Author Archive: David

6 points for phone users behind the wheel

From today anyone caught using a handheld phone behind the wheel will get 6 points on their licence. For new drivers in their first 2 years, that would take you right back to needing to pass your test again. Regardless of the points, it simply isn’t worth risking the safety of you and anyone […]

Another positive week

Another week helping people become safe drivers. A nice highlight today with a new pupil finishing their 1st lesson and being greeted by excited parents eager to hear how she got on. Nice to see the parents invested as part of the team with their child and us all working towards the same goal 🙂

Driving Test Changes

Changes to the driving test are coming, but no dates have been announced yet. Drive Fareham will keep our pupils updated when further announcements are made. After trials runs and consultations, the expected changes are likely to include: Increasing the existing ‘independent driving’ part of the test from 10 to 20 minutes. Due to a […]

Learning in the Fog

Very foggy out there today. Great opportunity for our advanced learners to experience challenging conditions with Drive Fareham’s guidance, but best to avoid for our newer learners still learning the ropes. We’ll advise all of our pupils.

Busy Start to 2017

It has been a busy start to 2017 with lots of people acting on their new year resolutions to learn to drive and choosing Drive Fareham driving school to help them. As a result we are pretty booked up until the end of February, but if you would like to learn with us then drop […]

It’s cold outside!

January is upon us, it’s freezing outside, so maybe it’s time to take the car instead of waiting at the bus stop! Spaces for lessons in January are filling up fast but we still have some gaps on weekday daytimes; contact us to book in.

Happy New Year from Drive Fareham

We would like to wish all of of customers, followers and future customers a very happy new year. Safe driving in 2017!

Learners to be allowed on Motorways

Great news that learners drivers will be allowed on motorways with an Approved Driving Instructor and dual control car. This will help prepare drivers far more for the ‘real world’s after they pass their test. Read more here: https://twitter.com/DVSAgovuk/status/814747128950046720?s=09

Clearing up the Foggy Fog Light advice

There’s a lot of advice out there (correctly) about making sure to have your fog lights on when visibility is below 100m. But what about the downsides of using fog lights when they aren’t needed? Driving home tonight highlighted an issue to me where there is little said about the possible consequences of having your […]

New Flyers Around Town

Keep an eye out for our new flyers around town.

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