Category: cooperative driving

Is there value in “buses only” lanes?

I’m a big supporter of my community and saving our environment. I will walk or ride my bike when I can and I also plan my trips so I can avoid wasting fuel, time and money. I look for ways to do that every day. However, when I see a waste that also affects many…



We all need your help

Let’s face it; we all need help every now and then. For some people, they know this but fail to ask others to help them. Is it pride? Is it laziness? Is it because they don’t fell there’s anyone capable enough to help them? Who knows, but if they need the help, why don’t they…




Some of you may hazard to guess

When I’m teaching my students how to drive at Young Drivers of Canada I’ll ask them to list the different ways they can communicate to other road users while driving. Most answers they give me include their signals, brake lights, head lights and of course the horn. Some of them are pretty knowledgeable and let…




The best way to use high beam headlights…

I enjoy teaching and spending time with people. It’s been fun teaching my own son how to drive and recently he had a chance to drive on a dark rural road at night. I know many people would refuse that type of drive, but he actually asked to drive as we were heading off to…



Good deeds never go unnoticed

I was always raised in such a way as to help others in need. I’ve been raising my kids to have the same beliefs. I firmly believe that if we help others, they’ll help others and the chain continues. It may not always continue, but I am an optimist and do believe some people continue…



It’s time to make a change

We can change our mind, change our looks and even change jobs, but what seems to be a problem with many people is learning how to change lanes. What seems to be a simple driving action seems to be giving many drivers grief of many years. How confident are you with changing lanes? One of…



Define “professional driver”

I think we’ve all done things that were a little risky throughout our lives. Sometimes we do them without much thought. Hindsight is great though because after doing what was essentially wrong and/or dangerous, we realized it was something we shouldn’t have done to begin with. What would possess us to do things like this,…



Assuming you assume…

We tend to take some things for granted throughout our lives. We assume the weather will always be nice when we take a vacation, we assume people will like us for who we are and we assume we’ll never get hurt while goofing off with our friends or family. We even take this belief of…