The Judge; AN L OF A BAD DEAL.(Features)

From: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) | Date: January 30, 2000| Author: Sunday | Copyright information

PASSING your driving test can be a slog - but training to be a driving instructor is worse.

Some readers learned this when they set off on the long road and hit problems that left them out of pocket.

It sounded a good deal - pay over pounds 1000 to be trained as an instructor. But a number of readers found there was a huge hazard further down the road.

If they pulled out of the contract, through unexpected circumstances, they faced losing all their...

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