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8 months in, a few things learned
Since transferring to automatic training, quite a few points of view have changed, both mine and the student’s Where has the year gone already? Seems like last week that I was getting the car ready for its first student, and now, 8 months down the line, the xmas lights in the garage are starting to…
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New Era For DCS begins!
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Sponsoring Local Football
DCS is proud to be a Sleeve Sponsor for Welshpool Juniors Under 11s for the 22/23 season. After a hugely successful 2021 campaign, the club kicked off the new season yesterday with a friendly, winning 9-2. Here’s the team looking very sharp in their new kit. Great start guys! More info: https://www.facebook.com/groups/337896219672511
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Automatic For The Pupil
DCS driver training is going auto! Over the years I’ve been doing this job, it’s been fascinating to note the changes that have occurred in the industry, some subtle, some not so. A decade might not seem like a long time, but when you consider that, back when I was considering Instructor training, diesels were…
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Learn to drive in Oswestry? It’s all systems go!
It’s a waiting game DCS, along with other driver trainers in the Oswestry, Welshpool and Shrewsbury areas, has been back training new drivers for best part of 3 months now, and it’s pretty full on for learners, trainers and examiners alike. Unfortunately this huge backlog in demand has inevitably led to big waiting lists for…
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Driving Test Booking Resumes Normal Service
Although we’re still going through uncertain times, the DVSA has recently announced that, after months of disruption, the test booking service has now allocated several hundred thousand appointments. This covers a huge backlog of candidates awaiting patiently for a test date. Booking tests right through to January might seem like a risky strategy currently, but…
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Video Games Vs Real Life
Quite a lot of my trainees enjoy gaming, as I do too. And very often something will come up around comparing playing a game to learning to drive; using hand / eye coordination, gaining experience by attempting missions / manoeuvres, levelling up… That sort of thing. Any gamer who’s played on one of the most…
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DVSA announce test booking to reopen
From tomorrow, Friday 21 August, the test booking service from the DVSA is to reopen to candidates in England and Wales. It’s been a long time coming, as examiners try to clear the backlog of both critical worker tests and those candidates who had a test booked before lockdown. The DVSA say that everyone in…
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Cambridge’s Dutch experiment
What you are looking at above may seem unusual, and there’s a good reason for that. We’re not used to seeing so many markings (or colours) on a roundabout in the UK, so there’s obviously something different about it. The key difference is that priority – usually, unarguably, given to the motorist – is given…
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Has driving got worse during lockdown?
It’s been mentioned by a few trainees over the past two weeks that, as restrictions have gradually been lifted, the number of incidents they’ve witnessed on the roads, as either a learner or a passenger, has increased. This observation was something that had occurred to me a couple of times too. Whilst on drives in…
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