feeds from drivinginstructors.com.au http://drivinginstructors.com.au/rss/ en-au http://drivinginstructors.com.au/rss/ http://drivinginstructors.com.au/static/campfire/layouts/images/omg-logo-small.png http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2011/3/27/conquering-the-fab-four/ Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news Helen Hayes and her family check the stunning resorts around Queenstown. WE'RE not avid skiers and certainly don't talk the language. We don't know about "vertical drops", don't want to venture "off piste" and think corduroy is something you wear. One thing we do know is that when we ski, we love it, so we decided to cross "the ditch" to see what Queenstown and Wanaka had to offer.Queenstown is gobsmackingly gorgeous; its township spread around the glassy Lake Wakat ...

Helen Hayes and her family check the stunning resorts around Queenstown.

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2011/3/26/anything-but-walk-in-park/ Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news IT HAS become part of the Australian Grand Prix tradition.Mercedes-Benz boss Horst Von Sanden writes a very large cheque to the Australian Grand Prix Corporation and, in return gets an empty, pristine grand prix circuit for one day - a motoring utopia called Albert Park.Into this place they bring 34 sporty AMG production cars worth around $7.6 million and assemble a collection of AMG owners and enthusiasts, celebrities and motoring journos. As well, they bring together 34 racing drivers, includi ...

IT HAS become part of the Australian Grand Prix tradition.

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2011/3/26/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-embrace-the-reprieve/ Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news I LEFT the house with a steady purposeful stride, and crept back, head bowed, three hours later. The cat looked up at me as I opened the front door. "Mummy failed," I pronounced sepulchrally. She sniffed my knee and blinked.The driving test had gone so well until . . . "Pull over," said the inspector, and that was that. Ignominiously driven back to the VicRoads office, and a tram ride home. I hadn't necessarily expected to pass, but failing — ...

I LEFT the house with a steady purposeful stride, and crept back, head bowed, three hours later. The cat looked up at me as I opened the front door. "Mummy failed," I pronounced sepulchrally. She sniffed my knee and blinked.

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2011/3/12/overtaken-by-doubt-as-life-changes-direction/ Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news THE office of VicRoads had a tense atmosphere. There was a short queue for the driving tests counter: three people in front of me, looking casual, jangling with nerves. I got to the counter. "I'm here for a thingie," I said, and proffered my crumpled printout."Hazard perception test?" The woman hardly glanced at it before checking a computer. "Booth 67. Just sit down and it'll start."At five computer stations people were hunched forward, earphones on, concentrating ...

THE office of VicRoads had a tense atmosphere. There was a short queue for the driving tests counter: three people in front of me, looking casual, jangling with nerves. I got to the counter. "I'm here for a thingie," I said, and proffered my crumpled printout.

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2011/3/5/the-lure-of-the-deep/ Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news THEY call it "laying new line". And in the language of cave divers, it is about marking virgin territory, going where no one has gone before you. And it's what drives you.On the day that Agnes Milowka died, she achieved this goal again, as she had many times before. Last Sunday, she went to a place she had been to often — Tank Cave, near Mount Gambier, in South Australia — one of the best spots for cave diving in Australia.She got what she came for, laying new l ...

THEY call it "laying new line". And in the language of cave divers, it is about marking virgin territory, going where no one has gone before you. And it's what drives you.

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2011/2/12/far-away-in-time/ Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news Beyond red dust and pindan, Cameron Wilson tags turtles at an eco-beach resort south of Broome. Flying in over Roebuck Bay, the view is of an unfathomable expanse of blood-red desert floor carpeted by wattles and eucalypts - a unique landscape known as "pindan" in the local Aboriginal language. Nearing the coast, the desert lightens from red to ochre, shot through with bright-orange ribbons of dust that take the form of roads, gun-barrel straight to the horizon and beyond.Then, without ...

Beyond red dust and pindan, Cameron Wilson tags turtles at an eco-beach resort south of Broome.

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2011/2/11/dumbrells-team-gives-luff-a-second-chance/ Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news ABU DHABI: Today's opening race of the V8 Supercars season at the Yas Marina Circuit will be Warren Luff's first as a full-time driver since 2006, but he is back with plenty to prove driving for Lucas Dumbrell's Gulf Western Oil Racing team.The former V8 rookie of the year was on board with defending champion James Courtney for last year's endurance rounds and seized his opportunity, helping Courtney to secure the title before ending the season on a high with three rounds for Dumbrell.It was eno ...

