Womans car insurance provider says don't just drive teach!

If you're buying your woman's car insurance for the 15th time and you're beginning to find it a bit of a chore cast your mind back to the days when you were a learner driver and the prospect of getting your licence seemed a million miles away.

Then turn that on its head and try to imagine yourself, with all your years of safe driving experience, teaching other women to drive. What would it be like? Well, according to the 2pass.co.uk website it can be a challenge, but also very rewarding.

Apparently, only 15 per cent of the 30,000 driving instructors registered with the Driving Standards Agency (DSA) are female. Anyone who wants to train as a driving instructor must have held a full licence for four years, must have no criminal convictions unless they are spent, and must not have been issued with a driving ban in the four years prior to entry onto the driving instructor register. For more information on the requirements and skills needed visit the DSAs website.

On the 2pass.co.uk website, Alison discusses her experience as a driving instructor. After working for 13 years in an office, she decided that she wanted a change. She took the extensive instructor training, passed all the tests and set up a driving school employing male and female instructors. Now, she works alone under her own name.

Alison suggests that unsocial hours and job stress put some women off becoming a driving instructor. She said, "It involves a lot of organisation - I'm a single parent with a young son so I try to work as much as I can during the day while he's at school.
"When I've got the L plates on I often find drivers try more to overtake me and are in more of a hurry to get past. Putting pressure on learners only makes them more nervous and slower to get going."

Alison specialises in teaching nervous learners and prides herself on her friendly, patient tuition. She is qualified as a Grade 6 instructor (that's the best, according to Alison) and she also provides Pass Plus training, Motorway courses and refresher lessons for people who haven't driven in a while.

The majority of Alison's pupils are women, but she does teach men. She says, "I like woman's company and a lot of female learners prefer to be taught by a woman because it often puts them more at ease. All drivers are different, but women tend to be over-cautious, while men are usually more reckless and drive faster."

Alison openly encourages more female drivers to put their years of womans car insurance buying to good use and train to become driving instructors. She said, "Women are in demand - they should give it a go."

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