A fulfilling career as a driving instructor is similar to being a school teacher. One operates in a classroom environment, the other within a car. The essential aspect is that they are both educators. The course is designed to develop professional driver trainers with the skills and knowledge to teach learner drivers the necessary skills to become safe, low risk drivers.

By Becoming a driving instructor, you can build your own small business by passing on your driving experience and helping young learners to grow and become low risk drivers.

10 hours a week providing driving lessons has the potential to bring you around $600 – $700, depending on the area of operation for your driving school.

Additionally, providing 10 Hours a week of driving instruction can alleviate rising interest rate pressure and mortgage stress.

*Disclaimer: the purpose of this document is to provide guidance. This has no legal status or effect, and information is subject to change.

Establishing your own driving school, you can operate on a part time basis at 10 hours a week, or as a career providing between 25-30 hours a week. The current average lesson fee is around $70 an hour, making driving instruction a very profitable career option.

Advantages of Operating Your Own Driving School

• Work flexible hours in your local area and meet new people
• Opportunity to establish and run your own low risk driving school
• Gain similar tax advantages to that of self employed people
• Exciting new career education young people to become low risk drivers

About PVET

PVET is a registered training organisation (RTO) that has been in operation since 2001, providing nationally recognised training and assessment regulated by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA).

• PVET has trained over 1600+ people to obtain their driving instructor licence.
• For the past 15 years we have been involved in training new driving instructors for NRMA
• For over 10 years we trained NSW Fire Brigade to obtain Certificate IV in heavy vehicle instructor qualifications
• We have trained over 120 members of the NSW police force, some still serving and many of them in retirement.

How Does PVET Institute Differ From Other Providers?

In order to achieve our mission PVET Institute:

• Provides courses tailored to individual needs for those seeking a change in career, work/life balance or need to update their current qualification.

PVET institute conducts training and assessment on a one to one or small group basis with flexible training hours to suit each trainee’s work and family schedules. Along with being able to offer flexible modes of delivery, PVET institute has assembled a group of highly qualified, industry experienced trainers and assessors with the knowledge and skills to assist students in becoming a driving instructor and starting their own driving instructor business.

RTO REGISTERED NAME: PETERS DRIVING AND TRAINING PTY LTD, OPERATING UNDER PVET INSTITUTE

RTO CODE: 90753