Private driving instructors in Birmingham are in high demand because we’re the best.
Always choose a driving instructor and not a driving school.
This page will explain the many benefits of learning with me over a random instructor working for a generic driving school.
Private driving instructors in Birmingham
There are three ways to find an instructor for driving lessons:
- Contact a driving school and hope they send you a good instructor
- Book through an agency and hope they send you a good instructor
- Hand-pick the best instructor by going to them directly
Which of those three options looks the best to you?
The best driving instructors won’t work at driving schools
Why would the best driving instructors work for a driving school?
We don’t, because we don’t need to!
Driving schools make money by having instructors pay them a weekly fee in return for a car and work. They don’t only take on the best instructors, they’ll take on anyone who will pay them!
I’ve been working as an independent driving instructor for over 20 years because I’m too good to work for a driving school.
How to save money on driving lessons
I help people save money on driving lessons by focusing on high quality, not low prices.
My experience shows that it often takes under 40 hours to be at driving test standard with a good instructor and over 60 hours with a poor instructor.
40 hours of good lessons at £45 an hour = £1,800
60 hours of poor lessons at £35 an hour = £2,150
Hundreds of pupils have come to me from other schools, having spent thousands, only to have to start all over again right from the beginning because they’ve been taught so poorly.
Add to that the cost of multiple failed driving tests, all of the time you’ve lost, jobs, holidays and more you’ve missed out on, and those cheap lessons can have cost you a lot.
Choosing the right instructor from the start could save you thousands of pounds.
Watch this video to see how a high-quality instructor teaches differently from a cheap one, and the lifelong consequences it can have on your driving
For more on how to find a good driving instructor, see these pages:
Signs of a bad driving instructor
How to find a good driving instructor.
Why to avoid introductory offers like 5 lessons for £50
Benefits of learning with me
You can watch me teaching someone to drive from start to finish. Watching those videos between lessons can help by giving you a head start on what’s coming up next.
There is also my free driving lesson help guide for pupils. That splits the longer full-length videos down into bite-sized pieces and also has pages of information and driving tips.
These videos won’t work if you learn with anyone else, because they won’t teach how I do.
More benefits of learning with me
- I have over 20 years of experience as a driving instructor
- I have taught over 1,000 people to drive in Birmingham
- I’m also a professional hypnotherapist, so I understand how your mind works and can use those skills to make your lessons more effective.
- I’ve sat in on hundreds of driving tests, so I know exactly what’s required to pass
- No gimmicky intro offers like 10 lessons for £99. If you want to learn the real reasons schools offer these and the catches behind them, see my page on introductory offers.
- I teach only a few pupils at a time, so I don’t dash from one lesson to another all day as most instructors do, arriving exhausted and forgetting who you are or what you’ve done.
- I’ve trained hundreds, probably thousands, of driving instructors. Some of my driving instructor videos have over 80,000 views, and many instructors around the UK point their pupils to my videos for help.
- I was (probably) the first YouTube driving instructor in the UK. I started the 1stDrive channel in May 2008 and have made hundreds of driving lesson videos, which show my passion and knowledge.
- I’ve been fully qualified for decades. Many driving schools use inexperienced trainee instructors who may fail their exams while you’re with them. We all have to start somewhere, but some prefer not to learn with a learner.
Even more benefits of learning with me…
- No price rises: my prices stay the same until you pass, no matter how long it takes.
- You’ll be supporting a local small business
- You can learn about me here and by watching my videos. Pupils have said they knew so much about me before meeting that it took away the nerves, and felt like meeting a friend.
- The same instructor (me) for every lesson, not a different one each time from the same school, when the last one fails their exams. No instructors work for me or with me.
- No deposit to pay before we meet. Why risk paying before you’ve met your instructor?
- There’s no contract to sign, and you can stop any time you like, with no fees.
- There are no fees for cancelling a lesson (but if you cancel too many, I won’t do any more!)
- No driving test fee. Some instructors charge up to £100 on top of the lesson price to take you on a test (to make money back from cheap intro offers).
- No sales targets. Some schools encourage instructors to drag lessons out for rewards such as holidays and a month’s free car rental. I’ve worked at these schools and been through the sales pitches in classrooms.
- In-car CCTV protection for you (and me). I can also review all driving tests if you don’t pass. Even if I don’t go with you, I can still see exactly what happened and help you.
Contact me now to get started.