4x4 Training UK-wide - Find out how to drive a 4x4 vehicle safely - and enjoy it!
We train individuals to drive 4x4's in the kind of terrain they are designed for - the Lake District fells, the hills and moors of Scotland or the valleys of South Wales. We only train on private land, so we avoid damaging the environment, you can explore exactly how your Land Rover or 4x4 will react to different situations. You can learn new techniques, and you'll be amazed at what 2.5 tonnes of car can deal with! Cliffs, rocky slopes, water traverses and sliding through mud are all part of the experience. We also offer professional training to Health and Safety compliant standards for company drivers who need their 4x4's for work alongside our LANTRA and NPTC ATV and Quad Bike Training.
Off Road 4x4 Driving Experiences and Training
Beyond 4x4 - Land Rover Days and Pofessional Qualifications
This is a feed from our main site - www.beyond4x4.co.uk - the last 5 posts only, but something might pique your fancy - otherwise just look at the site itself!
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...apart from throwing Landrovers off cliffs!
Commercial 4x4 Users
Reduce costs & liabilities
4x4s are useful tools for commercial operators - they allow you the advantage that you can get places other companies can't.Running businesses is all about that kind of competetive advantage, which is why we run specific training courses for commercial 4x4 owners.
Geared towards reducing costs and improving efficiency, all of our courses are intended to save you more money than they cost - and if you give us a chance we can help make your 4x4 fleet more profitable and more effective.
LANTRA, DSA and SAFED training for Commercial 4x4 users.
We've recently been getting worried HR and Fleet personell phoning us about the new Corporate Manslaughter legislation so we've written a simple guide:
Corporate Manslaughter and Fleet Driver Training.
Bring your own 4x4.
Find out exactly what it's capable of!
Unlike many recreational off road centres, you can bring your off roader to us to find out what it is capable of.Up to 3 owners will take their vehicles over our course, exploring the techniques necessary to keep safe and reduce environmental damage, while using the rugged capabilities of your 4x4 to the full.
Thoroughly enjoyable, your day's training will cover vehicle training, techniques and terrain reading. At the end of the day you'll be a LANTRA 4x4 driver - with a certificate and everything!
Drive your own 4x4 off road in the Lakes.
Defender VS Disco 3 (LR3 for the Yanks!)
Do we go with the gadgets, or should we keep the faith old school?
What do you do?
Do you find the latest most cutting edge technology, or do you go with something that you can fix with a socket set and a lump hammer?
As a professional 4x4 for work, which do you go for?
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Aladdins-Cave says:
IH AB 120 4x4 if you can find one for me. Ha ha. Love this lens.
Gave me a few ideas for my new one here in Australia. I bet some of your followers
would be interested in MY BOOK as well. Come and check it out.
Keep up the good work. Cheers from Downunder Gus
Posted September 16, 2009
Land Rover Discovery 3 (LR3 - all the toys you'd ever need)?
Land Rover 4x4 Links
Off Road Sites
- Off Road 4x4 Driving Reviews and Info
- A useful resource for 4x4 owners looking for insurance, tyres, parts and information.
- Lake District 4x4 Training and Off Road Driving Days
- 4x4 Training and Off Road Driving Days in the Lake District Cumbria.
- Off Road Training
- Training to drive a 4x4 off road.
- Driver Training Courses
- Loads of information about professional and vocational driver training, including 4x4 and LANTRA courses.
- Quad Treks in the Lake District
- Holmescales Activity Centre overlooking the Lake District has 300 acres of Cumbrian fells and forest to explore in Land Rovers or on Quad Bikes - Pure Exhileration!!!
- 4x4 Training Courses
- Off-Road Training Courses for professional 4x4 drivers.
- Quality Event Products - Corporate Activity Equipment & Vehicle Hire
- Based in Cumbria, but covering Lancashire, Yorkshire and the Borders - Quality Event Products provide some of the strangest, most innovative and best quality event equipment in the UK. Reverse steer 4x4's, Powerturn Buggies, the unique Video Navigation - a remote camera version of Blindfold Driving not available anywhere else and of course the classic clay shoot traps & guns.
