Our terms and conditions
BY BOOKING OR TAKING DRIVING LESSONS WITH GO 4 IT DRIVING SCHOOL, YOU/PARENT OR GUARDIAN AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
Licence & Fitness to Drive:
You, “The Pupil”, agree that you are duly licensed to drive our or your vehicle and your driving licence must be produced on your first appointment.
If you hold an EU, EEA or International driving licence, this must be produced on your first appointment.
You must wear glasses or contact lenses (as prescribed) every time you drive if you need them to meet the ‘standards of vision for driving’.
You must notify your instructor of any changes to your ability or entitlement to have driving lessons, for example if your licence has been revoked or for medical reasons.
If upon arrival for your lesson, your instructor deems that you are unfit to undertake that the booked lesson and / or practical test due to your eye sight or through misuse of drink or drugs, then the driving instructor has the right to cancel the lesson and you will be liable for the payment in full.
Driving Lessons:
All driving lessons and block bookings MUST be paid in FULL. Cash at the start of the driving lesson or bank transfer IN ADVANCE. LATE PAYMENT FOR ANY REASON WILL BE CHARGED AT THE SUNDAY RATE, currently £65 per hour.
If a lesson needs to be cancelled for any reason - including illness, a MINIMUM of 48 hours notice is required for 1, 1.5 & 2 hour lessons. Longer lessons require a MINIMUM of four days notice. If you fail to notify your driving instructor within the required timescale, the cancelled lesson will be charged in full.
Your driving instructor will do everything possible to ensure that your lesson starts and finishes on time, but reserves the right to cancel, postpone or change lesson lengths and times under certain circumstances (e.g. heavy traffic, dangerous weather conditions).
GO 4 IT Driving School will provide a link for you "The Pupil" to download a student record app. This app will contain the dates and times of your booked and forward booked lesson´s. It is the Pupils responsibility to be fully aware of the date and time of each driving lesson and to be ready to start on time.
Your Driving Instructor will text you upon arrival for each lesson. Your Driving Instructor will wait for 10 minutes, however if you "The Pupil" have not arrived for your lesson by this point then your Driving Instructor will leave and the lesson will be charged in full.
The start and finish locations are confirmed at the time of booking each lesson. If these locations change at short notice, the lesson will still be charged at full rate but could result in a shortened lesson time due to travel time for other appointments.
Driving Lessons are on a per 55 minute basis.
In the event of lesson changes by your driving instructor, lesson fees paid in advance, or appropriate proportion thereof, will be carried forward to the next lesson with no loss to the pupil.
Driving Lesson fee´s are subject to change. The per hour cost on your first driving lesson is not an "agreed fee" for the duration of your course. Every effort will be made to make all driving lessons as time and cost effective as possible.
10 hour Block Booking payments MUST be used within a 16 week period.
The Driving Test:
Currently GO 4 IT Driving School ONLY USE THE READING DRIVING TEST CENTRE. MONDAY TO FRIDAY TESTS ARE CHARGED AT THE STANDARD RATE AND WEEKEND TESTS AT THE WEEKEND RATE. The fee payable to GO 4 IT Driving School on the day of your practical test is £115. Other test centres within a 1 hour commute of Reading will be considered but will incur a MINIMUM test day charge of £300. The test day fee MUST be paid at least 24 hours before the test by bank transfer.
Test Preparation lessons Monday to Friday at Basingstoke and Farnborough test centres will require 3 hour lessons and are charged at £50 per hour. This rate applies to any test centre outside of Reading. Weekend Lessons outside of the Reading area will cost the weekend rate plus an additional £5 per hour.
Before booking your driving test, you must check with your driving instructor that you are "Test ready" and both they and the car are available.
Your driving instructor will make every effort to ensure that the vehicle supplied for test will be fully road worthy and complies with all legal requirements at the start of the test. However, the driving instructor cannot be held responsible for any vehicle failure which may occur before or during the test and is not liable for any consequential loss.
A £100 refundable deposit must be paid along with the test day fee 24 hours in advance of the driving test. This is to cover any scratches or damage to the car (especially Tyres or Alloy wheels). The examiner will not use the brakes to prevent wheel damage, punctures, scratching the paint work from trees or bushes etc. So long as the car has no damage after the test the £100 will be immediately refunded, It will not be refunded if damage has occurred during the driving test.
Your driving instructor cannot be held responsible for test appointments cancelled by the Driving & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) for any reason whatsoever. The time the car is booked out for MUST still be paid in FULL.
Please Note: Your driving instructor reserves the right to refuse the use of the vehicle for the practical driving test, if in the instructors professional opinion, the pupil has not reached the required standard of competence to take full responsibility for the safety of the vehicle and other road users.