ABU DHABI: Today's opening race of the V8 Supercars season at the Yas Marina Circuit will be Warren Luff's first as a full-time driver since 2006, but he is back with plenty to prove driving for Lucas Dumbrell's Gulf Western Oil Racing team.

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2010/2/6/salary-spotlight/ Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST news DRIVING INTRUCTORSIf you teach anyone how to drive a motor vehicle for money, reward or other remuneration, you must hold a driving instructor's licence. Obtaining a licence is a rigorous process. Applicants must complete certificate IV in driving instruction and pass a driving test, theory test and health and police checks. Driving instructors instruct individuals and groups in the theory and application of driving motor vehicles. Tasks carried out by those brave enough to be employed in this i ...

DRIVING INTRUCTORS

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2009/7/13/learner-drivers-not-as-good-as-they-think-they-are/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST news LEARNER drivers are over-confident and less skilled than they believe they are, says an NRMA survey of more than 700 learners to be released today.Instructors and learner drivers were asked what skills they thought they needed more training in. In almost all areas, instructors indicated learners needed more training than the drivers believed.Instructors said 43 per cent of students had difficulty observing speed limits but less than 20 per cent of boys, and 10 per cent of girls, believed they ne ...

LEARNER drivers are over-confident and less skilled than they believe they are, says an NRMA survey of more than 700 learners to be released today.

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2008/12/6/short-cuts/ Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST news Sticky situationHere's why it can be dangerous to pick up hitchhikers - especially good-looking ones.Anadel Carrizales was driving along a highway in Mexico when he was flagged down by a blonde wearing a black miniskirt.Thinking she must have broken down he stopped and that was when the woman walked up and told him an accomplice was pointing a gun at him. She then tied him up with packing tape, super-glued his hands to the steering wheel of his truck and demanded money.

Sticky situation Here's why it can be dangerous to pick up hitchhikers - especially good-looking ones. Anadel Carrizales was driving along a highway in Mexico when he was flagged down by a blonde wearing a black miniskirt.

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2008/12/1/odd-spot/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST news A DRIVING theory test on 400 Malaysian driving instructors resulted in 65 per cent of them failing. At a seminar in Perak, 396 instructors were asked to take the exam and only 35 per cent passed, said state road department director Mohamad Yasir Mastakim.

A DRIVING theory test on 400 Malaysian driving instructors resulted in 65 per cent of them failing. At a seminar in Perak, 396 instructors were asked to take the exam and only 35 per cent passed, said state road department director Mohamad Yasir Mastakim.

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2008/3/1/whod-be-a-driving-instructor/ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST news Trudy Tranquillo claims to be the best driving instructor in Victoria after just 11 years in the business. "I bought the business with my husband and was a driving instructor for six years. I thought it would be a good way to work with people; a good way to get out and about and not stay in one place too long. We have about 28 instructors now - most of them working full-time - and about 1800 students. As the co-ordinator I answer the phones, deal with drivers' problems and deal with VicRoads. ...

Trudy Tranquillo claims to be the best driving instructor in Victoria after just 11 years in the business. "I bought the business with my husband and was a driving instructor for six years. I thought it would be a good way to work with people; a good way to get out and about and not stay in one place too long. We have about 28 instructors now - most of them working full-time - and about 1800 students. As the co-ordinator I answer the phones, deal with drivers' problems and deal with VicRoads. You ...

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2008/1/22/hundreds-of-truckies-and-motorcyclists-may-have-dodgy-licences/ Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST news HUNDREDS of truck drivers and motorcyclists given licences by a company embroiled in Victoria's largest bribes-for-licences scandal remain on the nation's roads, potentially posing a risk to other drivers.VicRoads is retesting up to 940 drivers possibly ensnared in the scandal to see if they should be taken off the roads, and has appointed a former top-ranking policeman to review its outsourcing of truck and motorcycle licensing.VicRoads and police are yet to determine the full exte ...

HUNDREDS of truck drivers and motorcyclists given licences by a company embroiled in Victoria's largest bribes-for-licences scandal remain on the nation's roads, potentially posing a risk to other drivers. Mark La Vanda, 45, and his wife, Constable Natalie Syros, 32

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2004/12/7/school-leavers-need-driving-licences/ Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:00:00 EST news ALL of us are saddened by the number of young people being killed in motor accidents. More stringent regulations are needed to ensure new drivers, young and old, are competent enough to have either a provisional or a full licence.Some of the suggestions being put forward have merit. These include stopping inexperienced people from driving powerful cars, limiting the number of passengers in vehicles driven by young drivers and investigating the use of speed governors on cars driven b ...