All of the equipment can be hired fully staffed with some of the best qualified and most client friendly instructors you'll come across. - Protec Training - 4x4 and Winch Training Scotland
- Based in Ayrshire, Protec Training provide a complete service for all off-roaders, from 4x4 training, through winching and recovery to first aid and expedition training.
Ken Stewart is one of Britain's most experienced trainers, with both military and police experience. He is a qualified Fleet DSA ADI and LANTRA training provider with a host of experience and skills.
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Training to be a 4x4 Instructor
It's a great job, but getting there is hard!
Recent changes to legislation mean that many experienced off-road instructors aren't strictly legal at the moment and the main players in the industry know it and are working on it.
Until this is sorted though, it may be out of reach of all but a few well qualified professionals.
Legally, you need to be a DSA Approved Driving Instructor (you've seen the ads - have a look at The Undercover ADI's Driving Instructor Training Advice for more info on whether it's worth it).
Then you'll need to prove that you've been driving 4x4's for 5 years or more, you'll need a First Aid qualification and a H&S qualification geared toward risk assessment and management.
Then you'll need to qualify as a professional off-road driver (off-road training info).
Then you may need to do a 5 day instructional techniques course and a 2 day technical standards verification course.
You'll then need to pay to register, and pay again to become a training provider.
Then you'll need a site to hire (or have your own assessed and approved - more cost).
For more info on this process - have a look at our article on training to be a 4x4 instructor.
If you want to do it - have a look at:
Driving Instructor Training
LANTRA 4x4 Training
LANTRA Awards Instructor Application Details.
Good luck!
Off Road 4x4 Driving News
- Traxxas Slash - Race Tested
- A production version of the Traxxas Slash 4x4 came into the office and I ripped right into the box. I put the batterie on charge and checked out the truck. ...
- Supermarket and local 4x4 response group came to the rescue
- Beds Police were alerted to the incident at about 2am and the Beds, Herts and Cambs Land Rover Club, which has a special 4x4 response team, was called out ...
- Czech military to get 90 Iveco armored vehicles
- The ministry says the 90 Iveco M65E 19 WM 4x4 vehicles will be delivered between 2010-2013 in a deal worth 3.6 billion koruna ($195 million). ...
- Venezuela's Chavez threatens to expel Toyota carmaker
- T) unless it produces an all-terrain model of 4x4 vehicles used for public transportation in poor and rural areas. The fiery socialist, in a speech late on ...
Our Off Road 4x4 Driving Site
What to use, where to go!
This is our recreational site - loads of info for 4x4 fans and off-roaders.
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Off Road Training for professionals
This is our vocational and H&S training site for people who off-road as part of their job.
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Driver Training & Assessments - TravelSafe-UK Ltd
Our new site for Nigel Dawson and his colleagues at TravelSafe
TravelSafe aim to compete with some of the real big boys with their new company. We're happy to be a part of the training by offering our 4x4 courses through them.
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- Aladdins-Cave Aladdins-Cave Sep 16, 2009 @ 3:50 am
- Great lens, thank you. I'm making one for Australian 4x4 and you have given me some good ideas.
Thank you from downunder. Gus
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- S W Allen S W Allen Feb 24, 2009 @ 1:11 pm
- I love a lens about offroading. It is getting hard to find a public place, I think private land is better. As long as the owner is cool with it. If you get a chance visit Mudding Trucks Blog.
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- Loyalis Loyalis Oct 26, 2007 @ 3:31 pm
- Welcome to the Off-Road Group! Tips to avoid high centering while not spilling your drink are always welcome.
Driver Training
Fully Accredited Driver Training Courses for 4x4 Operators and Professionals
Beyond Driving provide the most comprehensive Off Road Training in the UK. Using only qualified DSA and LANTRA trainers they have a wealth of experience regarding all aspects of 4x4 driving.
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Another of our fantastic off road training blogs.
Keep up to date with the news surrounding some of the legislation and opportunities surrounding 4x4 and ATV (quad bike) training for professional riders and drivers.
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For as much information as the editors can throw at you.
Off Road 4x4 Driving is a fan site - starting off with Land Rover, it now has reviews of the whole Landy, Range Rover, Santana and Bowler ranges written by real off-roaders FOR real off roaders.
We'll be adding other makes soon, but in the meantime there's a whole section on 4x4 driving days, another on off-road tyres and 4x4 insurance, so have fun.
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