a medical reason for the appraisal. What we didn't know was that these appraisals are held at the DSA's test centres now, the schemes which started earlier this year and are conducted by specially trained examiners (usually Driving Test Area Managers or Sector Managers) who have four marking criteria to follow 1 Competent and Safe 2 Safe and Responsible with Minor Lapses 3 Important Lapses 4 Dangerous, these covering a similar 'list' as the 'L' test. The rest of the test...
Your Seven Part Guarantee
1. You will get a fully qualified instructor
2. You will get all the help you need with your Theory and Hazard Perception tests, Oh! and of course your driving. Others leave you to do the Theory etc. on your own.
3. You will have a training record to show you how well you are doing
4. All lessons are on a one to one basis, If you like the idea of learning with a friend we see nothing wrong with that, it saves you money, reduces learning time and helps build confidence. We will never pair you up with a stranger, the request for two to one training has to come from you or your organisation see T’s & C’s.
5. Getting it wrong is all part of the learning process, we don’t shout or bite!!
6. We set you achievable goals. (with a bit of hard work)
7. No Gimmicks:- You want to learn – We want to teach. Come give us a try