Would you go out and Order an expensive Steinway Piano, never having played a note? Would you go to your local swimming pool and jump in deep end if you had never been in water before?

Would you ring up your local light Aircraft Company and order a Cessna for next day delivery and ask them to have it tanked up and ready to go?

How about booking a two week scuba Diving holiday in Aegean when all your experience to date is a deck chair on beach at Torremolinos? All of above scenarios are about as inconceivable as you can possibly imagine; yet thousands of Irish learner Drivers are doing equivalent every day of week. Why so? Well it is a combination of previously lax laws and now that we do actually have some legislation heading us in roughly right direction, inability of Garda to enforce them .Yes we have had a good deal of changes to our system of Driving Tests and Licensing recently but Mandatory tuition has yet to be enacted. When it is introduced, hopefully we will be on slow uphill climb to some degree of motoring competence instead of current Motoring mayhem which we currently enjoy.

Let’s now have a look at type of Instructor you should be looking for.

1.Look through Golden Pages and try to make a short list of those Driving Schools with a Web Site. You could of course, do a quick search on Google using various search terms. A School with a web site is one who takes their profession seriously and who will provide quite a lot of free, but invaluable information .Do not regard a web site as purely a smart way of attracting more pupils. Look at it as a way of getting some valuable info, together with an inside peek at who Instructor might be, and how he or she does business.

2.Look for a school with qualified Instructors. Now in Ireland at present, but not for long, anyone can call themselves a qualified Instructor, never having so much as looked at an advanced Driving Course or taken any Examinations. We have The Driving Instructor Register here which has been examining Driving Tutors on a voluntary basis since 1996 .A good number of Driving Instructors have passed these exams and will be able to impart an advanced level of tuition.

3.Don’t just ring up a Driving School and with your first sentence ask what prices are your lessons. You are perfectly entitled to query prices, which will be very much same from all established Schools. Schools that have not been established for long or who are desperate for business will be sometimes somewhat cheaper. Any one that is substantially less than bunch should be avoided since this is not a profession that is cheap to run and today you get what you pay for .Cheap lessons are exactly that!

Like many of my generation, we normally got cars for our graduation. I was lucky, as my dad worked for Rolls Royce and head mechanic there, Johnny T was selling this fantastic car. Now this wasn’t just any 1962 Chevy Belair. Since Johnny T was an avid fisherman and didn’t want to ruin upholstery he covered cloth upholstery with a blue vinyl one. Johnny also put in all instrumentation needed on inside of car, oil and temp gauge, and tach. He also installed a blinker system, so blinkers were on hood. The final coupe de grace was putting Rolls Royce seat belts in car. Since Johnny was a great mechanic and of course, did all his own work, when he sold us car he included extra tires and all materials to keep brakes up to par for many years to come.

I can remember my first drive in car. I pulled out of my drive way and drove over to park a couple blocks away, too, of course, show it off to all my friends.