Staffordshire provides an excellent setting for driver training, with its combination of busy town centres, high-speed motorways, rural roads and major A-roads. From navigating the M6 and A50 to driving through the Staffordshire Moorlands and picturesque countryside, drivers gain valuable experience in a wide range of real-world driving environments, helping them become safer, more confident and more capable behind the wheel.

The M6 runs through the county, and a wide range of A-roads, such as the A53 and A518, provide a varied experience for driver training. We often head west into Shropshire during a course, using the A518 or A53, or, depending on your location, we can head south into the West Midlands, or even east into Derbyshire. The routes we take on a driving course are designed to provide the very best learning experience for you.

Remember – Each driving course is totally bespoke to your own specific needs and requirements. This applies to both our business and private client courses.

Our courses are bespoke to the needs of the driver, so with one course we may focus on motorway training, and with another we may spend more time on rural road driving.

During rural road training, we place greater emphasis on car control and on dealing with varying road surfaces, corners, and (often) hazards such as mud on the road, blind entrances, and farm machinery.

We offer a range of bespoke driving courses, which include:

* Business driver training, car and van
* Younger drivers
* Pre-court assessments
* Performance car training
* Confidence training
* Motorhome training
* General advanced and defensive courses
* Motorway training
* UK Familiarisation

We have full UK coverage, and we come to you. All training takes place in your own vehicle, and it is bespoke to your specific needs, whether for a business or a private customer.

During an advanced driving session, we typically look at:

* 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

Benefits of advanced driver training from a business perspective. If you are considering driver training for your fleet, there are a number of advantages:

* Reduce the collision rate among your drivers
* Save up to 20% on fuel costs
* Save on fleet insurance bills
* Show your employees you are dedicated to a safer working environment
* Allow your employees to enjoy a higher level of driver skill in works vehicles

Personal benefits of taking advanced and defensive driver training with us:

* Increase your levels of confidence
* Identify and remove any bad habits
* Look at issues that may be specific to you
* Increase your car control on all road types
* Reduce wear on your car
* Improve your MPG – get more miles from your tank

Contact Us:

Please contact us for a quote or to learn more about our courses and how we can help you. You can contact us by email or phone. All email enquiries are replied to within 1hr during business hours.

Ready to book? You can also book and pay for a course online at www.advanced-driving.co.uk/book

Road Safety Risks and Information – Staffordshire

The M6 and the M54 motorways and several fast A road routes such as the A5, A34, A51 and A38 serve Staffordshire. All of these routes are littered with many severe and often fatal collision sites throughout the entire county, and it is beneficial to know where the worse hot spots are located if you intend to travel across Staffordshire.

The M6 joins Staffordshire at Essington, which also links the M54 at junction 10a, and several serious accidents have been noted at this junction. Further along, northbound is the challenging M6 toll junction, where it links the A460, and numerous accidents have occurred around this point, especially on the sizable multilane roundabout; this could be a result of poor positioning for lane exits, which is disastrous at hectic motorway junctions. Although several severe accidents are noted further along the M6, the next area of paramount concern is the run-up to Junction 13 and the intersection of the A449. Numerous collision sites exist here, and extra caution should be applied when driving there. There will always be unexpected, unavoidable accidents. Still, statistics show that more accidents will occur anywhere that there is a joining of other routes, via roundabouts, traffic lights or slip roads, so once this is ingrained in your driving habits, you will pay extra attention near these areas, and you will give yourself a better chance of staying safer on the road. The M54 from Telford across the M6 has plenty of accident sites, which have occurred along the entire length, showing that it is a hectic route and care should be taken.

The A41 is a busy and fast road route that runs across Staffordshire between Wolverhampton and Newport in Shropshire. It is rural in areas and quite winding; several severe accidents have occurred along this route. The A5 crosses Staffordshire from Telford to Tamworth and experiences the highest number of accidents in the county due to its high traffic volume. The Four Crosses near Chase Park are particularly hazardous, as are the challenging junctions joining the Walsall Road and the A460. The A5 gets a little riskier as it travels towards Tamworth as the fast road becomes more winding from Muckley Corner, and the collision rates rise drastically. The A38 is a very long route that runs from the west of the UK and, in Staffordshire, links Brownhills to Burton on Trent. It passes through some very rural areas, and collisions often occur when minor lanes intersect the faster routes. The A53 from Market Drayton to Stoke-on-Trent carries a high volume of traffic and has numerous collisions. Also, it covers a large rural area and is a winding road where crossing minor roads and too much speed have been fatal in too many cases.

In the more rural areas of Staffordshire, collision rates are more dispersed, but collisions are far more severe when they do occur. The roads around the village of Cheadle are very hazardous, with numerous severe accidents in a very small area, and this is similar across the county.

These are only a very broad outline of collision sites in the county. Please contact us if you have any specific roads you travel on in the area and are keen to discover what parts are at higher risk of collisions. We offer a free-of-charge service to anyone who is interested.