RACT Driver Training offers Learner Driver Training and Defensive Driver Training courses. Our Driver Training Service has a reputation for providing:

• More emphasis on driving skills
• Positive attitude to safe driving
• Highly qualified driving instructors
• Quality instruction time
• 50-minute lessons
• Modern air-conditioned dual-controlled vehicles
• Automatic lessons also available in Hobart

Services available

• Multiple lesson packages at discounted rates
• Discounted rates for RACT members
• Safety drive courses offering practical and theoretical sessions
• Preparatory training for older drivers entering the re-testing phase beyond 85 years of age
• General driving assessments for licensed drivers looking for an objective assessment of their driving competence

Tips for supervising drivers

Supervisors play an important role in the process of learning to drive. As a supervising driver it's important to give your learner driver lots of practice, advice and support along the way.

1. In the early stages of driving, encourage your learner to concentrate on the car and the road. You'll initially act as an extra pair of eyes to watch the road and help your learner anticipate potential hazards.
2. Remember to have realistic expectations. Don't make your learner encounter situations that they are uncomfortable with before they are ready. Let your learner know that becoming a good, safe driver takes time and plenty of experience. Your role should decrease as the learner's skills increase.
3. Understand and reinforce the correct driving techniques taught by the driving school. Your learner driver should have at least three to four lessons with a recognised driving school. This helps establish the correct pattern of driving skills, attitudes and behaviours.
4. Make sure your learner driver gets plenty of practice in non-threatening situations. Start in quiet suburban streets (outside peak periods) or a deserted parking lot.
5. As your learner gains experience, introduce more demanding driving situations. This can include driving on busier roads, night driving, wet weather driving as well as sessions on busier highways and unsealed roads.
6. Where possible, use the same vehicle to produce consistent performance, encouragement and feedback. For the same reasons, it's also best if your learner driver sticks with one supervisor.

keys2drive - what is it?

keys2drive is a program that helps new drivers prepare for the realities of P plate driving.

Aims

• keys2driveequips parents/supervisors with a practical coaching approach they can use throughout the learning-to-drive journey.
• keys2drive helps learner drivers prepare for P plate driving and beyond, but focuses particularly on remaining free of harm during the first six months, when risks are at their highest.

keys2drive encourages aware, sustainable, safe driving and is a great foundation for lifelong, self-guided learning

Free Lesson

keys2drive is providing a free lesson to learner drivers, which brings the learner driver and the parent/supervisor together with a keys2drive accredited professional driving instructor.

Funded by the Australian Federal Government, the 'free lesson' introduces the keys2drive coaching approach ('Find Your Own Way'), with examples of how the parent/supervisor and learner driver can use this approach when learning to drive.

For more information about the Free Lesson, click here.

Enquiries

For further information call 13 27 22.