Key Features
Gain peace of mind
Meet your ‘duty of care’ obligations as an employer of staff who drive for work.
Safety culture within your business
Create a better driver safety culture for your minibus drivers that will also deliver a more comfortable experience for their passengers.
Understand the priorities of a driver in an emergency situation
Training that helps you to prioritise the safety of both passengers and drivers, especially during challenging or emergency situations.
Reduce fleet operating costs
We’ll equip your drivers with the tools required to reduce operating costs through safer and more efficient minibus driving practices.
Understand what makes a great minibus driver
Beyond just technical driving abilities, various skills are essential for this task, ranging from vehicle operation to interpersonal and emergency management skills. We’ll help take your drivers on a journey from good to great.
Driver training for minibus drivers
Driving a minibus safely and ensuring passengers’ well-being demands a diverse skill set and comes with a high level of responsibility. Beyond just technical driving abilities, various skills are essential for this task, ranging from vehicle operation to interpersonal and emergency management skills.
What skills are required for safe minibus driving?
The fundamental skill is expertise in operating a minibus safely. This includes understanding vehicle controls, manoeuvring in different road conditions, parking, and navigating through traffic. A deep understanding of traffic laws and regulations is indispensable. This involves not only knowing the rules but also staying current with any changes. Compliance with speed limits, road signs, and understanding right-of-way protocols is essential. Effective communication is vital for ensuring passenger safety and comfort.
FAQs
What skills does a good minibus driver need to learn?
Being a good minibus driver requires a combination of technical driving skills, safety awareness, and professionalism. We’ll help to take your drivers from good to great.
Why is minibus driver training so important?
Minibus driver training is really important because your minibus drivers are not only responsible for their own safety, but for passengers too, and potentially for vulnerable passengers.
Are your minibus training courses on-road?
At present, our only minibus training product is an on-road course.
What will I learn during a minibus training course?
- understand the importance of vehicle safety checks.
- be able to demonstrate safe loading and unloading of passengers.
- examine the vehicle’s dimensions and where blind spots are.
- understand the priorities of a driver in an emergency situation.
- look at the information needed when contacting the emergency services.
- understand in what situations a minibus should be evacuated of its passengers
- implement the CARE principles.
Featured Courses
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Minibus Safe Drive
Driving a minibus safely and ensuring passengers’ well-being demands a diverse skill set and comes with a high level of responsibility. At the end of the course, participants will:
- Understand that being a good minibus driver requires a combination of technical driving skills, safety awareness, and professionalism.
- Be able to prioritise safety, follow the rules of the road, and continuously work on improving driving skills and knowledge.
- Appreciate that operating a minibus in the UK involves understanding and complying with a comprehensive set of laws and regulations.
- Understand the vehicle’s dimensions and how this helps to navigate safely through various traffic situations, including narrow streets, tight parking spaces, and low clearance areas.
- Have the skills to reduce the risk of accidents and collisions.
Duration: 2 DaysDelivery: In Person, On-Road
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Advanced Driving Diploma
Equip yourself with cutting edge knowledge and best practice driving techniques with the DVSA endorsed AA Advanced Driving Diploma. Designed for drivers of cars, light commercial vehicles, LGVs and PCVs, the qualification is based on the principles of Roadcraft, the police drivers’ handbook.
Half Day / Full Day / Two Days
Duration: 2 Days, Full Day, Half DayDelivery: In Person, On-Road -
Minibus Safe Drive
Driving a minibus safely and ensuring passengers’ well-being demands a diverse skill set and comes with a high level of responsibility. At the end of the course, participants will:
- Understand that being a good minibus driver requires a combination of technical driving skills, safety awareness, and professionalism.
- Be able to prioritise safety, follow the rules of the road, and continuously work on improving driving skills and knowledge.
- Appreciate that operating a minibus in the UK involves understanding and complying with a comprehensive set of laws and regulations.
- Understand the vehicle’s dimensions and how this helps to navigate safely through various traffic situations, including narrow streets, tight parking spaces, and low clearance areas.
- Have the skills to reduce the risk of accidents and collisions.
Duration: 2 DaysDelivery: In Person, On-Road -
Real World In-Vehicle
A driver awareness CPC course which can be delivered whilst the driver is working. It is designed to influence a driver’s attitude and behaviour, and improve competence. It will increase a driver’s safety margins, provide awareness of speed limits and compliance, encourage a more proactive approach behind the wheel and provide a practical update on the Highway Code. Suitable for LGV / HGV & PCV.
7 hrs
Duration: Full DayDelivery: On-Road