Use Your Car for Work? Consider These 5 Tools
Whether you travel from town to town for your job, run errands, make deliveries, or are part of a ride share service, driving your car for work has many pros and cons. For those who use their car for work, there are typically three primary concerns – efficiency, safety, and liability. Fortunately, with the increase in car-based jobs, there have been many recent innovations to tackle these issues and improve driver experience....
Passing the Driving test with Chronic Dyslexia
Dyslexia affects about 8% to 10% of the population, this month Ladybird Driving School look at some of the challenges a person with dyslexia faces when learning to drive Throughout each year pupils present to our driving school with a range of conditions and we have taught and passed pupils with Polio, Parkinson’s, Prosthetic limbs, profoundly deaf, Dyslexia and many more conditions. Patrick was diagnosed late in his teens with...
On the bike one year on….
Lara Platman took her Direct Access Motorcycle with Honda Motorcycles and wrote to tell Wheels for Women how she got on, she returns to tell us her latest news about her motorcycle exploits… Over a year ago now I took it upon myself to pass a Direct Access motorcycle exam with Honda with their Get On scheme and get on a motorcycle. I thought it would be an excellent way to find a boyfriend if anything. I wrote about it here...
Why aren’t more women cycling in Dublin?
Women represent just one in four people who travel by bike. The Dublin Cycling Campaign Women on Wheels presented details of their research this week at an International cycling conference. The aim of the study was to find out why women represent such a low proportion of those travelling on two wheels, in fact, only 27% of commuters by bike in Ireland are women. ‘Women on Wheels’ coordinator Louise Williams says: “We looked around and...
7 Things All Women Should Know About Selling Their Car
Contrary to popular belief, selling your car can be a quick and painless process. With a few hours of research and preparation, you can have your vehicle listed online for a fair price. To help keep you organized, here are seven things you should know about selling your car. How to Determine an Asking Price There are a number of steps for evaluating your car’s worth. Compare your car’s make and model online – The first step is to use...