15th January 2025

Controlling work time

Here is a question for you to consider. If you could choose a four hour work slot in your weekday, what would it be? Like to […]
14th January 2025

New driving school business

When you start a new career as a driving instructor, it is quite natural to focus your attention on what you believe is the most important aspect, […]
13th January 2025

Start at the beginning

When it comes to helping customers; whether it be people wanting to become a driving instructor, a better driving instructor or indeed, a pupil wanting to […]
12th January 2025

Focus on the doing

The BIG TOM Driving School has been established since 2009. We have worked to help customers achieve their driving goals for a long time, and we […]
7th January 2025

What it means to be competent

Any driving instructor who has been in their career a while, will agree that a dangerous combination is: supreme confidence + incompetence This does not make […]
11th December 2024

Support from a mentor

One of the challenges of being a sole-trader, self-employed driving instructor, is that you are aware of being alone. The latest DVSA survey of driving instructors […]
15th November 2024

Making good business decisions

Most people who are considering becoming a driving instructor for a new career, have got two main worries:  I don’t have a driving school car – […]
13th November 2024

The mark of a good trainer

A hard-to-describe feeling is that feeling we get within ourselves when we recognise that we are learning and loving it. You instinctively know that what is […]
12th November 2024

Finding focus in the chaos

Driving examiners like thinking drivers and learners like thinking driving instructors.   Anyone with an interest in learning may recall Daniel Willingham, “Memory is the residue […]
10th November 2024

Revolutionary lifts

Let’s take you on a journey into the future, a future that does not include being held up by traditional lifts in high-rise buildings.   Imagine […]
19th October 2025

Instructor styles and pupil needs

A value of the BIG TOM franchise is its desire to accommodate and align to customers’ needs. When applying that value to the subject of delivery […]
18th October 2025

Agreeing objectives with pupils

One of the more challenging situations that can develop within the working relationship of driving instructor and pupil is when they have differing ideas of what […]
18th October 2025

Brand recognition

A powerful advantage of purchasing a BIG TOM franchise is the brand recognition that has been created since 2009. Customers quite rightly want to see evidence […]
19th January 2025

The deepest loneliness imaginable

Being a driving instructor can be a very lonely way to make a living. Beyond speaking with our pupils on driving lessons, we can go hours […]