1. General Conditions

Your instructor is bound by a professional code of conduct. Your instructor will be courteous, polite, tidy and punctual. He will also behave in a professional and ethical manner at all times. Your instructor’s vehicle will be well maintained, clean and tidy. All vehicles used by the instructors are fitted with dual-controls as part of their standard equipment. The vehicle of course is fully insured for driving tuition. Your instructor will not smoke in the vehicle while giving tuition, nor will they use your lesson time for any other form of business, personal or otherwise.

At Highway to L Driving School we do lessons from 1 up to 4 hours in order to ensure that our pupils get the maximum benefit from our expert instructors.

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2. Qualifications

Your Instructor is ADI qualified and fully licensed by the Road Safety Authority (RSA) to give driving tuition.

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3. Driving Licence

The learner must hold a current, valid driving license (full or learner permit), which must be produced on or in advance of their first lesson. If the lesson is an ‘off road and theory lesson’ it is not necessary to produce a license but any driving must be conducted within the confines of our off road facility.

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4. Payments

The deposit payment must be made at the time of booking in order to secure the instructor and the vehicle for the duration of the agreed lesson/s. At this point, a binding agreement is made between the student (or the payer in case someone else is paying for the lesson on behalf of the student) and the Highway to L Driving School. 
All lessons must be paid in full at a minimum of 7 days prior to the agreed date. If the payment is not received and confirmed by then, any lessons that were booked, are canceled. Please note that all payments are non-refundable. This does not in any way affect your statutory rights to be provided with the goods and services you have bought.

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5. Lesson Postponement

Provided notice is given to the school or to your instructor no later than 7 days in advance of the lesson, no penalty will apply. Your instructor reserves the right to postpone lessons if he or she feels the weather or road conditions are unsuitable or dangerous. The instructor cannot be held responsible for any costs incurred as a result of him or her having to postpone any lessons, for whatever reason.

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6. The Driving Test

a) Bookings
Driving test bookings always take priority over other lessons. Therefore, your lesson may be postponed to allow for someone else’s driving test and vice-versa. Changes to lesson bookings as a result of this will be notified immediately. Test appointments must be notified to your instructor as soon as they are known; otherwise he cannot guarantee to provide a vehicle for your test.

b) Use of the Vehicle
In the interest of customer and public safety your instructor reserves the right to withhold the use of a vehicle for the test if, in their opinion, your driving is actually or potentially dangerous.

c) Test Cancellation
Ten clear days’ notice of cancellation or postponement is required by the RSA. Failure to provide the required notice will result in the loss of your test fee. The Highway to L Driving School cannot be held responsible for any postponement or cancellation by the RSA.

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7. GDPR

Highway to L Driving School are bound by The 2018 GDPR act, all information can be found on below website
www.dataprotection.ie  read more…

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8. Punctuality

In their own interests learners are advised to be punctual for their lesson appointments. All such appointments should be recorded (and checked where possible by their instructor) to ensure that mistakes are avoided. The instructor would normally wait a maximum of 20 minutes before the lesson would be abandoned and the lesson fee forfeited. A reciprocal waiting time may become necessary if the instructor is delayed due to unforeseen circumstances. Any lesson time lost as a result of this would be made up by the instructor either at the end of the normal lesson time if possible or at a later date.

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9. Learner Comfort and Safety

In the interest of comfort and safety learners are advised to wear suitable footwear and clothing which does not restrict movement. Learners must also take note of any medication they are taking that may affect their ability to drive safely and advise their instructor accordingly before taking any lesson booked.​

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10. Car Damage and Speeding Tickets

Any preventable damage, such as hitting the curb and scratching an alloy or damaging a tire, is to be compensated by the student. Any speeding violations are assigned to the driver, therefore, while the student is driving, any speeding violations and tickets are assigned to the learner's permit of the student.

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11. Cancellation due to Covid-19

The cancellation fee charged as per the cancellation policy can be waived in the case of COVID-19. To avail of this waiver, the student is to provide a screenshot of the text message sent by HSE, confirming a positive COVID-19 test result, which includes their name, age, and the test date. In the case of antigen testing, the student is to provide a photo of the positive antigen test result alongside their learner's permit by COB on the day of cancellation. 

 

12. Pricing

Package prices only apply for lessons booked with a minimum of 2-hour duration. If doing 1-hour lessons, no package price discounts apply, regardless of the number of individual lessons booked.

 

13. Right to Individual Lessons

We guarantee high-quality lessons by treating every student as an individual lesson. Therefore, there can not be 2 students in the car at any given time.