Im sitting here watching the outdoor channel and they are talking about winter driving schools.
THis got me to thinking.
Who has been to one of these driving schools (winter, offroad, or whatever).
How do you find the time and money to spend a week or so away from work in addition to the travel time?

 

Planning?

Some would find a class like this so useful they would plan it like a vacation!

Personnally, I would prefer bondurant or petty.

Tony

 

winter driving school Im in winter driving school every day 7 months a year

 

A winter driving school? I must have missed that one. Must be for flat landers.

When you grow up in a place planted on the side of a hill, you know how too drive in the snow/ice.

If you don't learn how to drive in the snow on a hill, you tend too end up down at the bottem.

 

Give me a call you can come on out i have lots of time from december - march to teach you ! I can show you blowing and drifting, white outs,slush,glare ice,deep snow, heavy wet or light fluffy + salt spray you name it. My only request is we use your vehicle because the only thing i see good about winter driving is it keeps the car companys going because it sure makes junk out of your vehicle fast. As a bonus maybe you would like to try the MX-275 tractor (cummins powered of course) with a 34' tanker behind it on glare ice the tanker loaded weighs 90k and provides lots of fun For some reason the passenger seat has a lot of finger nail marks dug into it any ideas why???

 

Back in the day...They used to let people go out on the local base, they would have part of the airfied sectioned off and cones put out and would let people go out and practic...Sure helped with the military kids coming up from the south that had never seen snow.

 

I can see the benefit of these different driving schools, but I dont see the point of dropping $2000 or more to spend a week being told how to drive my vehicle in a situation that 99.99% of the other people cant and will end up crashing me anyway.

 

Over here a drivers course for snow is mandatory for all young drivers in the first year after they get their drivers license.

I see good results from those courses and think that in our region they do pay off. I found out that being able to control your vehicle well under these circumstances helps in avoiding stupid drivers trying to hit you.

AlpineRAM

 

How do you think the Flatlanders wound up on the Flatlands

 

I'm an offroad driving instructor for Hummer...

 

what does it cost to take the hummer driving school? how long?

 

We teach on the H1, H2, and H3, and you have to own a truck, but we drive our trucks so that owners don't have to worry about scratching theirs. Each Academy is different, the H1 is 5 days, $5200, all inclusive plus gifts of hats, shirts, gloves, bags, jackets, and a couple high priced items. The H2 is 3 days, $3700, all inclusive. The H3 is $2500, a day and a half, and again all inclusive. Never had anyone that attended not think it was well worth the money. The 5 full time instructors have well over 100 years of knowledge and have wheeled all over the world...

 

What all is involved in the class?
Is it just out trail riding and showing people what the vehicles can do?

 

Go to hummer.com , top bar will be hummer world, scroll down to driving academy. Do a google search on Hummer driving academy, lots of articles written on it, too. Its a pretty involed class, lots of winching and recovery, map reading, GPS, vehicle component overview, a mild tech session with hands on training, factory tour, and student driving. We have 320 acres that has close to 18 miles of trails...my office.

 

Interesting... I have one seen one hummer off road and that was a video of it breaking... I didn't know people took them off the pavement.

Looks like it would be fun, just not $5000 fun. I can take my truck and a buddies jeep and do less than $5000 worth of damage.