What has driver training got to do with driving? This may seem to be a very bizarre statement coming from a driver trainer. However, if you already hold a full driving license you already know how to drive. Accepting you may have picked up a few bad habits over your driving career, do you really need someone telling you how to drive?
What is the difference between an apprentice on the day they qualify in whatever trade they have chosen and the day they retire? For example, the novice cabinet maker at the start of their career who retires at the end of their career as a master cabinet maker.
Experience from self or others?
How do we get experience as drivers? Is all experience good or do we need the right experience?
Do we really need to know how to make sustained gears changes from 5th to 3rd, or understand the limit point to make us safe drivers? Or have some trainer sat next to us tutting every time we omit to check our mirrors, make a notchy gear change or forget how to drive because of the immense pressure we feel under during the training session?
It is more important for the trainer to provide learning opportunities which encourage self reflection and develop self awareness. What about understanding how our personality influences our driving style and what we can do to ‘check ourselves’ when under pressure or before things go wrong so that we stay safe.
For example, learning how not to react to other road users by thinking about and using techniques to help us to stay focused on the driving task.
Fleet and Company Driver Training with Celtic Driver Training is not about physical driving skills but is an opportunity to empower your drivers to reflect upon their driving, learning to recognise what ‘pushes their buttons’ and exploring strategies which can be used to manage or avoid situational experiences which have previously caused frustration, anger, negative or dangerous responses. Thereby reducing risk and promoting road user safety.
“Good driver training is about encouraging drivers to think for themselves, to honestly reflect upon their driving and learning from experience to stay safe.”
www.celtcidrivertraining.co
