HOW MUCH DO DRIVING LESSONS COST???
Before you read any further down consider this first.
How much do you spend on items such as mobile phones? a typical new phone, lets say an iPhone will set you back nearly £1000 out right, if on contract it will cost around £2000 over 2 years, how long will it last before you get another phone?
How much do you spend on a new TV, again how long will that last 5-6 years?
Have a read of this instructors Blog, click the link below
http://www.herodriving.blogspot.co.uk/
Now consider driving lessons, £400 to £1000 how long will it last you once you have past your driving test? = A LIFE TIME.
The vast majority of car driving instructors in the UK are self employed, they may operate under the banner of a school such as BSM, AA etc, but they are not paid a wage by the school, the instructor pays the school a fee for providing business services to the instructor which is hundreds of pounds each week.
At Abbey School of Motoring I am a sole trader so I don't pay another party for advertising etc, so I can provide a service at a cost lower than a franchise instructor as my over heads are lower.
Customers often believe that the instructor pockets all of the money handed to them for the lesson and assume the instructor is on a whopping hourly rate. I would love to earn £21+ per hour as well!
In reality all instructors have to pay for a car, insurance, fuel (it costs around £20 more to fill a tuition car today than it did 3 years ago!), road tax, servicing, tyres, cleaning, advertising or franchise fee's, national insurance, income tax, then if there is anything left over at the end they can earn a wage for themselves.
At the start of the recession a large number of people were made redundant and decided to train to become driving instructors chasing the promise of 30K per year as advertised on TV, this has seen a increase in the number of instructors whilst the market is slowly fading with the increase in fuel and insurance costs (30K wages is only possible if the Instructor provides over 40 hours of tuition every week of the year after expenditure, and this doesn't include travel time between lessons which is still part of the working week at around 2 hours a day not being paid).
It is a good time to barter for cheap lessons, some instructors are so desperate for work that you can find lessons cheaper than I paid when I learned to drive in 1988! The problem with paying for cheap lessons being the instructor is working for nothing or may even be operating at a loss, so is likely to give very little or nothing in return, starting the engine of the car costs the instructor money so they probably don't want that to be happening very often.
Learning to drive and pass a test for a lot of people realistically costs around £1000 so it is easy to see why customers are keen to find the most cost effective method of obtaining a driving licence and many are driven on "hourly rate" alone without considering the overall picture.
45 hours of professional driving tuition with a highly trained and motivated instructor who is charging a sensible amount and covering the costs of operating their business will cost in the region of £1000 plus test fee's (dependant on pupils progress this can in many cases be much less).
Someone who is selling lessons far below the break even point will have to cram in as many hours as possible, may have little interest and you may find you take more lessons overall, you may also find you take numerous attempts to pass the test. Say you pay £15 per hour but take 80 lessons you have now spent £1200 on lessons and probably numerous test fee's as well. The other risk of paying someone who is so desperate for work that they will offer you a block of lessons at a vastly discounted price is they may be on the verge of going out of business, which means you may lose the money you have paid in advance.
At Abbey School of motoring I believe in providing a high quality service and I charge a sensible amount to ensure I cover my costs and don't need to work excessive hours to make a living. It is our aim that you spend most of the lesson driving, rather than being sat at the side of the road looking at pictures in a book to save fuel.
Remember:
Buy cheap = buy twice.
If it sounds too good to be true... it probably is!
CALL 01254 461 101 now to get started with your lessons.
How much do you spend on items such as mobile phones? a typical new phone, lets say an iPhone will set you back nearly £1000 out right, if on contract it will cost around £2000 over 2 years, how long will it last before you get another phone?
How much do you spend on a new TV, again how long will that last 5-6 years?
Have a read of this instructors Blog, click the link below
http://www.herodriving.blogspot.co.uk/
Now consider driving lessons, £400 to £1000 how long will it last you once you have past your driving test? = A LIFE TIME.
The vast majority of car driving instructors in the UK are self employed, they may operate under the banner of a school such as BSM, AA etc, but they are not paid a wage by the school, the instructor pays the school a fee for providing business services to the instructor which is hundreds of pounds each week.
At Abbey School of Motoring I am a sole trader so I don't pay another party for advertising etc, so I can provide a service at a cost lower than a franchise instructor as my over heads are lower.
Customers often believe that the instructor pockets all of the money handed to them for the lesson and assume the instructor is on a whopping hourly rate. I would love to earn £21+ per hour as well!
In reality all instructors have to pay for a car, insurance, fuel (it costs around £20 more to fill a tuition car today than it did 3 years ago!), road tax, servicing, tyres, cleaning, advertising or franchise fee's, national insurance, income tax, then if there is anything left over at the end they can earn a wage for themselves.
At the start of the recession a large number of people were made redundant and decided to train to become driving instructors chasing the promise of 30K per year as advertised on TV, this has seen a increase in the number of instructors whilst the market is slowly fading with the increase in fuel and insurance costs (30K wages is only possible if the Instructor provides over 40 hours of tuition every week of the year after expenditure, and this doesn't include travel time between lessons which is still part of the working week at around 2 hours a day not being paid).
It is a good time to barter for cheap lessons, some instructors are so desperate for work that you can find lessons cheaper than I paid when I learned to drive in 1988! The problem with paying for cheap lessons being the instructor is working for nothing or may even be operating at a loss, so is likely to give very little or nothing in return, starting the engine of the car costs the instructor money so they probably don't want that to be happening very often.
Learning to drive and pass a test for a lot of people realistically costs around £1000 so it is easy to see why customers are keen to find the most cost effective method of obtaining a driving licence and many are driven on "hourly rate" alone without considering the overall picture.
45 hours of professional driving tuition with a highly trained and motivated instructor who is charging a sensible amount and covering the costs of operating their business will cost in the region of £1000 plus test fee's (dependant on pupils progress this can in many cases be much less).
Someone who is selling lessons far below the break even point will have to cram in as many hours as possible, may have little interest and you may find you take more lessons overall, you may also find you take numerous attempts to pass the test. Say you pay £15 per hour but take 80 lessons you have now spent £1200 on lessons and probably numerous test fee's as well. The other risk of paying someone who is so desperate for work that they will offer you a block of lessons at a vastly discounted price is they may be on the verge of going out of business, which means you may lose the money you have paid in advance.
At Abbey School of motoring I believe in providing a high quality service and I charge a sensible amount to ensure I cover my costs and don't need to work excessive hours to make a living. It is our aim that you spend most of the lesson driving, rather than being sat at the side of the road looking at pictures in a book to save fuel.
Remember:
Buy cheap = buy twice.
If it sounds too good to be true... it probably is!
CALL 01254 461 101 now to get started with your lessons.