MasterDrive

I just recently completed our first drivers skills development course with Master Drive. I had all of our drivers enrolled from our business to give them some new skills while driving for our business. Brian and Mark really took the time to plan out our course which included some class room instruction as well as the hands on driving with our company vehicles. All of our drivers including myself felt we had learned quite a bit of new techniques and I look forward to continue training every year for our business. I wanted to give our drivers the tools they needed to be safe while driving in the busy Orange County area and I’m so glad I choose Master Drive to help our employees be safer on the road.

As the parents of 4 children, we just attended our 2^nd «drivecital» with MasterDrive. I was more impressed this time than I was the first. Our daughter was indecisive and hesitant behind the wheel. They not only provide education and real life instruction but also the confidence she needed. Thank you MasterDrive. The only thing that would make your service better would be a few more instructors so the wait time was so rough and a buy 3 get 1 free:)

I actually took this course while living in Colorado and I can’t express enough how valuable this course is! The training I received I’m sure has literally saved my life on more than one occasion. I recommend this course to all friends and family, especially for teenagers. I took this course as a teenager and it’s much easier to start out with the right driving habits. It’s worth every penny!

4 years ago my daughter went through this program and not my son is too. The instructors are very knowledgeable, polite and they are on time to the appointments. My wife and I feel much more comfortable with them driving knowing that both of our children have gone through this program

my kids are better drivers because of masterdirve…

My daughter had two behind-​the-​wheel lessons with Master Drive of Orange County that she had not yet completed when we found out that her drivers permit had expired! Unfortunately, she was leaving in TWO WEEKS for a five-​month internship in Washington, D.C. Not only did the staff at Master Drive of Orange County help us navigate the DMV process to obtain a new permit, they were also able to schedule both remaining lessons within days! Yesterday, my daughter passed her DMV drivers’ test and will leave for D.C. with a temporary drivers license! Throughout this hectic situation, Mike and his Master Drive staff remained helpful and kind. We felt that they really wanted my daughter to reach her goal! The customer service that we received far exceeded our expectations. THANK YOU, Master Drive of Orange County!”

2 of my 3 kids have attended Masterdrive. Our experience with Masterdrive has been great. Our kids enjoyed the experience and brought even taught me a few things. They are safe, confident drivers and I am confident Masterdrive has made a big difference. Thanks Masterdrive!

Thank you Master Drive of OC! It took me almost a month trying to decide which of the driving school to enroll my son and I am glad I choose Master Drive. The office staffs and driving instructors are very friendly, professional, and accomodating. From the first day I called the office, Sheryl and Steven are always there ready to offer help. My son just finished the 2 days driving course camp before taking the On-​Street training and I feel Master Drive have done a great job teaching him the basic car control skills to become a competent driver. Again… just like many moms, I am horrified with the thoughts teaching a teenager to get behind-​the– wheel lessons and would totally get out of control with frustration. Master Drive has done a great job introducing to my child the basic skills training how to execute a crash avoidance maneuver, how to maintain dynamic control, how to brake in a crisis situation, skid control and skid recovery, etc… and all this was done in a 2-​days driving camp! Very impressive! :)
Thank you Master Drive! I would refer this place to anyone who needs a driving school… especially for the teens!

Just got off the phone with Jamie to schedule my son’s Driver Education. He and I had attended a presentation 1.5 years ago at his high school. At that time we were offered free DE for attending. Jamie said that they no longer offer free DE. I told her I understand that it is not offered at the present time, but that I expected the offer to be honored since that was the agreement back then. I couldn’t believe that a business wouldn’t honor its oral contract. She then said that there was a one-​year limit to that offer. I told her that there was no mention of when the DE had to be taken. I am very careful about expiration dates for offers, and am sure there was no expiration stated. Master Drive’s website states that they are concerned about teen driver safety, but I think their priority is money.

This is probably a little delayed because my daughter has been driving for a year now, but I feel compelled to write a review as a warning to other parents. My oldest went through masterdrive and we had no problems. So it came time to get my daughter instruction, I signed her up for Masterdrive. Let me just say, never again will I use this company. To my horror, one of the in class instructors told my daughter’s class that she sped to get to class, and if you speed, you have to be wiling to accept the consequences of a ticket. What? A program who we paid LOTS of money to teach our daughter to be a safe driver, just condoned speeding to a group of young drivers about to hit the roads. She made the roads less safe through her example. And just to make things worse, she also shared with the class the number of accidents she herself had been in (I want to say it was 8, but I forget the exact number). I was livid to say the least, because my husband and I are both physicians and have seen first hand the consequences of speeding on the road… it’s not pretty. I emailed masterdrive immediately about my outrage that I had trusted them and they completely violated our trust and did a disservice to every teen in that class and their families. I received no call or response. In fact I had to call three times before speaking to someone in charge, who supposedly was going to get back to me, but was waiting to verify everything I had told him with the instructor (which was verified by the way). Their response was less than encouraging… I felt like they really didn’t see it as such a big problem but that they were speaking to the instructor about not letting this happen again. In my mind, they should have called every single family in that class and had the teens come to an extra class and talk about the gravity of speeding and the instructors error in judgement and poor driving habits, accidents, and why she was a horrible warning rather than a good instructor. I am getting angry all over again writing this. Let me say that when we sat and listened to their spiel to the parents during the two day intensive inroad skid training, I wanted to vomit at the hipocracy. I should have spoken up and said something then, but I didn’t and I regret it… so consider this my warning. My youngest will be ready to take driver’s ed soon, and I won’t touch this company with a ten foot pole.

My daughter took the 2 day defensive driving course during which she spent more time sitting around then driving. There were 7 students in her group for one instructor thus there was a lot of down time. In the end she said she was glad to take it but thought there was way to much sitting idle in her car. The real problem came with scheduling driving lessons. I was told not to schedule till after the defensive driving course and she should be able to get a lesson a week out. Well the times available area mainly during the day. I did get one Sat 2 weeks later. I just went on to schedule another weekend lesson and was told next available was April 26. I was told I would be put on a cancellation list in case parents cancel. The next available apt was March 7^th at 7:30 in the evening on a Friday which I did take. Bottom line they are not schedule friendly for students in school. Additionally when you get an Email reminder about your lesson time they tell you that there is a high chance another student will be in the lesson as well. Master Drive does not tell you this when you sign up. I did call and requested no other students in the car and they will honor that. I would recommend another driving school that has more flexibility in scheduling as well as more drivers.

We used MasterDrive for 2 of our teenagers driver’s training. Their program is comprehensive and professionally run. Their Skills Workshop gave our teens confidence in being able to deal with tricky driving situations in real life. The Drivers Ed classroom sessions were taught by experienced instructors who not only had DMV rules knowledge, but also had practical information to help our teens be more effective drivers. Office staff was flexible and patient with our pro-​longed scheduling of sessions (by our choice). Our account rep was friendly, accommodating, & followed up with us. I’d recommend Master Drive to others.