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Proudly
supplied by RTEC's own Advanced Driver Training
Team.
To
download the Young Driver Programme registration form, please click
here.
Patron: Greg Murphy - New Zealand's top V8 Supercar
driver.
We have seen in the media youngsters from
the age of 3 driving and riding go karts, motor cycles and
quads, we have drivers below the driving age racing in Formula
Fords, we have young people dying on farms, on race tracks and
there is resistance to raising the starting age for drivers in
New Zealand. These facts along with the ability of 15 1/2 year
olds getting into WRX’s and the like without insurance is the
recipe that sees NZ with some of the highest road tolls for
young drivers in the world.
At The Road and
Traffic Education Centre we have always advocated raising the
starting age for drivers in New Zealand. It is
statistically proven that the first 2 years of driving for
inexperienced drivers is the time when they are most
pre-disposed towards having crashes sometimes with fatal
results, as this situation will not change in the near future
we have come up with the unique Young Driver Programme NZ
(Road Safety Skills) to help and promote better skills,
attitudes and knowledge for future drivers.
This
programme is unique as it is the only programme which brings
young drivers of 14+ and their parents together to attend a
programme of driver training and education which
will bring in
‘best practice’ standards of driver training from other parts
of the world.
Parents go through their own Co Driver
Programme and this instills better personal driving, and
observational skills
Initially each session will
be of 2 hours in duration once a month and we will be running
teams of up to 10 parents and 10 young drivers at each
session. As we build up the programme we will
extend the Young Driver Programme to more week-ends and extend
the programme throughout NZ.
We
also intend to involve local schools so that we can deliver
Defensive Driver Courses and NZQA Unit standards that only
require a classroom based programme. These can either be at
their location or ours.
The Young Driver
Programme NZ (Road Safety Skills) will take participants
through a complete programme to include:
- theory
- general
mechanical principles
- breakdown
and emergency situations
- first
aid
- LTSA’s
Street Talk programme and Defensive Driving Course
- drink
driving presentation and demonstration using our ‘Drunk
Busters day and night time goggles’
- a
complete driving programme on our controlled environment at
the centre using our internal roading system
- NZQA
Unit standards towards the National Certificate of Driving
Parents
will be totally involved in all aspects of the
training.
Having completed our Young Driver
Programme NZ participants have the option of continuing their
training with us
We are aware that the LTSA with
their Practice programme are promoting more parental time ‘in
car’ with offspring, something that we have always actively
promoted and been involved with our driving school. This
scheme is well suited to compliment the LTSA’s Practice
programme as we are in a position to use the Practice material
actually on the programme thus ensuring that parents
understand how to use it in their own
time
Objectives:
 The
objective of the Young Driver Programme NZ (Road Safety
Skills) is to ensure that
by the time our young students reach
the age of 15 we will have produced very
disciplined drivers
who will have gained NZQA unit standards towards the National
Certificate of Driving (Light Vehicle) as they progress
through their ‘scholarships’.
Learner licence
courses will then enable participants in our Young Driver
Programme NZ (Road Safety Skills) to gain licences to drive on
main roads. On completing the Young Driver Programme NZ (Road
safety Skills) participants have the choice as to whether
they
stay on to do our advanced driving programmes to become
Advanced Drivers
(Youth Programme) after taking in Restricted
and Full licence training and testing then going onto sit our
advanced driving test During this programme as skill levels
increase
and positive attitudes are achieved young drivers
will be taken through the whole
range of our vehicles and
products including 4 wheel drives, skid recognition,
recovery
and avoidance situations in our skidcar and if they want to
become
truck drivers they can enroll on our HT course.
All participants on the courses will be able to
gain NZQA unit standards towards the National Certificate of
Driving (Light Vehicle) and other unit standards that are
applicable to subject matter on courses.
For
safety reasons the only restriction on the practical side of
this programme with be on the height of participants as we
must ensure that prospective students are able to reach and
operate all controls on our vehicles.
Costs:
$70 per person
Dates:
2009
| February 27th 2010. |
At 8.00 am &
10.30 am |
| March 27th 2010. |
At 8.00 am &
10.30 am |
| April 24th 2010. |
At 8.00 am &
10.30 am |
| May
22nd 2010. |
At 8.00 am &
10.30 am |
| June 19th 2010. |
At 8.00 am &
10.30 am |
| July 24th 2010. |
At 8.00 am &
10.30 am |
| August 21st 2010. |
At 8.00 am &
10.30 am |
| September 18th 2010. |
At 8.00 am &
10.30 am |
| October 16th 2010. |
At 8.00 am &
10.30 am |
| November 13th 2010. |
At 8.00 am &
10.30 am |
| December 11th 2010. |
At 8.00 am &
10.30 am |
Please Call:
Tony
Williams - (09) 296 5111 or (027) 290 7330
Mark
Harlock – (09) 369 5375 or (027) 273
6971
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Young
Driver Programme
