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East Vancouver Driving School is a service-driven, ICBC approved Driving School in Vancouver area.

Our Driving School is committed to excellence in order to provide defensive driver training to ensure your safety and the safety of others on the road.

We have developed a teaching strategy that will tremendously improve your driving skills and allow you to easily pass the ICBC road test.

You will be enjoying in-car training focused on defensive driving skills, hazard recognizing and accident avoidance techniques as well as on traffic rules and regulations.

To ensure your comfort and safety for road lessons we use dual control and advanced mirror system equipped vehicles. Our driving instructors are patient, certified professionals with years of experience in the field.

East Vancouver driving school provides driving training throughout the Lower Mainland Vancouver area including:

Vancouver
Burnaby
New Westminster
Coquitlam
Surrey

We have driving instructors able to teach driving lessons in:

English
Russian
Romanian

For new drivers we offer discount packages to gain necessary skills to pass the ICBC road test and to become confident behind the wheel.

At East Vancouver Driving School you will find:

Quality driver training to gain/improve your driving skills and/or pass the ICBC road test
Best certified driving instructor s in the industry
In-car one-to-one driving lessons using dual control vehicles
Male and female experienced instructors
Free pick-up and drop-off from and to your convenient location throughout Vancouver area
Single lessons and customizable packages
Low rates, affordably cheap driving lessons and special discounts
Detailed evaluation of your driving skills at the end of each session

East Vancouver Driving School Policies

Students must provide a valid BC Driver’s License or a valid foreign Driver’s License before the beginning of the lesson. Driver’s license must be carried by the student at all time during the driving training.
In-car driving lessons are provided at a fixed rate of 45CAD per hour. Lessons include pick up, drop off, driving training and student evaluation/s.
The hourly fee includes driving training, car usage, gas, insurance and taxes. There are no additional charges to the student.
Fees are paid before the beginning or at the end of each lesson.
Driving training will be provided only in dual control equipped vehicles.
Each driving lesson consists in 50-55 min of driving plus 5-10 min of student evaluation/s and administrative procedures.
An additional passenger is allowed to assist the driving lesson only with the accord of both the instructor and the student.
For prepaid driving lessons, we offer a full refund for a lesson that has been cancelled 48 hours prior the scheduled time.
There is no refund for a driving lesson that has taken place.
In order to cancel an ICBC road test appointment booked by East Vancouver Driving School on behalf of the student, we require at least 72 hours notice in advance. There is a 25$ fee to the student who failed to give us sufficient time notice.

Teaching strategies

East Vancouver Driving School implemented driving training strategies for beginners, intermediate and advanced drivers. For students with no driving experience, driving lessons start in a quiet, low traffic neighborhood. The student will start driving training with developing basic vehicle control skills, starting and stopping, backing up and parking. Your driving instructor will explain and, if necessary, demonstrate how to perform each maneuver. We use graphic diagrams in order to trigger the student’s visual memory on how to perform a driving maneuver.

During the driving lesson, driving instructor will asses the student on how he/she is performing maneuvers and will point on areas of improvement.

As the student develops his/her driving skills, driving lessons are being conducted on roads with low and moderate traffic. Now your driver training includes turning right and left, right of way at the intersection, stop signs and traffic lights. At this stage, your driving education is evolving around developing of defensive driving habits and abilities to drive safe in different traffic situations.

The last stage of the training consists in entering/driving/exiting highways, complex intersection passing and complex hazard recognition techniques. The student is assessed at all levels regarding procedure, safety and defensiveness of his/her driving.

For intermediate and advanced drivers, before starting driving training, our driving instructor will inquire about the main purpose of driver training and will conduct a general evaluation at the beginning of the first lesson. Depending on the objective, driver training will be focused on areas that need to be improved.

For new BC drivers with driving experience outside of Canada, our driving school provides a teaching program that allows them to adjust quickly their current driving skills to British Columbia’s driving requirements. Driving lessons will concentrate on developing see-think-do skills as well as following the main patterns of a defensive driving. This will help the new driver to show a high level of preparation and pass the ICBC road test.

9 tips for passing your ICBC road test

1. Watch your speed

city / freeways
school zones / playgrounds
construction zones
accelerating lane on a freeway

2. Keep your distance

stopping distance
following distance (2 sec city, 3 sec freeway, increase in poor weather conditions)
eye-lead distance (12-15 sec)

3. Come to a complete stop

before stop sign
before traffic light
before crosswalk (if occupied)

4. Scan intersections carefully (left, center, right, left)

before entering the intersection in all cases (green/red light, stop sign, uncontrolled intersection)

5. Check your mirrors

before pulling out/over to the curb
before turning right/left
before changing lanes
every 5-8 sec of driving

6. Shoulder check

before pulling out/over to the curb
before turning right / left / u-turn
before changing lanes

7. 360 º check

always before backing up
backing for reverse stall parking, parallel parking, 2 point turn, 3 point turn

8. Make clean turns

positioning for right turn
positioning for left turn
positioning for U-turn

9. Practice, practice, practice

**Whether you are a new driver or experienced driver looking to refresh your skills, East Vancouver Driving School will help you to gain the ability of driving safely and with confidence.**

If you feel like you are never going to drive and frustration is the feeling that overwhelms you whenever you sit behind the steering wheel, you should meet our proffessional instructors.