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Would you like to be considered for a career as a highly trained Advanced Driving Instructor? |
Vacancies.... Instructors Needed
Would you like to be an advanced driving instructor with ADA, and therefore provably one of the safest and very best drivers in North America?
Due to our growing workload we need more instructors, both in the USA and Canada. Our work takes us farther afield, too, such as Puerto Rico and - imminently - South America.
You do NOT already need to be a driving instructor in order to do this work, but you do need to have a calm, likable and professional manner and also to be extremely reliable person. If that describes you, read on!
Background: The skills that may be thought of as being true advanced driving are actually quite old. The first generation of what is now known as the "System of Car Control" was introduced way back in 1935, by the police in England, and has been repeatedly developed and enhanced by them since that time. Indeed, the traffic patrol police in Britain have long held the enviable reputation of being the safest, high-speed, public-road drivers in the world. Police officers in the UK who are not traffic patrol officers also get significant training but nowhere near the level reached by their "traffic" colleagues.
Over fifty years ago, in 1955, the same training techniques -- without the "high speed" element, of course -- were made available to all drivers in Britain by two organizations:
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The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents "Advanced Drivers Association" [nowadays abbreviated to "RoADA" rather than the older "RoSPA-ADA"]
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The Institute of Advanced Motorists [IAM]
Now, Advanced Drivers of America has brought those same standards for the first time to the USA, and is also expanding the availability of such in Canada.
It is important for potential instructors to know that true advanced driving skills have little to do with skid pad [a.k.a. "skid pan"] techniques and absolutely nothing to do with learning to swerve left or right at the last minute in order to avoid a real or imaginary collision. Regrettably, research has shown that rather than teach greater safety, such methods can actually result in more, not less, long-term danger for the trainees due to merely boosting overconfidence about one's ability to get out of a crisis!
The fact is that true advanced driving requires extensive training to allow drivers to learn accurately and reliably how to avoid dangers in advance rather than learn techniques by which one can merely try to escape from a crisis that has already started!
(Please note that if you formerly lived in Britain, or other countries offering IAM- or RoSPA-equivalent advanced driving courses -- and you underwent any of those courses -- or you were a UK advanced police driver, we would be particularly keen to hear from you. In this context, however, it is important for you to know that unless you live or intend to live in the USA or Canada it could prove extremely difficult for us to use your services. Feel free to contact us to discuss this aspect.)
How Can You
Participate? ADA will be running
another instructors' course over three consecutive weeks
during early fall, 2007 -- probably in either
Texas (DFW area) or New York State (central region).
The first two weeks will focus on advanced driving skills and the
final week will take successful trainees towards the highest level of advanced driving instructorship currently available in the U.S.A.
Naturally, it must be stressed that advanced instructors'
courses will not involve any speeds in excess of legal limits;
these courses are tailored for civilian advanced instructors not high-speed police
driving. It is a suitable course for police trainers
who are looking for a detailed introduction to the Roadcraft method of advanced driving,
but our need for additional ADA instructor is such that
they must be given priority over law enforcement
personnel at this moment in time.
A maximum of three applicants will be accepted to attend this course, on a first-come-first-served basis.
Preference will be given to individuals who wish to work
full-time for ADA, immediately following the course.
For details of the cost of the course and of the subsequent, long-term opportunity with ADA, please e-mail
me at
e.wren@advanceddrivers.com and include daytime and evening telephone numbers at which you may be contacted,
together with brief details of your background and the
reasons you think you would be suitable for this
specialized work.
Eddie Wren
President
Cell:
(716) 907-0565
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