Owner of A Treasure Coast Driving School, Statewide Driver Instructor Training Provider of Modern Approaches to Traffic Safety.
My job responsibilities: John was a public school teacher/football/wrestling/baseball coach for 30 years and retired in 2018 after 30 years. John is also the founder and owner (with his son Kendall) of A Treasure Coast Driving School, one of the state of Florida’s most respected private commercial driving schools. ATCDSI has been in business for 30 years and has trained over 125,000 drivers in Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River, and Palm Beach counties. ATCDSI provides private driving lessons but also has public and private school contracts with counties mentioned above. ATCDSI also was one of the first to be certified by the State of Florida to administer the actual driving test so that students can do the ROAD TEST and then simply go to the Tax Collector/DMV and get their picture taken. John also wrote a statewide Florida Driving School Instructor Curriculum used in to train commercial driving school instructors for eligibility of employment by other driving schools throughout the State of Florida. His copy written curriculum has been bought and used by several driving schools across the United States as well as Puerto Rico. John has received several awards from the Driving School Association of America’s for his knowledge and passion about instructing students and instructors to be lifelong safe drivers and knowledgeable instructors.
Why I joined on the Coalition: I am very passionate that driver’s education may be the single most important thing that we teach our youth that has a LIFELONG lasting impression and if done correctly can have lifelong safety skills for a person’s entire driving career.
Professional accomplishments Public School teacher 30 years (retired 2 years ago). Several National Awards (voted by driving schools across the USA and Canada) from Driving School Association of America’s organization, Past Board member and Executive Vice President of Driving Schools Association of the Americas (DSAA).
Hobbies or areas of interest outside of work: Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Indians, Ohio State Buckeyes, also playing the drums (metal) and of course spending time with wife and family.
What was your favorite song when you were a teenager? Anything Metal, yes I was a head banger.
What make and model was your first car? 1974 Chevy Nova Super Sport.
What has changed most about driving from the time you were a teenager to now? Everyone’s overall attitude (life in general) and how everything has to be DONE right now and EVERYTHING always has to be at our fingertips… People have unfortunately woven and entwined that into driving habits as well.
The one tip I would give any new teen driver would be: “Put the phone down, and start paying attention to directions, even google isn’t always right.”
