📱 Explore the Drive My Way App

Diary & scheduling

📅 Delete Your Other Calendar

Most instructors run two: one for lessons, one for everything else. Then the dentist goes in the wrong one and a pupil gets booked over it. Drive My Way holds your whole week, work and personal, so there is only one place to look, and only one place to get it wrong.

• Colour-coded lesson, test, mock test and gap blocks, booked, delivered or cancelled, across the whole week
• Your own appointments and holidays alongside them: the dentist, five-a-side, the school run
• Anything that repeats, repeats, weekly or daily, up to half a year, so a standing commitment is set once instead of typed in every week
• Bank holidays already marked, and the right ones: England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland genuinely differ, so yours come from your postcode
• Your own appointments stay yours. Pupils see that you are busy, never what you are doing, and your notes are never shown to anyone
• Working hours set day by day, so Saturday can be different to Monday, and exact times where a day needs them, so mornings and evenings with a gap in between is a real option rather than one long block
• Teach manual and automatic? Say which car each day is for, and your enquiry form only offers a pupil the days you teach their car on
• Holidays show on both sides automatically, yours on their app, theirs on yours
• Cancellation-charge decisions when notice is short, and past holidays tidy themselves away
• Driving school owners see every instructor's diary in one place

Availability & holidays

🗓️ Holidays That Don't Need a Phone Call

Instructor holidays show up on the pupil's app. Pupil holidays show up on the instructor's app. Nobody has to ask, guess, or send a "are you away this week?" message. It's just there, on both sides, the moment either of you sets it.

• Set your own away days and they instantly appear on every affected pupil's home screen
• Pupils mark their own holidays; you see it straight in your diary, no phone call needed
• Both show clearly colour-coded, so nothing gets booked by accident over a holiday

Lesson planning

📌 Pencil Someone In Without Committing to Anything

Tap a free slot and pencil a pupil in. It's just a placeholder on your diary at this point, not a booking. Keep it to yourself while you're still working out your week, or reveal it to the pupil straight away. Either way, nothing's locked in until you're ready.

When you are, ask them to confirm with a single tap in their own app. The second they accept, that pencilled-in offer automatically switches into a fully booked lesson, no re-entering it, no separate booking step. Decline it instead, and you're notified straight away so the slot's free again.

• Plan your week without every pencil mark being a firm commitment
• Choose exactly when the pupil gets to see it
• One tap to confirm, it becomes a real booking automatically

Practical tests

🚗 Never Miss a Test Cancellation Deadline

The moment a driving test is booked, the app works out the exact cancel-by date and shows it right on the pupil's card, no mental maths, no digging through a diary to check if there's still time.

• Cancel-by date shown automatically on every booked test
• An automatic reminder message and push land for both instructor and pupil while there's still time to act
• One less way to lose a test fee to a missed cut-off

Messaging

✓✓ Know Exactly Who's Seen Your Announcement

Send a message to every active pupil, then tap it to see the whole list, who's read it, and exactly when, instead of opening each pupil's own conversation one by one to check.

• Every "Send to All" broadcast is logged in its own feed
• Tap any past broadcast to see a read receipt per pupil
• No more wondering whether that snow-day message actually landed

Filling gaps

⏳ A Cancellation Goes to Whoever's Been Waiting Longest

Someone cancels and you've got a two-hour hole. Instead of firing it at every active pupil and hoping, the app checks who's on your waiting list and has said they're free at exactly that time.

• Press Create gap and it asks first, with the longest-waiting pupil at the top
• Offer it to them, offer it and send the gap to everyone else too, or just send it as normal
• They Accept or Decline in their own app. Accepting moves them straight to Active
• Anyone already booked at that time is never offered it, whatever their availability says

Reflective learning

📝 Lesson Notes That Carry Into the Next Lesson

What was achieved, what to keep improving and the aim for next time, recorded once and carried forward automatically, so every lesson starts where the last one finished, and your pupil can see it too.

• Filled in by you or by the pupil, on the same shared log
• Next session's goal carries over on its own
• Whatever you set as the aim shows on your pupil's home screen against their next lesson, so they turn up already knowing what they are working on
• A full written history for every pupil

📖 The Full Highway Code, Built Into the App

Every pupil gets the complete official Highway Code inside the app, not a link out to gov.uk, the real text itself, browsable by section. It's free for every pupil regardless of whether their instructor has Premium.

• All 30 official sections, grouped the same way as the real Highway Code
• Genuine text, sourced from gov.uk under the Open Government Licence
• Its own top-level home screen tile, not buried inside another menu