Learnmoore Driving

automatic headlights and daylight running lights which are fitted to many vehicles now can actually pose significant risk for some drivers. See and be seen, consider the conditions, a good driver can leave the lights on automatic, and alter them when necessary. I turn my lights on as soon as I get in the car, and then consider if I need to turn them off rather than on.

“The Christmas Factor” is important from a fleet manager’s perspective, a number of factors increase risk on the run up to this time of year.

Fleet driver training, what is in it for your business? According to Department for Transport 1052 people per week were slightly and seriously injured or killed by drivers who drive for work.  Figures advise that in 2010; 10 were killed, 102 injured and 940 slightly injured due to driving for work. How does this affect your business in… [...]

I have spent the last month in London and have been shocked by pedestrians, but some cyclists in particular attitude towards road safety. Although I believe the whole nation could improve safety on our roads it is definitely more apparent in London traffic. Red lights Many cyclists wait on a red light just in front of the [...]

Volunteer drivers for the Olympic Games 2012 in London are been given coaching and training by Learnmoore Driver Training during the next few weekends. Volunteers will be transporting officials, Olympians and Paralympians around mostly London but all parts of the UK during the Games. LOCOG (Olympic Committee) have selected the best candidates for the job [...]

Don’t get me wrong, the CD player/Radio is a great addition to the car, it is a great aid to a long journey and a great healer of frustration and life’s stresses.  However I believe that more attention should be made to the distraction of it.  I am an advanced driver and I am hugely [...]

Driving is a skill used daily by many, some are good drivers, some not so and a few are dangerous.  For me ‘Advanced’ driving is how we should all drive, all of the time, but realistically this is difficult. Getting from A-B is most people’s target whilst driving, and it is mine too, to better yourself [...]

Commentary driving is a great way to focus on the task at hand whilst driving.  During the following videos I have planned ahead to avoid stopping which is better for economy, but also in order to plan to approach at a sensible speed. Notice on the first section I discuss the brow of the hill [...]

I was having a meal in a Mexican Style restaurant not so long ago, and the restaurant provided crayons and a table mat which was available to use as a very large piece of paper.  Anyone who knows me will understand that the urge would be too strong not to, so……. I made a list [...]

Although we learn to deal with crossing the road when we are very young by adults, often parents, pedestrian safety applies just as much when you are 3 or 4 as when you are 30 or 40.  In 2008 6642 pedestrians were killed or seriously injured (DFT), and nearly 22,000 were slightly injured.  The highest number of [...]