Why I decided to write this Book


I have been teaching people to drive for the past eight years. During that time I have been fortunate enough to teach individuals from all over the world and from a variety of backgrounds, including forces personnel, doctors, nurses and the unemployed, from all ethnic backgrounds and from religious persuasions.

People ranging in age from 17yrs to 80yrs old have passed through my hands in my capacity as a driving instructor; from the nervous & shy 17yr old girl to the 17yr old boy racer who knows everything; individuals in their 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and 60’s who have been learning to drive longer than they care to remember and who have wasted a fortune in lessons and failed tests over the years for what ever reason.

To the 80 year old great grandparent who wants to be re-assured they are still able and competent enough to be out on the road driving their own vehicle. People who have recently for whatever reason, arrived in this country with poor English skills - you name it and I have seen and taught them all.

This has given me a tremendously rich mixture of pupils from which to draw my experiences and conclusions from and which prompted me to write this book in the first place.

When I first started out in this profession I had a Franchise with a company that specialised in Intensive Driving Courses over a five day period; comprising of 5 hours of tuition every day from Monday to Friday followed by their test booked for the last test time on the Friday after their lessons.

As you can imagine the fee / cost for this one week of intensive lessons followed by a test is a large amount of money to have to pay in one go, so in order to attract customers, the ‘PASS’ rate has to be above the national average (currently 44% per 30 tests taken as published by the Driving Standards Agency).

So in order to maintain a high standard of pass rate, I had to think of a way to make tuition pretty easy and simple to understand; as I was faced with individuals of varying abilities, races ages and many with nervous dispositions or bad experiences of driving a car which they had to overcome before being successful and passing their test.

During my time with this Company I was very successful and achieved a Pass Rate of 78% (out of total tests taken by MY pupils). This company ALSO taught individuals how to become DRIVING INSTRUCTORS and the driving system or method of teaching I learned there greatly influenced me on developing and using the PROGRAMME OVER MEMORY (POM) technique, which this book explains in greater detail.

Without a shadow of a doubt this ‘POM’ style of driving has helped and continues to help people from all over the world pass their test and go onto becoming safe and competent drivers.

Please take the time to read this book and absorb what I say and I’m sure you’ll agree

THAT IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE!