Tuesday, August 12, 2008

For Every Ending There Is A New Beginning

With a Passion for Road Safety and Road Safety Education our family has been in the business of training new drivers and re-training drivers young and old alike for the past 20 years. Up until May 20th, 2008 our company had been operating as a franchisee with the premium branded driver training school in Canada. Simultaneously, 25 training centre from across Canada, who had alsobeen of that franchise, ventured out from that brand name and branded program, taking their knowledge, experience and expertise to start again with a new, exciting and highly innovative state-of-the-art program. After 20 years having a well known name and good program wasn't good enough for us anymore. Our commitment was to our customer which we viewed from a new perspective, as our own children were now approaching driving age. As parents, we wanted something more for our children and we figured if we wanted more then our customers probably wanted more also.

We have seen the change in the way people learn. Young people require learning to be highly interactive in order to retain the materials being taught to them! That is why we were proud to partner with DriveWise Canada. DriveWise Canada has taken driver training to a whole new high-tech level by incorporating state-of-the-art virtual reality simulation training into the classroom component of the program.

Simulation Training has been used as an effective training tool in the aerospace industry for years. Pilots train on flight simulators long before they fly an actual aircraft. Simulation Training for the wheeled transportation industry seemed like a logical next step. The key to Simulation Training lies with having an expert in the field and that is why this new program is destined to succeed. Lesley de Repentigny and her partner/husband Martin de Repentigny are experts in training development and deployment both having come from a Military background. They understand how simulation works and how it can and should be incorporated into a training plan. They have put together programs for many Municipal Fire, Police and EMS Services across Canada, as well as creating programs for the Canadian Forces. DriveWise has recently been awarded a spot in a research study being done by Transport Canada to look at the effect sleep or lack of sleep has on Truck Drivers. DriveWise Canada is a force to be reckoned with in the Driver Training Industry, teaming training experts with a large group of training centres who are experts in the their markets for deploying a good training program. DriveWise is a Canadian success story...watch how it unfolds...!!!

Click on the link to watch a brief video about DriveWise Canada http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDzptF0ImHo

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