Advanced & Defensive Driving Courses Cornwall
We provide high-quality, bespoke driver training that is convenient and easily accessible to our customers. Focusing on exceptional quality, we offer a personal, one-to-one service, supported by a talented team of professionals who genuinely love their work. Due to Cornwall’s rural location, advanced driver training is particularly important in helping to improve drivers’ safety.
Our driving courses are designed to help drivers plan, observe, and gain a far superior level of car control, becoming safer and more controlled drivers. Our advanced driving courses in Cornwall cover a wide range of roads and routes. We can provide training from all the main towns, including: St Ives – Helston – Truro – St. Austell – Bodmin – Newquay – Padstow – Bude – Liskeard
Our advanced driving courses, depending on where you are in Cornwall, cover a range of A roads, including the A390, A391, and A39, along with a range of B and sometimes unclassified roads, to ensure you gain the most from your advanced driving course.
If you specifically want motorway driving, we can head towards Exeter and take the M5. We can train any number of drivers, from one to over 1,000. We have already successfully helped a number of businesses and private customers who are located in Cornwall become safer drivers.
Our Range of Courses:
Our tailored driving courses include a variety of formats, including:
* Company driver training – for van and car drivers in your fleet
* Young drivers – Confidence-building sessions for younger or newly qualified drivers
* Pre-court driving courses – speeding and other pending convictions.
* High-powered vehicle training
* Confidence driving courses
* Motorhome confidence courses – Focused training to build confidence driving larger leisure vehicles
* Advanced and defensive courses – bespoke to your needs
* Motorway confidence training – Helping drivers feel safer and more in control on motorways
* UK Familiarisation – for drivers new to the UK
During a session, we typically focus on:
* Forward planning and observation
* Speed Awareness
* Developing a positive attitude towards safer driving
* How to become a safer driver on all roads
* Car or van control (gears, steering, foot controls, signals)
* Rules of the road
* Dealing with road rage
* Reversing and manoeuvres
* Dealing with adverse weather
* Town and urban defensive driving
* Driving in heavy traffic and allowing adequate space
* Skid control theory and learning what causes skids
* Eco-safe driving (effective use of speed, gears, planning)
* Anticipation – Learning to see and not just look
* Understanding other road users and their intentions
We know you have a choice when it comes to driver training. Over the years, we have worked hard to ensure we differentiate ourselves based on service and quality of training. Training with us means you benefit from:
* One-to-one driver training
* Personal account management, a member of our team will get to know you, and your specific needs
* National UK coverage – we come to you for the training
* Only the most dedicated, professional advanced driving tutors work with us
* All tutors are handpicked and are Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency registered
* Full reporting for each person taking our course, sent by email after a course
Our bespoke training is what divides us from other training providers. The idea of a rigid tick box, one-size-fits-all driving course fills us with dread. They’re dull, a little tedious and seldom get the most from a driver.
For all our bespoke driving courses in Cornwall, we provide training on a range of roads and different areas, which can include:
Motorway training – Although there are no motorways in Cornwall, the county is served by faster A roads such as the A30, which connects Exeter through Okehampton in Devon and all the way down to the beautiful Sennen Cove. Other major A roads are the A390 starting in Dobwalls and running down the east coast of Cornwall joining the A38 and the A30. The A39 starts just near Barnstaple and follows the coast on the western side of Devon and Cornwall, and splits at St Columb Major near Newquay into the A30 and the A390. Motorway driving can be very challenging especially in area that you are not familiar with, we help with many issues of motorway confidence, and we can help you to stop being anxious on the motorway. Motorway issues can include being boxed in by lorries and not knowing which lane to be in for your exit junction, plus many more.
Rural Roads – Cornwall is full of rural roads, often very slow in the summer months. With a large farming community, it is not just caravans that hold up the traffic; farm machinery is also on the road on most days. Most coastal roads are very rural and often single-track, so it is important that you have good road sense when driving in rural areas, particularly if you are used to driving in urban areas mainly. We teach many aspects of rural driver training, from the limit point to understanding the road furniture (lines and signs) which can be immensely helpful when you are on a small lane and not sure of oncoming traffic.
Urban Training – The county town in Cornwall is Truro, and this is one of the busiest towns in the county, along with Newquay, Falmouth, and Perranporth, where we conduct a lot of driver training. Having good road sense in urban and town areas is vital not just for you but for other road users, pedestrians, and cyclists. With many areas renewing their traffic flows, it is not uncommon to see diversion signs and new large junctions. Often, new retail parks are set on the outskirts of towns, and with new roads and roundabouts, this can be very confusing, especially for inexperienced or older drivers.
Get in touch:
We have a number of courses and price options. Please email us for more info, and a member of our team will be in touch. You can also book and pay online at www.advanced-driving.co.uk/book/ should you wish.