Behind-the-Wheel Training
One-to-one lessons with pick-up and drop-off, from a single hour to the full six.
from $160
Behind the Wheel
DMV Licence E1996Since 1997
Manual, international, medical assessment — the lessons other schools turn down.
Better drivers, safer roads.
Courses
Including the ones nobody else teaches.
Manual transmission, licences transferred from abroad, and a Michigan BDI course approved by the Michigan Department of State — alongside the behind-the-wheel training.
Manual Transmission
Learning to drive a manual is a skill worth having, and almost nobody in Orange County still teaches it.
Stick ShiftDMV Road Test
Take the test in the school car with an instructor who has driven the local examiner routes for decades.
from $300
Road Test
Specialist Programs
Seniors, international licence transfers, drivers with special needs, medical driving assessments and fleet evaluation.
SpecialistPricing
Priced by the hour, so you can check it.
Lessons are sold by the hour, so the arithmetic is yours to check.
One instructor, one student, pick-up and drop-off included. Buy by the hour or by the package.
1 hour
A single hour
$160 · $160/hr
What you get
1 lesson of 1 hour · 1 hours total
- One-to-one instruction — included
- Pick-up and drop-off from anywhere local — included
- DMV-licensed instructors — not included
- The school car for the DMV road test — not included
2 hours
The standard lesson length
$230 · $115/hr
Saves $90 against two single hours
What you get
2 lessons of 1 hour · 2 hours total
- One-to-one instruction — included
- Pick-up and drop-off from anywhere local — included
- DMV-licensed instructors — included
- The school car for the DMV road test — not included
4 hours
Two lessons
$420 · $105/hr
Saves $40 against two 2-hour lessons
What you get
4 lessons of 1 hour · 4 hours total
- One-to-one instruction — included
- Pick-up and drop-off from anywhere local — included
- DMV-licensed instructors — included
- The school car for the DMV road test — not included
6 hours
Three lessons — the DMV minimum for under-18s
$525 · $88/hr
Saves $165 against three 2-hour lessons
What you get
6 lessons of 1 hour · 6 hours total
- One-to-one instruction — included
- Pick-up and drop-off from anywhere local — included
- DMV-licensed instructors — included
- The school car for the DMV road test — not included
6 hours + DMV road test
Three lessons and the test itself
$775 · $129/hr
Saves $50 against booking the road test separately
What you get
6 lessons of 1 hour · 6 hours total
- One-to-one instruction — included
- Pick-up and drop-off from anywhere local — included
- DMV-licensed instructors — included
- The school car for the DMV road test — included
Prefer to buy lessons one at a time? See individual lesson prices.
DMV road test
The line the examiner is looking for.
Four manoeuvres decide most California drive tests. Press one and watch the route taught in every lesson.
Press a manoeuvre
Parallel Park
Pull level with the car in front of the space and sit about a metre off it. Reverse on full lock until you are round 45 degrees, straighten, then opposite lock brings the tail in and the car comes out parallel. The examiner is marking your mirror and blind-spot checks at least as closely as the car.
- Pull alongside the car in front of the space.
- Reverse on full lock to 46°.
- Opposite lock swings the tail in.
- Straighten up and centre in the space.
Every instructor here has driven the examiner routes in Orange County more times than they can count.
The cars
Manual and automatic, both dual-controlled.
DMV-licensed instructors, dual-control cars, and a manual-transmission car for the students almost no other school in the county will take.
- Manual transmission instruction available
- The school car for the DMV road test
- Pick-up and drop-off from anywhere local
- Instructors hold DMV professional licences
Pick-up and drop-off