A bit about me to let you know I know a bit about driving.

Like many other things in life, an inward journey will make you a much better driver.

This is where we start the serious business of learning about control and how control is fundamental to safe driving.

Self-control: perhaps the most difficult thing to learn. For young people (and old immature people) this section might prove to be distasteful medicine. But it could just make you a better driver.

Control Your Vehicle

This section gets us into the nitty gritty of driving. You may find this section talks about things that are only rumours and shadows to most drivers (and many driving instructors).

Control The Road

Control the road? Are you mad? How on earth can you legitimately tell us we can control the road?

Read on and learn how the professionals do it. Not all that difficult, really.

This part of the website is under construction

Learning to Drive

Do you want to learn to drive, or just get a license so you can go somewhere in a car?

This part of the website is about learning to drive safely. Your driving instructor may not fully appreciate the difference but you should.

Does it Matter?

Indeed it does.

Each year 1,200,000 human lives are ended in automobile 'accidents'.

Of these, almost 600,000 are pedestrians, cyclists or motorized two-wheeler drivers.

Road traffic accidents are the world's leading cause of death among young people between 15 and 25 years of age, and the second leading cause of death for 5 to 14 year olds.

To put it into perspective, more than a thousand young people under the age of 25 are killed every day.

Additionally, 20 to 50 million people are injured or disabled every year.

There really is a difference. From my personal background, the difference is between being a professional driver or being one of the other bunch, the mob that includes white van men, SUV mums, boy racers and 'red mist' police officers.

In the professional driving scene there is a slogan that's been around for many years and it's still the best. Here it is:

Safe Driving is No Accident

It's not just a play on words. There are professional drivers who have each driven millions of accident-free miles in very large trucks in all kinds of weather, including real winter.

Mouseover Thinkoid

Here and there you will see a bright green circle with a picture of a mouse (that's the critter, not the computer thing). If you put your mouse (that's the computer thing, not the critter) over the picture of the mouse critter (hover, don't click), a box will pop up. This is a Thinkoid, i.e. something to stimulate thinking.

In my time in trucking management I hired several drivers who had driven more than three million accident-free miles. A million accident-free miles is fairly common in the professional world. I did that much myself before going into management.

How do they do it?

Keep reading and I'll show you.

Convention: I use both North American and British words and terminology, with the North American first. So, for example, tire/tyre, semi/articulated lorry. and so on.