Pass With Dom is a Pass Plus registered driving instructor. Pass Plus is a DVSA (Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency) training scheme that aims to improve new drivers skills and experience in six core areas, and is best taken within one year after passing your driving test. It may lead to insurance cost reduction. The training takes at least six hours and is vehicle based; it does not have an exam/test at the end but your progress is monitored and assessed during the training course.
Pass Plus has has six modules, covering:
Town Driving, which includes:
-Observations, judegment and awareness
-Eye contact
-Consideration for vulnerable road users
-Keeping space around your car
All-Weather Driving, which includes:
-Correct speed
-Safe stopping distances
-Seeing and being see in rain, sleet, snow and ice
-Skidding, cause and prevention, correcting slow-speed skids, braking on poor surfaces, aquaplaning
Driving Out Of Town, which includes:
-Observation of the road ahead
-Making progress safely
-Bends, hills, uneven roads, dead ground
-Keeping a safe distance from the vehicle ahead
-Overtaking safely
-Being aware of and showing consideration for pedestrians, horse riders, animals in the road, farm entrances and slow-moving vehicles.
Night Driving, which includes:
-The importance of the correct use of headlights
-Adjusting to dark conditions
-Judging speed and distances
-Correct use and care of lights
-Dealing with dazzle
-Road users who can be difficult to see
-Parking
Driving on Dual Carriageways, which includes:
-Effective observation
-Use of mirrors and checking blind areas
-Judgement and planning well ahead
-Safe separation distances
-Joining and leaving dual carriageways
-Lane discipline
-Overtaking
-Correct use of speed
Driving On Motorways, which includes:
-Planning journeys in advance
-Joining and leaving motorways
-Using slip roads properly and effectively
-Safe speeds for varying circumstances
-Effective all-round observation
-Signs, signals and markings
-Overtaking and lane discipline
-Courtesy towards other road users
-Motorway fatigue
-Breakdown procedures
-Use of lights and hazard warning lights
-Debris on the carriageway
-Crosswinds
*(during the summer month Pass With Dom may not be able to teach driving in poor weather conditions such as snow and ice or driving in the dark. These aspects of the Pass Plus scheme will be theory based where necessary)
The DVSA Pass Plus team can be contacted via:
Telephone: 0115 936 6504
Email: passplus@dvsa.gov.uk
Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm