A Crucial Reminder: ALWAYS HAVE YOUR PERMITS WITH YOU WHILE DRIVING!

Whether your taking your behind the wheel lesson, or practicing with someone 25 years or older sitting beside you, please, always remember to have your Learner's Permit with you at all times! Recently, several of our students could not take their lessons because they did not have their permits as they were in the other parent's car and both car and parent were out of reach.

Not only does it waste your time, but it also wastes The Driver Guy's time, and, per our policy, we will have to charge you $49 for a one hour lesson that you couldn't take.

California Law requires all driving students, whether teen or adult, to have their permits with them when they are behind the wheel of a car. Failure to do so, and getting caught, should a police officer pull you over for some reason, could have serious setbacks to your progress in the form of fines and delay your goal of getting your provisional permit should the DMV decide to suspend your driving privileges for failure to have a learners permit with you when you are behind the wheel.

The learner's permit is like a limited license to drive (with a licensed adult 25 years or older sitting in the passenger seat with you) and should be treated as such.

It's important to develop good driving habits early--including remembering to have permits, licenses, whatever form of license, whether it's temporary or permanent, on your person at all times. They will save you much frustration throughout your driving life.

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Buzz Off! Say San Diego Freeway Drivers!

According to this article in the San Diego Union Tribune, Caltrans has struck a nerve with freeway drivers over an electronic sign reminding drivers to share the road with motorcycles. It seems as if, uniformly, drivers are for the most part exasperated with motorcycle riders and their seemingly flouting the law with impunity as they watch them zip along the freeways, probably going over the speed limit, splitting the lane, riding up beside them noisily, exhaust enveloping their car. And now the county is asking its drivers to look out for them?!

To some people, especially novice drivers, hearing a motorcycle roaring up beside them can be extremely unnerving. Although the California Vehicle Code says nothing overtly regarding the legalities of lane splitting, if an officer spots a motorcyclist splitting the lane in what he/she considers to be a safety hazard, the officer can issue a citation. So, despite the perception, motorcyclists are not always given free passes.

The best rule of thumb to use in any driving situation, is to always assume that there are unseen dangers lurking on the roadway and one should always be on the alert regardless of where one is. After all, that is the central tenet of defensive driving.

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