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Driver Trainer is the magazine of the DIA, the largest professional association in driver training. We have access to the right people – policy and lawmakers, regulators and government. We hear it first and we tell it like it is
Our articles cover a diverse range of subjects, including driver behaviour, learner and occupational driver training, legislation, the future of the industry, motoring technology and motorbike training
Lockdown in Leicester: what it means for restarting driver and rider services
The Government announced on 29 June that Leicester and surrounding areas are in lockdown following …
NASP Guidelines on driver trainers safely returning to work
NASP has produced an updated set of guidelines, taking into account the latest briefing from DVSA on the resumption of testing and training. We will work to expand on these for rider and vocational trainers where applicable. Download the …
Theory tests in Scotland and Wales to be rescheduled
All theory tests in Scotland and Wales up to and including 14 July have been rescheduled due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Theory tests for critical workers in Scotland and Wales will still go ahead. DVSA will continue to …
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Hope for the best, expect the worst
Nick Heath shares his method of managing risk to help keep his business on the road.
Critical care
Anthony Fuller tells us the story of his student Maria, an ICU nurse who is learning to drive while caring for her patients under the most difficult of circumstances.
Performance anxiety
Liam Greaney delves into the reasons as to why pupils often choke when taking their driving test.
Future thinking
Edmund King OBE discusses how increased usage of electric vehicles will affect driving instructors.
Strangely normal
Edmund King OBE discusses the effects of lockdown on ADIs and their pupils.
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Back to basics
In the first in a series of articles about fleet training, Howard Redwood takes us through the basics. What is it and how can you learn the skills needed?
Going it alone
Olivia Baldock-Ward explains what is meant by independent driving in the driving test and offers her teaching tips to prepare your pupils.
Budget not beauty
The Fiat Tipo comes as a compact hatch or SW estate, and it’s easy to drive, offers decent space and is good value for money.
Fun and sporty
The Suzuki Swift offers a decent drive and reasonable practicality, although rivals are more refined
Decent and dependable
It might be showing its age ever so slightly, but the comfortable, practical Skoda Fabia remains hard to fault.
Serious small SUV
We get behind the wheel of the new Ford Puma to see if Ford has nailed the small crossover brief
Going further
The latest version of the all-electric Renault Zoe supermini raises its game again
Capturing the crossover market
The second-generation Renault Captur small SUV is a seriously tempting package
