Southern Districts Driving School

Ever thought of becoming a C class driver instructor?, want to be your own boss? work your own hours? your opportunity has arrived, starting in the new year, we have places available for enrolment now, a low cost comprehensive training course for people with a good history to help shape the drivers of the future, go to our website ditawa.au for more details and enrolment, or you can talk to current licenced driving instructors for any further info, myself (Todd) 0417944411 or Vicky 0481399872

Southern Districts Driving School Delivering calm and patient instruction for (C-A class)learners of all levels, Being a Licence Assessor for the Department of Transport for 15 years and 2 years as a licenced Driving Instructor gives me the experience and knowledge to know what it takes.

Ever thought of becoming a C class driver instructor?, want to be your own boss? work your own hours? your opportunity has arrived, starting in the new year, we have places available for enrolment now, a low cost comprehensive training course for people with a good history to help shape the drivers of the future, go to our website ditawa.au for more details and enrolment, or you can talk to current licenced driving instructors for any further info, myself (Todd) 0417944411 or Vicky 0481399872

Well!, it's now official, Robert has left Ezlicence and is working fulltime with Southern Districts Driving School, he is a licenced manual C class instructor with many years of experience, His area of operation is from East Fremantle to Applecross and to Hammond park/Wattle grove to Coogee and area's in between, so if you are looking an Instructor, go to southerndistrictsdrivingschool.com.au, register and start booking with us..

Introducing a Automatic Instructor Anil, new to our team, Anil lives and works in the Willeton and surrounding suburbs, has passed my stringent standard and is waiting to help students gain their automatic licence, go to our website southerndistrictsdrivingschool.com.au to register and book with Anil..

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Southern Districts Driving School now has another instructor, Robert Johnson has joined me and will be doing Manual Driving Lessons, this increases the availability of lessons for both Automatic and Manual in the southern area of Fremantle to Canning vale, Aubin Grove to Coogee..

Southern Districts Driving School Now offering Auto and Manual Please contact your experienced driver instructor Todd

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Welcome to Todd Talk
A couple of days ago, I was talking to a potential client about lessons for his daughter, He told me that there was a rumour that bookings for Practical Driving Assessment's (PDA's) had blown out to a two year wait.
In this Todd Talk I want dispel the misconceptions on availability of PDA's in the Perth Metro area.
If you have been searching for a PDA booking, then you will know how hard it is to find one when you want/need one, there are rumours flying around that there are no assessments available for approximately three months and more, I have heard staff in the licencing centre state this, but what they should be also stating is that 'currently there is no bookings available but the department is constantly releasing bookings as they ascertain Assessor availability and people cancel bookings at any time', so just keep looking/refreshing your search and you will find one.
In fact, I remember hearing/reading someone from the DoT stating that they hold back a one or a couple of Assessor's bookings in case an Assessor has to have a day off and release those booking only a week in advance.
So people, please don't panic, forget the rumours, in the last couple of weeks the Office for the Minister for Transport has done a media release stating that the Department has employed another seven Assessors and will do another recruitment drive later on this month, they have also put steps in place to counter the bulk booking and on-selling that some schools are currently doing, by 'stopping the swap' (which I covered in previous Todd Talk), so by the middle of this month we should see the PDA booking system to be fairer for all.
The Department is also recommending that people don't share their private details with third parties in an attempt to secure PDA bookings, remember your or your child's private details are just that, private.
Thankyou
Todd Wecker

Welcome to Todd Talk
I had a comment on my last addition of Todd Talk 'Stop the Swap', from another Driver Instructor from the Driving Instructors of Western Australia forum.
Rhod posed the question 'If the DoT is struggling maybe it's time they outsource PDA's, seems to work for vehicle inspections, Truck licences and is already working in South Australia.'
Good point, as it also has been introduced into Tasmania as well, but when look at the history of othe States ventures into privatisation of services, including licencing, they have mostly had to go down the road of recovery of those services due to misuse and corruption.
The Western Australian government has, in the past gone the way of 'public partnerships' as a way of extending services that they had previously and currently offer, as a consequence they have had to beef up their investigation and compliance to monitor the services.
The DoT has had to introduce changes to the access of the Instruction industry because of the lack of moral compasses of a few in the industry 'Stop the Swap'.. would we want these same people access to issuing certificates of compency to our novice drivers?
I would like to hear from you about this, so please respond, comment and share.
Thanks Todd Wecker

Welcome to the first Todd Talk
Subject - Stop the Swap
Anybody, who is trying to get their licence now, or knows/related to someone who is trying to get an Assessment in the Metro area, will know how hard it is to book an assessment, some learners are booking in the regional areas or even it's been reported that some are going interstate to do their assessment.
On the 16th March 2023, the Minister for Transport's office released a press release that on the 12 April 2023 the function for swapping assessments, available to Registered Driving Instructors will be switched off for a 6 month trial to try and alleviate the lack of available assessments to the public.
The Departments hand has been forced because of public pressure, to do something about the small amount of instructors/Driving Schools taking advantage of the online booking system, by using programs/Bots to book multiple assessment booking and on selling them as if they own those bookings, the Department has been made aware of such actions, but have always stated, when broached, that they can do little about it, as what they were doing wasn't considered to be illegal.
Is this a good solution? I believe it is, as I have been part of the chorus of people in the department and outside, that has raised this issue and remedy, Stop the Swap...
Todd

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To quote a famous radio host "Hello World", if you are familiar with my website 'southerndistrictsdrivingschool.com.au' (quite a mouthful), you would have read my bio and found out that I am a licenced Driver Instructor in the Fremantle, Melville and Cockburn areas, but I have had more experience than that in this industry, I was a MDL Assessor for the DoT for 15 years and have gained a good understanding of the Assessment process, the inner working of the DoT policies and procedures.
I would like to use this knowledge and experience to disseminate information to the public about training and assessment processes, it's goals and it's inception.
You will be able to post questions to me and I'll do my best to give factual and experienced answers, I will be able to pose these questions to the relevant authority for a unbiased answers, I will be attending Driver Instructor Workshops and receiving updated Bulletins from the DoT and will be periodically posting to keep you, the Western Australian public updated.
The purpose of these posts are not for me to force my opinions and biases on you, nor to create a whinge session on the difficulties that we all face, but to try and give you an understanding about why, how and when decisions are made, explain outcomes and how that outcome came to be.
Any opinions I express will be only my opinions and I ask that anybody commenting on my posts 'Please be Respectful' as this is not designed to hurt anybody, nor to be a forum for hate, racism or discrimination.
So look forward to future posts

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Just added two new suburbs to Zone 2, Atwell and Aubin Grove.
I'll be available to serve these suburbs on Tuesday's, Saturday afternoon and Sunday Mornings, go to my website to register and book.

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I have a special on until the 1st August, pay and book a driving lesson with Southern Districts Driving School and receive one free lesson (45 min), go to my website southerndistrictsdrivingschool.com.au to see if you qualify..

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