Driving Lessons

Learning to Drive


As a provisional licence holder you obviously need someone to teach you how to drive a car and prepare you for the driving test, the two main avenues that learner drivers use is either by using an approved driving instructor (ADI) or by learning with friends and family.

In these days of a slumping economy and the credit crunch biting very hard, it is not surprising that a lot of people will try and use the least costly route, which will usually be family or friends and some will choose cheap driving lessons.

Cheapest driving lessons


There is nothing wrong with trying to find the driving school that offers the best value for your money when learnong to drive, but you should not go for an instructors tuition just because they offer the cheapest driving lessons in your area. You must make sure that whoever you are learning to drive with and paying money to is a current qualified DSA approved instructor still authorised to give driving lessons in exchange for money, that the car is fully insured and roadworthy for the purpose that you intend.

Due to the ecomonic downturn, there are a lot of illegal driving instructors operation in the UK who are charging money for driving lessons, are not qualified or don't have insurance.

As a provisional licence holder learning to drive, you want to make sure that your money is being spent on the best tuition you can afford, and not lining the pockets of someone who might disappear before your DSA test or keep strectching your driving lessons just to get money off you.

Don't just go for cheap driving lessons, look for quaility as well.


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Provisional Licence for 15 16 year olds

Driving Permit before 17



In the UK there is no provisional driving licence available for under 17 year olds to learn to drive. If you are 16 and get the higher diability allowance, then you can apply for a provisional licence, other wise the only way to get any driving experience if you are a 15 yr old is to go on one of those special off road special road adventure courses run on private properties.

This special driving lessons are designed to give young teenagers who don't qualify to apply for provisional licences a safe environment where they can learn the basic driver skills that they can later use to prepare for the DSA driving test and apply for a full UK DVLA approved licence.

Don't think that you can just drive a car as a 15 or 16 year old in a supermarket car park because it is private property, first of all you might need the owners permission to drive, and secondly if you do get involved in an accident, you won't have any insurance to cover you, and any accicent photos taken will just be more evidence against you, and you could end up getting points on a provisional licence that has not even been issued to you as a 15 or 16 yr old.

The under 17 Driving Schools have all the permissions and insurance required to offer you driving lessons, so don't break the law if you want a clean provisional licence.