My brother is thinking of doing it.

Any tips, pitfalls, advice?

Ta

Blah wrote:

Ray, can you help this guy?

(x-posted from uk.transport)

"Blah" microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Just my opinion, but I would imagine the biggest pitfall at the moment - it
being advertised as a 30k career all over the place - is that it would be
over subscribed. Expect that situation to get worse as the economy nosedives
and people sink their redundancy into setting themselves up, only to find
themselves in the same situation that a lot did with taxi driving many years
ago.

If a self employed/franchise opportunity sounds too good to be true then it
probably is.

Brian.

In article <6160r0F1tcr0sU1@mid.individual.net>, Blah says...

World and dog doing it. Numbers of learners dropping.

"Brian Robertson" nospam.com> wrote in message
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You'd have to work a lot of hours to make 30k profit.

At

Brimstone wrote:

Not many people who are used to reasonably-paid jobs stick at it. Like
any labour-intensive self-employed job that's easy - and cheap - to get
into, the supply is always in danger of outstripping demand. Perhaps
there's the odd spot where it doesn't (Kensington? Chelsea?) but out in
the more real world, it's hand-to-mouth.

I know of at least three friends who have taken it up at various times
over the last thirty years. Only one of them lasted more than a few
months, and that only because he supplemented his income by still doing
(part-time) the job he hated and wanted to get out of in the first
place. He went back to it full-time eventually.

"Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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First question should be, does he live in a town where every tenth (or so)
car on the road is a driving school car?

"Conor" hotmail.com> wrote

He's far more likely to get a quick and guaranteed return on his investment
if he takes his Class 1, imo.

"Knight Of The Road" hotmail.com> wrote in message
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In article <8_mdne1-SuNbUzDanZ2dnUVZ8sqjnZ2d@bt.com>, brimstone520-ng02
@yahoo.co.uk says...

It is only worthwhile if you are going to own the car and get your own
business. In my experience, if you drive for a school it isn't going to
give you an easy life.

I had to work for two weeks out the month to pay for the car, fuel,
school fee and other expenses. That left two weeks of lessons to pay me
a wage. However, a certain percentage of those lessons are going to be
cancelled. There are days when I had 7 lessons booked, but 4 students
were not there when I knocked on the door! Many cancel without enough
time to re-book.