Driving lessons
Times, bookings, payments and certified driving lessons: here you'll find everything you need to know about the practical training.
🕐 Times and duration
Driving lessons for cars, motorcycles, and mopeds typically last one hour . Subject to availability, they are held at the following times:
- 08:30 – 23:00 Monday to Friday
- 08:30 – 12:30 Saturday
Evening hours (after 8:00 PM) allow us to run the night driving lessons in the months when it gets dark late.
📅 How to book
You can book your driving lesson in three ways:
- Contact our officeIn person, by phone, or via WhatsApp.
- Directly with the instructorAt the end of the driving lesson.
- Independently from the Online AgendaAccessible via the student portal.
We'll let you know. At 7:00 PM the day before, you'll automatically receive a text message reminding you of your driving time.
Move or cancel a driving lesson
To allow us to organise our days, driving lessons can be rescheduled or cancelled up to 8:00 PM the day before the lesson.
Lessons cancelled after this time, or missed without notice, are charged at €25.00 per hour. It is not a penalty for its own sake: that hour stays blocked in the instructor's diary and cannot be given to another student.
💶 Payments
- Lessons are paid for at the end of each driving lesson, or every 2 hours of driving.
- Refresher driving lessons (for those who already have a licence) are paid for individually at the end of the lesson.
- Before the driving test, all driving lessons taken must be paid for and the exam fee must be paid.
Everything under control from the student portal. You can check your payment status at any time and make payments directly online, without visiting the office.
In case of irregular payments, the instructors suspend the lessons.
📋 Certified driving lessons for the category B licence
The Ministerial Decree of 20.04.2012 , in reference to art. 122 paragraph 5-bis of the Highway Code , makes certain driving exercises at a driving school mandatory before being able to book the practical test for a category B license.
- 🌙 Module A · 2 hours Driving in night vision conditions Driving on narrow and wide urban streets, with and without vehicles parked on the sides, at intersections regulated by vertical signs and traffic lights.
- 🛣️ Module B · 2 hours Driving on urban main roads or secondary extra-urban roads Driving on urban main roads or secondary extra-urban roads, using the vehicle and engine at maximum torque, consuming and polluting as little as possible.
- 🚀 Module C · 2 hours Driving on motorways or main extra-urban roads Driving on motorways, main or secondary extra-urban roads, exceeding a speed of 50 km/h, using 5th gear and adjusting the gears to the speed.
Total: 6 certified hours
⚠️ It's important to know that…
The introduction of this rule has convinced many that six hours are enough to learn to drive and pass the practical exam. Unfortunately, things aren't that simple.
The compulsory driving lessons, in fact, don't cover some fundamental aspects of training. First and foremost: vehicle familiarity and the initial approach to driving for those starting from scratch. For that alone, an hour is often not enough.
Let's look at how the 6 hours are distributed
- 4 hours take place outside the city, on the motorway or main extra-urban roadsThat is, outside the areas where the driving test will be held and which require a certain familiarity with the vehicle
- The remaining 2 hours are at nightThey can be done in the exam area, but they are unlikely to be enough to learn how to manage traffic, intersections, and unexpected city events.
Then there's a practical aspect: in the spring and summer, nighttime drives require a bit of sacrifice from everyone, because they have to be done at unusual times, after dinner.
Why are they called "certified"?
Rather than being mandatory, these lessons should be called " certified ": at the end of each one, the instructor and student sign a certificate that reports their names, date, time, vehicle number plate and the module completed (A, B or C).
Signing means taking on a responsibility.
By signing, the student, along with the instructor, assumes the criminal liability provided by law in the event of false certifications. It is therefore important to know what you are signing and that the form really matches the lesson actually driven: a false certification can lead to the revocation of the licence if it comes to light during a check by the police or by the Motor Vehicle Department (Motorizzazione).
How we work
We really do give all the certified driving lessons, every one of them, all year round: extra-urban roads to get used to higher speeds, night lessons after dinner in the summer months. Every certification you sign corresponds to an hour you have actually spent at the wheel.
Our advice, whichever driving school you choose: before signing, always read what the form says and check that the date, time and type of route match the lesson you have just had. It's your protection.
🚙 Certified driving lessons for Accompanied Driving
For Accompanied Driving , the training path is broader and divided into five modules.
- 🔑 Module A · 1 hour Use of the vehicle Starting, using the clutch, using the steering wheel, braking, engaging and disengaging gears, reversing.
- 🚦 Module B · 3 hours Traffic behavior Position on the road, right and left turns, driving on narrow roads, starting uphill with and without the handbrake, behaviour at intersections, checking for right of way, assessing the safety distance, parking and U-turns.
- 🌙 Module C · 2 hours Driving in night vision conditions Driving on narrow and wide urban streets, with and without vehicles parked on the sides, at intersections regulated by vertical signs and traffic lights.
- 🛣️ Module D · 2 hours Driving on extra-urban roads Driving on main roads or secondary extra-urban roads at speeds exceeding 50 km/h, engaging 5th gear and adjusting the gears to the speed, using the vehicle and engine at maximum torque.
- 🚀 Module E · 2 hours Driving on motorways or extra-urban roads Entering the acceleration lane, entering, driving in the lane, overtaking at least once in the passing lane, driving in the deceleration lane, and exiting.
Total: 10 certified hours
Do you have questions about the driving lessons?
Stop by the driving school or call our office: we'll explain how to schedule lessons at a time that's most convenient for you.