Ten Tips on Choosing Your Irish Driving Instructor.
First of all let’s examine why you would need a Driving Instructor in order to learn how to drive. Sure everyone needs a teacher, advisor or instructor, don’t they, when facing up to a new challenge? Or do they? Which comes first, the Chicken or the Egg?
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 the deep end if you had never been in the water before?
Categories: Car Tips Tags: Driving Instructor, Driving School, Driving Tests, Learner Drivers, Motorway, Tuition
Show Me – Tell Me: The New Technical Checks of the Irish Driving Test.
The latest round of changes to the Irish Driving Test were implemented on, Feb.14th 2005, as part of a chain of E.U.Directives.
Test Candidates are now required to have a basic level of mechanical knowledge, which any good professional School of Motoring would have been teaching from day one in any event.
The car of today is a very different beast compared with its grandparents and any driver, young or old, should have a range of skills that enable them to identify problems and take the necessary remedial action.
Categories: Car Tips Tags: Driving School, E.U.Directives, Irish Driving Test, Show-me Tell-me, Technical Checks
Non Nationals Driving in Ireland
It is extremely important for all non – national Drivers or all those who are contemplating taking up Driving in Ireland for the first time to acquaint themselves with all the regulations before starting off! Ireland, as a member of the European Union, has strict standards which are evolving continuously and ignorance of the rules, regulations, and legislation is no excuse in breaking the Law! It is worth pointing out that because of many insurance breaches and the incessant rate of accidents on the roads ,that we are all paying an excessive rate for our Car insurance .When this situation continues to improve we will all benefit .
In the next few lines we will summarise under headings the steps that a new aspiring Driver must take in order to legally drive on the road.
(1) License Requirements
(2) Theory Test
(3) Provisional license
(4) Road Tax for vehicle
(5) Insurance
(6) National Car Test (NCT)
(7) Tyres
(8) The Driving Test
(9) Foreign License Transfer
Categories: Car Tips Tags: Driver Theory Test, driving, Driving in Ireland, Driving School, Driving Test, Learner Drivers, Non-Nationals
First Steps for the Irish Learner Driver.
The main priority for today’s Learner Driver should not be passing the Driving Test but embracing the philosophy of skills for life initially.
Surely passing the Driving Test is the main objective? Not So!
Your main objective should be to acquire the necessary skills that will keep you, your passengers and all other road users safe. This makes sense, but is not taken on board by a very large proportion of Irish learner Drivers, with the result that we have an appalling accident record here which impacts on the whole community.