Auto-Safe Christmas Party 2023
Below are some photos from our Christmas Party at the end of 2023. Enjoy!
New Instructor: Ken Alexander
We are happy to welcome our new instructor Ken Alexander. He comes to us from another school and was already certified to do Behind the Wheel, Classroom, and Testing. He has experience as a professional driver (CDL) and several positions working with youth (Greenville County Schools and Southern Wesleyan University) and is already a great asset to our company.
Welcome to the team Ken!
National Teen Driving Safety Week
This week is teen driving safety week nationally and our own Lance Collins was interviewed by Ariana Meadows from WSPA news about this important topic of encouraging teens to drive safe. See the video at this link.
New Instructor: Tracy Fleming
We are happy to announce the hire of a new instructor: Tracy Fleming. Tracy Fleming comes to us with over 25 years of experience teaching Public School Driver’s Education and private Driver’s Education teaching. Some of the districts in which he taught were Aiken, Allendale, and Bamberg. He was a board member for the South Carolina Baseball Coaches Association. Tracy holds a B.A. in Physical Education from Erskine College and Master of Sports Coaching from the United States Sports Academy. Tracy has already shown himself to have good rapport with students, parents, and his co-workers. Welcome Tracy to the Auto-Safe team.
Fox Carolina Story
Auto-Safe Driving School was recently featured in an interview with Fox Carolina's Tresia Bowles follow the link to see the story.
https://www.foxcarolina.com/.../driving-schools-increase.../
Second Generation Student
We recently had a student finish our program that was a second generation student. Cooper Smith a Hampton Park Christian School student pictured below passed his road test recently. His mom Michelle also pictured below is a former student of our founder James Collins.
Auto-Safe has been in business since 1989 and is locally owned and operated and now has been serving two generations of drivers to make our upstate roads safer.
New Location for Classroom
Our location for classroom has changed. We are now conducting classes at the Cambria Hotel at 135 Carolina Point Parkway Greenville, SC 29607.
Auto-Safe Fleet Training
Lance Collins yesterday did a class for Teen Pact's group of interns for this coming year. If your company needs fleet training tailored to your needs contact us today.
Commercial Teacher of the Year: Lance Collins
We are pleased to announce that Lance Collins was awarded the 2020 Commercial Teacher of the Year award by the American Automobile Association (AAA) Carolinas and the South Carolina Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association (SCDTSEA). Lance has been a teacher at Auto-Safe since 2003. He has taught classroom since 2003 (as a AAA certified Driver Improvement Program (DIP) Instructor) and behind the wheel since 2005. He became the main classroom teacher in 2012 at the retirement of his father James and has been doing testing since 2013. He became an owner of Auto-Safe in 2018 and is Vice President handling educational, testing, and fleet operations.
December Happenings at Auto-Safe
First, Margie Poole our secretary had a birthday! Then our annual birthday party.
