About Us

You can replay a video & talk about it for a month - you don't get that luxury out in the real world, you have to learn to see the situation & get it right as it happens. Consider this. Would you trust your life to an airline pilot who has only watched videos, talked about flying and sat in a simulator? Airlines don't. Why do some 'driving education' organisations advocate these methods as being sufficient training for drivers then? In one year, more people are killed & injured on New Zealand roads than die in air crashes.

Advanced Roadskills programmes are focused on meeting the needs of four target groups...

• Schools and youth groups that want to ensure that the youth of today are safe and competent drivers of the future.
• Companies whose staff have company cars.
• Individuals who want to enhance their driving skills so that they are able to drive more competently.
• Drivers who need high-level driving skills who are responsible for the safety of others (ie: emergency services).

All of our trainers are qualified driving instructors, holding the LTSA ‘I’ endorsement (this is the only instructor qualification recognized since 1999) all of our driver trainers are highly experienced driving instructors trained to the same exacting standards required by the Police Driver training Colleges in the UK. We also have New Zealand's top motor cycle instructor, 4 wheel-drive specialists, on hand to help road safety organisations and Government departments with research work. Advanced Roadskills courses are based around standards set for European Fleet Driver Training.

Advanced Roadskills, Fleet Driver Training is the only organisation that teaches advanced driving in the environment and situations that drivers face every day - on the road! Most companies spend a significant amount on training their staff, from sales techniques to customer service. Yet company drivers are sometime entrusted with an expensive asset with absolutely no training, apart from that received to pass their basic driving test, often many years before. Driving is normally the most dangerous daily activity for most people and Advanced Roadskills Fleet Training Courses will greatly reduce that danger.

The main reason for this is that ARL concentrates it's Fleet training in the environment that all drivers face - on New Zealand's roads. Advanced driver training for ARL must contain the elements that crop up every second of every day and that cannot be done on a race track, an airport runway, or large areas of grass or gravel. Vehicle dynamics, Emergency braking techniques, crash avoidance exercises, skid recognition/recovery, reaction time testing are only elements of ARL courses which are conducted at the Road and Traffic Education Centre at Ardmore Airport. Our courses take a more comprehensive approach to avoiding crashes; for example, early hazard recognition to avoid an emergency situation developing and commentary driving . Also it is important to have the instructors on board continuously throughout the day so that clients have a 'one on one' relationship with each instructor. This ensures that nothing is missed as is the case when instructors are conducting courses from outside the vehicles. This means that Advanced Roadskills have the best participant to instructor ratio compared to any other course in New Zealand.