RED Driving School

Red Driving school offer professional driving instructor training using qualified trainers. Many of their staff have been recruited from other driver training organisations. With their tv adverts, they have probably taken over from BSM as the best know driving instructor training organisation, even though the number of qualified instructors teaching learners under the red driving school name is significantly smaller.

At present (2009) they advertise two levels of franchise:

£185 per week (from) for a full red driving school franchise including car, servicing and pupil referrals

£85 per week (from) for a red headboard franchise (you provide your own car)

So you can expect a full franchise to cost you around £9,000 per year. Like all driving school franchises there is small print to read. So you will need to expect that at £9,000 per year, you need to expect that the first 8 or 9 lessons you teach each week will go to pay your franchise. The franchise does not include fuel costs. Make sure you take into account other costs such as your adi licence, book-keeping costs etc.

If you are thinking of training as an instructor with red driving school, it is important that you go in with your eyes wide open. No instructor training organisation can guarantee that you will pass the exams, although of course, the better the training you get, the more chance you have!

Remember too that a "guaranteed job" offered by many instructor training organisations, is in fact a franchise package where you are self-employed. As such there is no guarantee that you will get a certain number of pupils per week.

Red driving school is a division of lvg ltd. Visit the Red driving school website reddrivingschool.com for the latest information about their franchises.