Driving instructors using mobile phone during lessons

Driving instructors on mobile phone during lessons.

I don't understand how some instructors can justify being on the mobile phone while giving a driving lesson to a learner driver client of theirs. Not all instructors break the law when they do this, as demonstrated by the adi of a well known national driving school who I saw in a supermarket car park busy chating on her mobile phone while the learner driver continued to practice the bay parking manuever.



My driving lesson was teaching a complete beginner the same exercise, so I had to spend some time doing a briefing, and throughout that time the learner countinued to park to either the left or right, while this would have been good practice for the test candidate, the instructor should have been checking to see that the learner was taking effective observations, as the DSA examiner not only expects the candidate to carry out the exercise, but it must be done safely without posing a danger to other road users including pedestrians.

The reason many driving instructors spend time chating on the mobile phone during lessons is because you the learner driver tolerates it! If every provisional learner told their ADI that they will change instructors if he/she made calls when they should be supervising or teaching one how to drive, this behaviour will stop.

You are paying the instructor for their time to teach you driving skills, and if you are not getting their undivided attention go to someone else who will give you a better service, afterall there is no shortage of instructors looking for work.

Recently a learner driver called me because they had been caught by the police with the instructor on the mobile phone during a driving lesson. This had been an upsetting experience for the person, and just goes to show how un-professional some people can be. Don't allow your ADI to get away with this kind of service, change instructors immediately!