We provide advanced driving courses in Hertfordshire to a range of companies and also private clients. To date, we have completed training in Stevenage, Hatfield, Hemel Hempstead, Watford, Ware and Hitchin. We can cover all areas of Hertfordshire and come to you for the training. As a national provider of driver training, we can provide training anywhere in the UK, not just in Hertfordshire, with our team of 240 + tutors.
Remember – All our on-road driving courses are tailored to your exact requirements. For both business and private clients.
In terms of training locations in Hertfordshire, we have a good network of roads to introduce and practice various advanced driving techniques, such as the limit point and system of car control. For motorway training, we have the A1 (M), the M25, the M1 and also the M11. Although they all tend to have a very heavy traffic volume, we can pick our time and junctions to ensure we don’t sit in too much traffic!
All driver training is bespoke to your exact needs – for both business and private clients.
In the county, there are lots of A and B roads we can drive on, such as the A602, A41 and A10. A key part of advanced driving is driving on rural roads. In Hertfordshire, we do have a wide expanse of rural roads, where some of the best routes are found in the north and north-west of the county towards places like Buntingford and Bishops Stortford.
We often leave the county on an advanced driving course and head into Essex to the east, or up towards Cambridgeshire. Sometimes we will also head west into Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire area. We do try and avoid heading into the London area due to the traffic, however.
During a session, we typically look at:
- Observation and awareness of the driving environment
- Becoming more speed aware
- Developing an improved attitude towards motoring
- How to become a more skilful driver on all types of roads
- Car control (looking at gears, steering, use of signals)
- Motoring law
- Coping and defusing with road rage
- Manoeuvres and driving in restricted areas
- Coping with bad weather
- Driving in busy urban environments
- Learning why skids happen and how to control skid
- Learning how to save fuel through economical motoring
- Learning to see and not just look when driving
- Learning how to better anticipate the actions of other road users
Why take driver training with us? (Personal advantages)
- Enhance your levels of driving skill and confidence
- Single out and remove any bad driving habits
- Consider issues that may be impacting your driving
- Improve all aspects of car control
- Learn how to get more miles from your tank
If you are looking at an advanced driving course as part of a fleet driver training plan, the advantages to training cover:
- Increase driver safety in your fleet
- Demonstrate Duty of Care
- Possibly reduce your fleet insurance costs
- Boost morale among your drivers
- Provide increased skill and confidence for your drivers
- Reduce your fleet fuel costs
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Talk to us:
You can book a course online at www.advanced-driving.co.uk/book/ or please call us or send us an email. We try to reply to all emails within 1 hour during working hours. Whether you are looking for a quote based on a large number of drivers or simply have a few queries (private and business customers), our team are here to assist.
Road Safety Risks and Information – Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire is a very busy county north of London; it has much commuter traffic and has many fast A road routes and motorways, including many miles of rural roads crossing the whole county.
The accident statistics in Hertfordshire are very high for a small county, and the worst affected areas are mainly the faster routes. The M1 from Watford to Luton has seen many crashes involving multiple vehicles and fatalities, and the junctions are usually where most accidents happen, but on this route, there are many accidents in motorway stretches between junctions, which shows that possible high-volume traffic could have led to such issues. The North Orbital A414 link between the M1 and the A1 is also a high collision rate area. The worse affected area is the complex network of roundabouts that link the M25, M1 and the A414. This particular stretch has seen far more than average fatalities, so it’s good to understand the hot spots of any route, allowing drivers to be extra cautious.
The busy A road routes in Hertfordshire are probably more affected by accidents than the motorways, the A41 between Tring and Hemel Hempstead being one of them. The A10 from Cheshunt to Royston is very prone to high-speed accidents, and these appear to be surrounding the intersections of rural roads crossing. The A505 from the junction of the A1 through Royston and onto the meeting of the A11 at Granta Park is another route fraught with fatal collision sites. At Watford, the routes leading to and from the town centre are littered with crash sites, the worst affected being the Rickmansworth road and the one-way system in Market Street. St Albans Road in Hemel Hempstead is a hazardous area where too many needless accidents have happened in the past several years.
The rural parts of Hertfordshire are hazardous in certain areas, with seasonal changes bringing floods and high winds, causing tree falls that can block minor roads. The A5183 from St Albans to Redbourn has many crash sites, especially around the intersections where very rural lanes cross the faster road, such as Hogg End Lane and Punchbowl Lane. The B158, Lower Hatfield Road towards Hertford, is also strewn with severe accident sites. Rural driving is as bad if not worse than urban or motorway driving as there are more issues to contend with, and speed is a significant factor in rural collisions.
These are only a very broad outline of collision sites in the county. If you have any specific roads you travel on in the area and you’re keen to discover what parts are at higher risk in terms of collisions, please contact us. We offer a free-of-charge service to anyone who is interested.