| Supplementary
Driver Training Courses |
| Defensive
Driving Course |
| (1
and 2 day course available) |
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This particular course has been specifically
designed for drivers who need or want to
enhance their driving standards, reduce
damage, wear and tear on vehicles and promote
good driving techniques.
By placing strong emphasis on pre-course
discussion and listening to your needs,
we are able to ensure you are given the
necessary support you will need in your
chosen programme
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| Course
Content: - |
- Road Positioning
- Road Marking
- Different Road Surfaces
- Forward Observation
- Steering
- Braking
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- Clutch Control
- Gear Selection
- Fuel Economy
- Hazard Perception
- Manoeuvering
- & much more...
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| Defensive
Driving Requires: - |
- Awareness and anticipation of the dangers
that may be encountered in every day conditions
- The driver to consider each a hazard
in sequence and adopt the correct position
for safe navigation
- Appreciation of road conditions and
proper control of the vehicle to ensure
safety.
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| Corrective
Driver Training |
| Do you or your
drivers have a poor accident record? Is your
insurer putting up premiums because of frequency
of claims? Has your policy excess been increased?
If the answer is yes, then we can help.
We have been successful in helping many
operators who have found themselves in this
kind of difficulty by providing driving
skills improvement tuition. This course
is designed to increase driver skills and
promote safe driving habits particularly
in terms of planning and observation.
All training undertaken on own vehicle
to maximise driver and vehicle sympathy
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| Road
Assimilation & Planning |
| This course is
designed to increase the drivers awareness
of the dangers he/ she will encounter in every
day conditions.
The definition requires the driver to consider
each feature in sequence at the approach
to each hazard. Safe driving necessitates
appreciation of the road conditions and
correct manipulation of the controls to
ensure safe passage of the vehicle at all
times.
A MUST for drivers who
wish or need to increase their driving skills.
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| Banksman
Training |
| (½
Day Course Rigid / 1 Day Course Articulated) |
| Drivers are you
putting up your insurance claims through poor
reversing techniques. Unsure of the mechanical
principles involved in reversing, then we
can help.
Reversing requires the application of basic
mechanical principles and all round observation
on the drivers part.
Most accidents occur as a result of poor
observation and an inability of the driver
to judge the length of the vehicle and pivotal
point of the rear axles.
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| Course
Content: - |
- Reversing 90o Left
- Reversing 90o Right
- Reversing around obstacles
- Reversing up to loading bays
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- Importance of mirror use
- Importance of assited reversing
- Legal consequences
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| Drivers
Hours |
| (½
day course) |
| EU Regulation
561/2006 requires that all drivers with
few
exceptions, (such vehicles are subject to
the requirements of the Transport ACT 1968)
must comply in full with the laws relating
to driving periods, rests, breaks and other
driver related activities. Applies to all
vehicles over 3.5 tonnes.
This course deals with the principal drivers
hours regulations which apply in the United
Kingdom and other EU member states.
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| Tachograph
Courses |
| (½
day course) |
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EU regulation 3821/85 applies to the majority
of vehicles in the UK and in other EU member
states. Both EU and UK rules require records
of driving activity to be recorded and available
for inspection by authorised examiners.
This course will demonstrate the different
types of recording devices (tachographs)
the different methods of keeping records
and how to complete tachograph charts.
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