During this year’s conference the South Carolina Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association (SCDTSEA) in partnership with the American Driver and Traffic Education Association (ADTSEA) awarded our own Lance Collins with the award for “Outstanding Dedication and Service Award”. This award is given “For faithful, outstanding, and dedicated service to SCDTSEA.”
This award recognized Lance as a leader as the owner of one of the largest and sought after driving schools in the upstate of South Carolina. This award also recognizes Lance as a leader in the state of South Carolina as a whole in having a leadership role in our state association for over ten years.
We are starting to post new pictures of our students on our students tab. These are students who have passed the test. We appreciate all our students and hope they go on to continue to be safe drivers.
Driving in icy conditions can be very dangerous especially for new drivers. Our own Lance Collins was interviewed by WSPA’s Collin Riviello on how to navigate this dangerous situation. Follow this link for the story and video interview. Remember the most important thing to do in any skidding situation is to look and steer where you want the vehicle to go.
Below are some photos from our Christmas Party at the end of 2023. Enjoy!
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!
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.
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.
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.
Our location for classroom has changed. We are now conducting classes at the Cambria Hotel at 135 Carolina Point Parkway Greenville, SC 29607.
