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West Coast Driver Training & Education Inc. is an ICBC licensed Driving School based in Duncan, British Columbia and in and Saanich, B.C.. We are currently licensed by ICBC to provide instruction in B.C. Drivers’ License Classes 2,3,4,5 and 7. We are also licensed by ICBC to teach Air Brake Instruction Courses. and to certify clients on the Air Brake Pre Trip portion of the Air Brake Endorsement.

Due to increased demand, West Coast Driver Training will be offering two Air Brakes Courses in Nanaimo during December 2024. The first will be held on 7-8 December 2024. and the second on 14-15 December 2024. Our next Air Brakes Course after that will be in Nanaimo in January 2025.

We do business under the name West Coast Driver Training and we service Duncan, the Cowichan Valley,  Victoria, Nanaimo and, on special request, Courtenay. Lorne Bunyan, who used to own and operate Cornerstone Driving School on Salt Spring Island, now teaches for West Coast Driver Training on Salt Spring Island.

The Owner and Chief Instructor at West Coast Driver Training is Mark Anderson. He can be contacted by phone or text at 250-732-8093 or by email at mark@westcoastdrivertraining.com

Mark has decades of professional driving experience operating tractor trailers, tour buses, transit buses and automobiles. After retiring from BC Transit in Victoria he taught for Young Drivers of Canada in Nanaimo and Duncan for 18 months before starting West Coast Driver Training & Education Inc. He is licensed by ICBC to teach Class 1 MELT, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4 Restricted and Class 4 Unrestricted, Class 5, Class 7, Air Brakes and GLP.

We are currently offering Class 2, Class 3, Class 4 Restricted, Class 4 Unrestricted, Class 5 and Class 7 instruction in Duncan and the Cowichan Valley, Ladysmith, Nanaimo, Victoria and Salt Spring Island.

As far as we know, West Coast Driver Training is the only Driving School on Vancouver Island currently offering training in Class 4 Unrestricted.

We also offer Air Brakes Courses.

Due to increased demand, West Coast Driver Training will be offering two Air Brakes Courses in Nanaimo during December 2024. The first will be held on 7-8 December 2024. and the second on 14-15 December 2024. Our next Air Brakes Course after that will be in Nanaimo in January 2025.

Erica Winter, M.Ed., is our Office Manager and Director of Education.

She will be handling all our office administration, including lesson scheduling, as well as developing our proposed Graduated Licensing Program classroom course for new drivers and our proposed Driving Instructor Training Course, both of which we hope to have ready for approval by ICBC later this year.

Erica can be contacted by email at erica@westcoastdrivertraining.com or by phone/text at (250)709-3910.

Our Training Vehicles

We offer Class 3 Automatic, Class 4 Unrestricted, Class 4 Restricted, Class 5 and Class 7 training with our 2018 Toyota Corolla our 2020 Toyota Prius Prime, and our 2021 Toyota Corolla Hybrid. With the gas powered 2018 Toyota Corolla, 2021 Toyota Corolla Hybrid and hybrid/electric 2020 Toyota Prius Prime we can offer our students training on all three leading technologies: gas, hybrid and electric. We offer Class 3 Automatic on our 2016 Mack Pinnacle. We also offer Class 4 Unrestricted lessons on our Ford E450 20 seat bus.

For Class 4 Unrestricted lessons we use a Ford E450 20 seat bus (originally BC Transit bus No. 2189).

We have recently acquired a 2016 Mack Pinnacle for teaching Class 3 automatic. This 2016 Mack Pinnacle is now ready for Class 3 automatic lessons.

We also have a Mack Vision day cab equipped with a 13 speed Eaton Fuller manual transmission. We are currently using this truck for Air Brake Courses. We are not currently offering Class 1 instruction since potential clients are having trouble affording the cost of the MELT program required by ICBC since October 2021. We suggest that those wanting Class 1 training contact CSTT Driving School in North Saanich.

Here are some links to Frequently Asked Questions:

 B.C. Drivers License Written Tests

Here are links to some practice tests for B.C. Drivers Licenses knowledge tests.

• ICBC Practice Tests – includes Knowledge Test and Sign Test
• Richmond Public Library – This site has sample practice tests for all B.C. Drivers License Classes
• Valley Driving School (Abbotsford) – (Class 1,2,3,4 and Air Brakes)

B.C. Motor Vehicle Act

• B.C. Motor Vehicle Act, RSBC 1996, Chapter 318

ICBC

• Fines & Points For Traffic Offences In B.C.
• Graduated Licensing Program
• Drivers License Classes & Types
• New Drivers
• Driver Licensing Offices – Locations
• Booking A Road Test Online
• Driving Guides -Online Downloads 

 

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