Ask most 17 to 19 year olds why they have not passed their driving test yet and the answer is rarely about ability or effort. It is usually, quite simply, about time. Weekly lessons booked around school, college, a part-time job and a social life that finally feels like your own can easily stretch a […]
Changing career often means starting from a position of not knowing much, and for a growing number of career changers that now includes driving. Perhaps the new role needs a licence from the first week. Perhaps it just makes the commute possible, or opens up jobs that were off the table without one. Either way, […]
If you are in your early twenties and still without a licence, you are not behind some invisible schedule. You are simply at the point where the cost of not driving, in time, in lifts, in jobs you cannot take, has started to outweigh the effort of sorting it. Here are the questions people in […]
Most people learning to drive in their thirties are not late. They are doing it at the point where not driving finally started to cost them something. The obstacles at this stage are fairly predictable, which is good news, because it means you can deal with them one at a time. Here is what usually […]
Most people looking at an intensive course in their forties want the same thing answered first, and it is not the syllabus. It is what this costs, whether the number quoted is the number they pay, and how a week of driving is supposed to fit around a job and a household. So let us […]
Learning to drive at fifty, sixty or seventy is an ordinary thing for an instructor’s diary, not a curiosity. People come to it after a bereavement, after a move somewhere with two buses a day, after a partner stops driving, or because it has been on the list since 1987 and the list has finally […]
For a lot of parents, the decision to finally learn to drive is less about freedom in the abstract and more about the school run, the shop that is not on a bus route, and the childcare rota that only works if someone can get there by car. An intensive course fits this life reasonably […]
If your diary is already full of client calls, deadlines and travel, learning to drive one hour a week for the best part of a year is not an appealing prospect, and for a lot of professionals it simply never happens. An intensive course changes the shape of the commitment: instead of a standing weekly […]
Relying on buses, trams and other people’s cars in a city is manageable until it is not, a cancelled service before an early shift, a lift that falls through, a journey that should take twenty minutes taking fifty because of a diversion. Plenty of city dwellers get by without driving for years. The question is […]
Living somewhere rural changes the maths on learning to drive twice over. It makes the licence worth more, because the alternative is a bus that runs on Tuesdays and a taxi fare that costs more than the shopping. And it makes the learning itself harder to arrange, because instructors, test centres and available slots all […]
