What Do I Do After I Qualify As A DVSA ADI?

What Do I Do After I Qualify As A Driving Instructor, DVSA ADI?

Your choices for how to work teaching learner drivers:
- Start your own driving school and work completely independently as a 1 person business
- Work on a franchise with Birmingham Driving School
  - Or one of our other sister company driving schools in the West Midlands
- Work on a franchise with another driving school

Birmingham Driving School operates across all of the Birmingham area
- Mainly delivering driving lessons to provisional licence holders preparing for the L test, but also offering:
  - Semi intensive driving courses
  - Intensive driving courses
  - Refresher driving lessons
  - Taxi driving test preparation
We also operate driving schools across the West Midlands area, including
- Black Country, Dudley, Redditch, Sandwell, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Walsall, Wolverhampton and other areas

Birmingham Driving School is usually busy and looking out for new driving instructors, both full time and part time
We offer, what we feel is one of the fairest franchise deals for driving instructors
- Unlike most franchises, with A Birmingham Driving School Franchise
  - You pay franchise fees based on how much or little you work
  - You are not restricted to how much holiday you take
  - You don't pay franchise fees when you're not working, for example:
    - When on holiday
    - When you take time off
    - When you are ill
    - When bad weather prevents you from working

We can offer assistance to anyone that trained with Driving Instructor Trainers that decides to start their own Driving School
- With your driving school, you are responsible for every aspect of running your business
We will not run your business for you, or try to take over, but we can offer a helping hand, for example:
- Advice or suggestions on pricing, marketing and advertising
- Providing contact details for organisations that can help you with:
  - Driving Tuition Car Insurance
  - Driving School Dual Controlled Car Leasing
  - Short Term Dual Controlled Car Hire
  - Supply and fitting Dual Controls
  - Training Courses and Continuous Professional Development
  - Professional Indemnity and Public Liability Insurance
  - Whatever your requirement is, we probably know where to direct you

Before signing any franchise agreement, read the agreement very thoroughly
Consider whether you need to take legal advice, before signing a franchise agreement

Some franchise agreements are good and fair, but some may have clauses that you are not happy with
Some things to look out for:
- What time period are you committing to?
- What notice period do you need to give to leave the franchise?
- A franchise agreement will typically committ you to paying a fixed fee for a minimum time period
- Some franchises involve the driving instructor agreeing and committing to certain actions
- Some franchises involve the driving school committing to very little
- A guarantee to provide a certain number of clients over a year, may not protect you
  - You can't dispute the clause until the year is over, the driving school could provide you with a lot of clients in the final week of the year!
  - The clause may not specify how many lessons the client will have
- Do you pay the franchise if you can't work, for example:
  - If you are ill?
  - If your car is off the road?
  - If bad weather makes it unsafe to teach?

Before signing any franchise agreement, read the agreement very thoroughly
Consider whether you need to take legal advice, before signing a franchise agreement