ALL of us are saddened by the number of young people being killed in motor accidents.

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/2004/8/27/so-you-think-you-know-the-road-rules/ Fri, 27 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EST news Let's face it, many of our road rules have changed since Johnny O'Keefe was a hit - about the time baby boomers got their driving licences. You might have a licence and even a squeaky clean driving record but how well do you know the road rules?When asked, most drivers rate their knowledge of the road rules as good, even excellent, but do you have the faintest idea what that broken yellow line at the kerb really means? An artefact from the 2000 Olympics perhaps? More importantl ...

Once again young drivers are in the headlines for the wrong reasons. But are they unfairly targeted? Would the rest of us pass the driving test, asks the Drive team. Let's face it, many of our road rules have changed since Johnny O'Keefe was a hit - about the time baby boomers got their driving licences.

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/1996/10/23/driving-instructors-under-review/ Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:00:00 EST news THE STATE Government is assembling members of a working committee to review the standards and training of Victoria's driving instructors. The committee will have three months to come up with a blueprint for change to what most sane motoring countries would regard as a hideous joke - a system that lacks any controls over who teaches its citizens how to pass a basic driving test. The Minister for Roads and Ports, Mr Geoff Craige, is assembling the committee from the police, RACV, TAC, Vi ...

THE STATE Government is assembling members of a working committee to review the standards and training of Victoria's driving instructors. The committee will have three months to come up with a blueprint for change to what most sane motoring countries would regard as a hideous joke - a system that la

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/1996/7/2/bad-habits-are-driving-motorists-to-despair/ Tue, 02 Jul 1996 00:00:00 EST news Melbourne drivers are too aggressive, inconsiderate and generally feel they should be respected by other road users, according to driving instructors, the police and the RACV. An Age poll of the worst habits of Melbourne drivers has found that many are prepared to break the law and put themselves and other drivers at risk to reduce travel times. The most commonly cited bad habits were speeding, failing to obey road signs, running red lights, changing lanes or turning without i ...

Melbourne drivers are too aggressive, inconsiderate and generally feel they should be respected by other road users, according to driving instructors, the police and the RACV. An Age poll of the worst habits of Melbourne drivers has found that many are prepared to break the law and put themselves

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/1993/12/12/state-to-end-checks-on-driving-teachers/ Sun, 12 Dec 1993 00:00:00 EST news POLICE checks on driving instructors will be abolished under a State Government revamp of licence testing that from next week will allow anyone with a driver's licence to go into business teaching learner drivers. Ms Eunice Walters, the president of the Victorian Motor Schools Association, which represents much of the driving school industry, said last week that it was not ready for the changes that had been ``dumped" on it. Ms Walters, whose organisation has been consulti ...

POLICE checks on driving instructors will be abolished under a State Government revamp of licence testing that from next week will allow anyone with a driver's licence to go into business teaching learner drivers. Ms Eunice Walters, the president of the Victorian Motor Schools Association, which

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/1991/9/18/driving-schools-warning/ Wed, 18 Sep 1991 00:00:00 EST news A survey revealing that Asian women learning to drive in Sydney's west have an 80 per cent failure rate has prompted calls for a crackdown on driving instructors. The Roads and Traffic Authority survey showed that the average failure rate of Asian drivers in Fairfield, Merrylands and Liverpool was 65-80 per cent. While the problem was partly caused by poor English, the Member for Cabramatta, Mr John Newman, said Asian people had also been the victims of predatory and ...

A survey revealing that Asian women learning to drive in Sydney's west have an 80 per cent failure rate has prompted calls for a crackdown on driving instructors. The Roads and Traffic Authority survey showed that the average failure rate of Asian drivers in Fairfield, Merrylands and Live

http://www.drivinginstructors.com.au/news/1991/7/25/driving-instructors-face-50-hours-study/ Thu, 25 Jul 1991 00:00:00 EST news The State's 2,600 driving instructors will have to spend up to 50 hours studying the theory behind their job before they can stay on the road. The Government has introduced a new training course in commercial driving instruction which instructors have to complete within three years. Instructors who do not do the 50-hour theory course and an extra practical component will not be eligible for a licence. The change follows an inquiry by the Independent Commissi ...

The State's 2,600 driving instructors will have to spend up to 50 hours studying the theory behind their job before they can stay on the road. The Government has introduced a new training course in commercial driving instruction which instructors have to complete within three years.