Wembley, London NW10 0UN

1Driving.co.uk Driving School

Who we are

Five years in the passenger seat with a clipboard

1Driving is family-run, founded in 2021, and led by a man who used to decide whether you passed.

Most driving schools are started by instructors. This one was started by an examiner, and almost everything about how it works follows from that.

Young woman in the driver's seat, one hand on the steering wheel, holding up a set of car keys and smiling
Founded
2021
Asif marking DVSA tests
Five years
Instructors
14
Former DVSA examiners
2
Locations
Over 74
Languages spoken
7

The Story

Why an examiner started a driving school

Most driving schools teach you how to drive.
1Driving was built by the person who decided whether you pass.

Asif Zamir spent five years as a DVSA driving examiner. Five years sitting in the passenger seat with a marking sheet, watching people fail for the same handful of reasons over and over. Our entire method is built to eliminate the exact mistakes examiners mark you on.

Not dramatic reasons. Almost nobody fails a test by doing something frightening. They fail on junctions and lane positioning — being a little wide on a roundabout exit, hesitating where they should go, or going where they should hesitate.

Ordinary, fixable mistakes — the kind that no instructor has ever marked them on.

That became the foundation of 1Driving. We know the routes, the marking sheet, and exactly what the examiners are looking for; and we use it to pick every instructor and shape every course.

Thousands of learners have already trained using our examiner-led method.

Asif Zamir in London and Kamer Zamir in Birmingham. We have a diverse team of experienced instructors that have over a century of experience between them.

Empty frosted village road at first light, red-brick terraced cottages, Bell Lane sign and a traffic light on red

Learn from people who marked the test.

Five questions, about sixty seconds. A former DVSA examiner reviews every plan.

What that looks like

An examiner’s note

Examiner's hand marking a clipboard form on his lap, ID lanyard visible, learner's hands on the wheel beside him

Asif Zamir · Ex-DVSA driving examiner & Mohammad Zamir (Asim), 25 years’ experience, lead the team.

Examiner insightHendon test centre

Common test fault

Positioning & lane discipline

Most of the fails I marked at Hendon came from lane positioning on the North Circular slips, not from anything dramatic. Every Wembley course drills those exact approaches until they become second nature.

Asif Zamir

Former DVSA Driving ExaminerFive years marking tests

Every area page carries a note like this for its own test centre.

Where we are

13 offices, 4 regions

The head office is in Wembley. The rest are instructor bases across the patch — which is why a lesson in Hounslow starts in Hounslow rather than an hour after someone drives over from NW10.

North West London

  • Wembley (head office)82 Lovett Way, Wembley, London, NW10 0UN
  • NeasdenMitchellbrook Way, Neasden, London, NW10 8PE
  • Wembley (South Way)South Way, Wembley, London, HA9 0QB
  • Hendon & EdgwareWhitchurch Lane, Edgware, London, HA8 6QL

West London

  • GreenfordEastcote Avenue, Greenford, London, UB6 0NG
  • HounslowHeathside, Hounslow, London, TW4 5NJ
  • WhittonWhitton High Street, Whitton, London, TW2 7LB

Harrow & Hillingdon

  • Harrow & PinnerUxbridge Road, Pinner, London, UB10 0LR
  • UxbridgeMarlborough Parade, Uxbridge Road, Uxbridge, London, UB10 0LR
  • Iver & SloughIver, Buckinghamshire, SL0 9NX

Birmingham

  • Kitts GreenChurch Lane, Kitts Green, Birmingham, B33 9EN
  • Solihull (Windward Way)Windward Way, Smith's Wood, Birmingham, B36 0UH
  • Solihull (Bromford Road)Bromford Road, Hodge Hill, Birmingham, B36 8HU

Also

Things we do that are not lessons

Instructor training

Two of the team are instructor trainers. If you are working towards your ADI, ask.

Rehabilitation

Driver rehabilitation and drink-drive rehabilitation tuition, and assessment lessons for insurers and employers.

Private tuition

Discreet, flexible arrangements for private clients and visitors to the UK — pickup from your address, premium fleet, hours to suit.

Languages

Between them the team speaks English, Urdu, Punjabi, Somali, Hindi, Pothwari and Swahili.