$380 for six hours
Background for Customers
1) Please take your entry seriously. When you claim a time slot and then cancel at the last minute, you remove two things: someone else's chance to drive and a revenue source for this business. Your name in this schedule is an obligation. If a real conflict arises, no problem; just let me know beforehand, and that's fine.
2) I rely heavily on the scheduling system and my website. From 8 to 5, I'm working in another industry and typically don't take calls. Emails work best with me (danvieths@gmail.com) . . . I can always go back to them when I get a chance. Texts are good too (651-315-nine zero four nine). This self-serve system works well if it's not abused. Please limit your initial time slot claims to three. After three we'll reassess if needed. Note also that once in a great while, I am out of town for my day job. This is very rare, but it can happen. If it does, we'll work around it.
3) Thursday evenings are my nights off. This is why the schedule is blank on Thursdays.
4) Each lesson is two hours. The fifteen minutes between lessons is for me to get to the next customer. Unlike many driver education schools, I do not use your lesson to shuttle the previous student back home. Your lesson is your lesson. If your address is beyond my normal 'zone', it may take more than 15 minutes to get there.
5) The calendar functions best when accessed from a computer.
7) The state says you should space the lessons out among three to six months. But if you want to get the six hours done in a hurry, I can do that too.
8) Please use a logical phone number when registering, not dad's office number or the number at the cabin. I need to be able to reach the student or parent easily if necessary. Please include your city.
Steps to Sign Up
1) Create a customer account by clicking on the Sign In link at upper right in the calendar below.
2) Select New User, and Create Account. Complete the requested fields in the popup (name, address, city, etc.). I need the student's name, not the parent or guardian. The student I'm working with - insert that name, please. All of this is visible only to me as the Admin.
3) Add or delete lessons as you desire. Time slots in red are already reserved, white or gray slots are open. Each lesson is two hours., but once in a while I will do a one-hour lesson for special circumstances.
4) When you create an account, claim a time slot, or cancel a lesson, I get an email notification. I will email you the day before we drive, to just confirm I see you in the schedule.
Other Tips and Suggestions
1) Be alert, hydrated, and fed for your lesson. If you played video games until 4 AM that day, you're shorting yourself and creating additional troublesome variables. If 8 AM on Saturday is rough for you, then sign up for a later time slot . . . right? Make sense?
2) Wear proper clothing. Sneakers, not sandals. No real loose clothing. Bring a jacket in the winter.
3) Bring your permit. I shouldn't have to ask if you have your permit but in fact, I do.
4) Try to have at least four to ten hours of practice before starting with me. Start in a parking lot with a parent or spouse and gradually work up from there on quiet roads. If you get in my car and ask which pedal is the gas, you're wasting your money on me. You should already have the basics down, such as the need to press the brake pedal before taking it out of Park.
5) On a right turn on red, you still must stop first, before turning. This is such a common issue that it bears repeating here.
1) Please take your entry seriously. When you claim a time slot and then cancel at the last minute, you remove two things: someone else's chance to drive and a revenue source for this business. Your name in this schedule is an obligation. If a real conflict arises, no problem; just let me know beforehand, and that's fine.
2) I rely heavily on the scheduling system and my website. From 8 to 5, I'm working in another industry and typically don't take calls. Emails work best with me (danvieths@gmail.com) . . . I can always go back to them when I get a chance. Texts are good too (651-315-nine zero four nine). This self-serve system works well if it's not abused. Please limit your initial time slot claims to three. After three we'll reassess if needed. Note also that once in a great while, I am out of town for my day job. This is very rare, but it can happen. If it does, we'll work around it.
3) Thursday evenings are my nights off. This is why the schedule is blank on Thursdays.
4) Each lesson is two hours. The fifteen minutes between lessons is for me to get to the next customer. Unlike many driver education schools, I do not use your lesson to shuttle the previous student back home. Your lesson is your lesson. If your address is beyond my normal 'zone', it may take more than 15 minutes to get there.
5) The calendar functions best when accessed from a computer.
7) The state says you should space the lessons out among three to six months. But if you want to get the six hours done in a hurry, I can do that too.
8) Please use a logical phone number when registering, not dad's office number or the number at the cabin. I need to be able to reach the student or parent easily if necessary. Please include your city.
Steps to Sign Up
1) Create a customer account by clicking on the Sign In link at upper right in the calendar below.
2) Select New User, and Create Account. Complete the requested fields in the popup (name, address, city, etc.). I need the student's name, not the parent or guardian. The student I'm working with - insert that name, please. All of this is visible only to me as the Admin.
3) Add or delete lessons as you desire. Time slots in red are already reserved, white or gray slots are open. Each lesson is two hours., but once in a while I will do a one-hour lesson for special circumstances.
4) When you create an account, claim a time slot, or cancel a lesson, I get an email notification. I will email you the day before we drive, to just confirm I see you in the schedule.
Other Tips and Suggestions
1) Be alert, hydrated, and fed for your lesson. If you played video games until 4 AM that day, you're shorting yourself and creating additional troublesome variables. If 8 AM on Saturday is rough for you, then sign up for a later time slot . . . right? Make sense?
2) Wear proper clothing. Sneakers, not sandals. No real loose clothing. Bring a jacket in the winter.
3) Bring your permit. I shouldn't have to ask if you have your permit but in fact, I do.
4) Try to have at least four to ten hours of practice before starting with me. Start in a parking lot with a parent or spouse and gradually work up from there on quiet roads. If you get in my car and ask which pedal is the gas, you're wasting your money on me. You should already have the basics down, such as the need to press the brake pedal before taking it out of Park.
5) On a right turn on red, you still must stop first, before turning. This is such a common issue that it bears repeating here.
STOP - read this before signing up:
Go to Google Maps and get the distance from my operation base area (1579 Cliff Rd., Eagan, MN 55122) to your pickup location. If you're over 11 miles from my base, contact me, as my standard rate does not apply* for that distance.
*An option is to meet me each time at a location between us. I use the Apple Valley water park, Burnsville High School, the NAPA store parking lot in Burnsville, and the strip mall lot at Dodd/62, among others. This type of workaround is perfect, as opposed to driving 20 or 30 miles to your address, which puts a damper on things.
Go to Google Maps and get the distance from my operation base area (1579 Cliff Rd., Eagan, MN 55122) to your pickup location. If you're over 11 miles from my base, contact me, as my standard rate does not apply* for that distance.
*An option is to meet me each time at a location between us. I use the Apple Valley water park, Burnsville High School, the NAPA store parking lot in Burnsville, and the strip mall lot at Dodd/62, among others. This type of workaround is perfect, as opposed to driving 20 or 30 miles to your address, which puts a damper on things.
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White/Gray = available
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