Why choose LDC

Why train with and join LDC?

• LDC has over a 35 year proven track record of success - Thousands have passed with LDC and gone on to run a succesful driving school business initially as part of LDC then later on their own.
• LDC currently supports around 400 highly successful LDC driving school franchised instructors across the UK most of whom have customer waiting lists, charging premium lesson and intensive course rates higher than our competitors.
• LDC course fees to become a driving instructor are very competitive starting from just £895 on our pay-as-you-learn option or £2,395 as a one-off payment.
• LDC provides up to 70 hours (premium course option) of guided practical training mainly in-car 1-to-1 with specially trained LDC Approved Driving Instructor trainers.
• LDC provides over 100 hours of interactive open learning using our comprehensive iCourse, Apps, self-study materials/videos and Zoom workshops for Parts 1, 2 and 3 with dozens of video examples.
• LDC provides a further 3 days business start–up course (an extra 18 hours) on how to run a successful quality driving school business when you decide to join us.
• LDC provides free bi-monthly CPD workshops from various leading undustry experts for our franchisees.
• LDC can be trusted to provide the essential on-the-job training to pass Part 3 on a Trainee Licence once passed Part 2 of the qualifying examination so you can earn as you learn. Train for Free is an alternative to a Trainee Licence also offered by LDC so you can keep your current job until qualified.
• LDC usually only offer Trainee Licence positions to those who purchase training with us.
• LDC offer a super low franchise membership fee at only £75 per week with the option to rent, buy or use your own car (if suitable). Potentially saving you up to £5,000 per year compared to other national driving school franchises without the long term tie-in they demand.
• LDC offer the first months franchise free when you train with us and a franchise fee that drops to £66 per week after 12 months and £60 per week after 24 months.
• LDC DO NOT tie you into a 12 to 36 month expensive franchise/car hire agreement like most other driving schools do! Once qualified, you need only stay 5 months after which we require just 1 months written notice to leave the franchise.
• LDC DO NOT combine the franchise agreement with a car rental agreement. Therefore, you can choose your own means to provide a car in addition to those we can arrange for you.
• LDC DO NOT have restrictive contractual clauses to make it difficult to get past the Part 1 stage and thus avoid delivering any "so-called" free face-to-face in-car training unlike some other cheaper training providers - make sure you read the contract/agreement before you click to pay. These cheaper options are really just a logon to masses of online information and extensive compulsory written homwork exercises with little chance of getting any real face-to-face in-car training - certainly not 1-to-1. Such companies rely on your eagerness and your naivety about our industry to rope you in with their worthless guarantees, pressure selling tactics and fake repeating special deals. It is easy to be duped by misleading online content and devious sales people - please don't be one of them!!
• LDC provides a free business start up package of resources worth around £1,000 when you join - nobody gives you more sooner.
• LDC would normally charge an extra £500 to join our franchise as a newly qualified instructor from elsewhere but this fee is waived if you train with us in the first place.
• LDC instructors are taught in the use of the incredible LD System and the latest student-centred learning techniques. If you want to be the best, train with the best.
• LDC will teach you everything you need to run a highly professional top-class quality driving school when you join us.
• LDC are the ONLY national driving school accredited, under the MoD Enhanced Learning Credits (ELC) scheme, to train ex Military Service Personnel to become driving instructors.
• LDC can offer training nationwide covering the majority of the DVSA ADI test centres in the UK.
• LDC has a state-of-the-art approved driving instructor training centre in West Yorkshire just off the M62 backed up by a nationwide network of trainers.

Any training costing less than LDC is either

• very difficult to complete (forcing most to drop out before taking Part 1) and/or
• you are required to commit to an expensive long term franchise contract over 1 or 2 years or more.

So you either pay a lot more in the longer run being tied-in to a long term franchise/car rental contract or you end up having so much unnecessary compulsory academic work to do to pass Part 1 that you give up before getting any practical in-car training for parts 2 and 3. This is how cheaper training is possible - you get what you pay for or rather you don't. So-called Guarantees are only there to get you to impulse buy and are useless once you read the small print. This is why we believe LDC is the Smarter, Safer and most Cost Effective way to a new career as a driving instructor.

Do your research and check the small print

We recommend to anyone looking at training to become a driving instructor to do their research carefully and take their time. Finding the right company for you can be like crossing a mined field - one wrong move and you are finished. Some training providers want to sell as many courses as they can and use different ways to entice buyers. Read all terms and conditions and speak to their current franchisees. We list every single LDC driving school member on our website so you can pick anyone to call. Don't let the selling company organise this - it will probably be another sales person. It is easy for anyone to create a flashy website and brochure or make unbelievable guarantees that are then canceled out when you properly read the small print and realise what additional sums you have to pay to benefit from them. If you want a second opinion on any such claimed guarantees just give us a call and we will let you know how genuine or useful they really are. LDC publish our pass rates and we have a Part 3 pass rate of 83% (within the three attempts allowed). The DVSA published pass rate for Part 3 for the whole of the UK is only 29.8%. Currently in the UK only 20% of those who start a course to become a driving instructor actually go onto qualify and have a successful career. Therefore 80% waste there money/time which should tell you there are a lot of dubious training providers and bogus driving school companies out there selling instructor training just waiting to take your money and deliver as little as possible.

Next step

If you would like more details at this stage by post or email please complete the free information pack request form or call us FREE on 0800 197 0010 and we will be happy to answer any questions you may have.