About DriveReady Coach

What DriveReady Coach is

DriveReady Coach is a standalone app for the person in the passenger seat — a parent supervising a learner, or a driving instructor tracking a student between lessons. It’s not a quiz app and it doesn’t teach road rules. It’s a coaching and logging tool: it helps you run a consistent pre-drive check, note what went well and what didn’t during the drive, and see how a learner is actually progressing over time.

Every supervised drive gets logged with real conditions — day or night, local roads or highway, clear, cloudy, or wet. Every skill gets a one-tap observation while you’re still watching the road. Over several drives, patterns emerge: what’s becoming solid, and what genuinely still needs work. When it’s time to talk to an instructor, you export a dated PDF log instead of trying to remember three weeks of practice from memory.

Why it was built

Supervising a learner driver is a real responsibility, and most people doing it — parents especially — are improvising. You’re watching the road, coaching in the moment, and trying to remember what needs more practice next time, all at once. Nothing gets written down. Nothing gets tracked. By the time a driving instructor asks “how’s the highway driving going?”, the honest answer is usually a guess.

DriveReady Coach was built to close that gap — not by adding homework, but by making the thing you’re already doing (watching, coaching, noticing) take two seconds to record. The pre-drive checklist exists because the habit of checking a vehicle properly matters as much as the driving itself. The pattern detection exists because “he’s pretty good now” is a lot more useful when it’s backed by five actual drives, not a feeling.

Who built DriveReady Coach

I built DriveReady Coach because my career has given me a broad perspective on people, behaviour, safety and the importance of helping people succeed.

I started my career as a Highway Patrol Officer in Central Alberta, followed by a 30-year career with the Edmonton Police Service. During that time, I worked across many areas of policing, including patrol, forensic services, criminal investigation, recruitment and selection, employee development and performance management, and research and development. I retired as an Inspector.

I later joined the City of Edmonton’s Office of Traffic Safety as Senior Speed Manager, a role I held for seven years. During that time, I had the opportunity to work with some of the top traffic safety engineers in the country and developed a deeper understanding of traffic safety through the 5 Es: Education, Engineering, Enforcement, Encouragement and Evaluation.

Throughout my career, one philosophy has stayed with me:

Give everyone a chance to be successful.

That means giving people the knowledge, opportunity to practise and feedback they need to improve — and recognizing that everyone learns differently.

That philosophy is a big part of why I built DriveReady Coach.

A new driver records countless hours practising with a parent, family member or instructor. The person beside them is watching, coaching and trying to remember what needs more practice next time. I felt there should be a simple tool to help make those hours more productive without turning them into paperwork.

DriveReady Coach is an independent project, developed in Alberta, Canada, with a simple goal: give learners and coaches better tools to make every practice drive count.

How it relates to DriveReady

DriveReady Coach is a separate, standalone product from DriveReady (drivereadycanada.ca), Canada’s driver knowledge test preparation platform. They share a name and a visual family because they share a mission — helping new drivers get ready, safely — but they solve different problems for different people.

• DriveReady is for the learner driver studying for a written knowledge test, province by province, in Canada.
• DriveReady Coach is for the parent or instructor supervising the actual practice drives, anywhere in the world.

You don’t need one to use the other. They just happen to be built by the same person, for the same reason.

Better Practice. Better Drivers.

Coming soon to Google Play and the Apple App Store.