
Premier Driving Institute Inc

Information about Premier Driving Institute Inc
Opening hours
- sunday: (closed)
- monday: 9h-17h
- tuesday: 9h-17h
- wednesday: 9h-17h
- thursday: 9h-17h
- friday: 9h-14h
- saturday: (closed)
COMPLETE Driver Education for teens and adults. Don’t be fooled by the competition that only meets part of the state requirement! Take your Road Test with us. Skip the BMV!
With over 25 instructors and online scheduling for driving appointments, Premier Driving Institute can meet anyone’s needs for driver education across Northern Indiana.
Complete the entire Driver Education course online. *We also have in-person classes monthly in Elkhart at our home office, for those looking for more traditional course study.
Drive with State-CERTIFIED instructors We offer convenient self-scheduled driving appointments through the student portal.
Just need an hour or two of behind the wheel practice? We offer that as well.
Our comment from DrivingSchools.Directory about Premier Driving Institute Inc:
Welcome to Premier Driving Institute Inc, where we are dedicated to providing exceptional driver education services. Our team of experienced instructors, including the well-regarded Betty, Adam Zache, and Kevin Hopper, has received numerous accolades from satisfied parents and students alike. Families have continuously recommended us, praising our commitment to delivering both classroom and in-car training. Many have shared positive experiences, highlighting the supportive environment we foster that helps alleviate anxiety in young drivers.
Notable highlights of our services include:
- Outstanding customer service that is appreciated by our clients, particularly emphasizing our staff's willingness to go above and beyond.
- Competent and patient instructors who are well-prepared and create a calming atmosphere for learners.
- Convenient online courses that cater to busy schedules, along with a solid in-car training program.
While we take pride in our services, some clients have expressed concerns about scheduling appointments and specific elements of the online course. We are actively working to improve our communication regarding appointment availability and the clarity of our online materials. Your feedback is crucial for our continuous improvement and is always welcome!
Join our community at Premier Driving Institute Inc—where driving education leads to success on the road. We can't wait to help you and your family become confident and capable drivers!
Premier Driving Institute Inc: Reviews
Fantastic experience: My son went through Premier for the courses, behind the wheel, and the drivers test. He enjoyed his instructors Adam Zache and Kevin Hopper. I have already recommended Premier to my friends and family. 100% recommend!
Positive experience: They do not teach anyone that they are Supposed to keep right when Not passing , State Law .
Hi, David. We appreciate your feedback and welcome all input as we strive to provide the best possible driver education. Teaching road rules to beginners is something we take great pride in. While it may sometimes seem that a student remains in the left lane longer than necessary, it’s often due to the added stress of traffic situations, which can lead to hesitation or require a bit more time to make a safe maneuver. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
Fantastic experience: We have put 2 kids through Premier's drivers ed program so far, and they've been very helpful! Betty in the office has always been fantastic and very helpful whenever we had an issue or a question.
Thank you for your kind words, Cassie!
Fantastic experience: All my children have been through this company. They loved it!
Thanks for the review, Amber! We are happy to hear it was a great experience!
Negative experience: I took drivers ed when I was a teenager (17) I had a terrible experience with one of the instructors yelling at me when I was having difficulty driving. I have anxiety and this experience only worsened my problems. Hate this place
As a small, family owned business, we certainly take a lot of pride in providing top-notch instruction to our students. We have reviewed our database and do not see any customers matching your name. Since we do not see you in our list of clients, we cannot look into this matter any further. Please give us a call to discuss this instructor you are referring to. Our phone number is 574-389-7648.
Fantastic experience: Both my boys have had driver’s training through Premier. I have had good experiences both times. I had an issue with scheduling for my younger son’s skills test so I called the office to see if they could help. They went above and beyond to find me an appointment time for my son so we could meet our deadline. Awesome customer service by Betty that was greatly appreciated!!
Fantastic experience: My children have all completed their driver’s training through Premier. They have received good classroom and driving experience. We are especially appreciative of Betty’s efforts to help out making the final driving hour and testing session fit into the schedule when my son had procrastinated.
Fantastic experience: Do we drive in LaPorte if you came and picked me up in Laporte?
Fantastic experience: Betty at premier is an amazing person who helped us out tremendously.
Thanks for the review, David! We will be sure to let Betty know she made your experience great!
Negative experience: Their area map shows they service our area. However, upon trying to get services started, they say they don't service this area. Probably something that needs to be made more clear on the website.
I apologize that we do not service every area represented by the map. Please understand, it is a generalization.
As a smaller, family owned business, we do take pride in our Google reviews. We will do everything we can to make our website less confusing.
Negative experience: We really did not want our daughter to take the online course, however, this was presented as pretty much the only option for her. After completing the course we have been down several times for her permit test and after each test she tells us questions that were not covered within the course. We have studied alongside her and have seen that the questions presented are incorrect from the course to the actual test. This may have been different in a class setting but would not recommend the online course.
We appreciate the feedback. We will pass that along to our online course provider, Welcome Driver.
The state provides us with a handful of options for online courses. We will certainly re-evaluate the choices we do have.
We certainly hope the in-car lessons with our instructors helps change your overall impression of Premier Driving Institute.
Fantastic experience: Fantastic experience! Thank you Premier!
Fantastic experience: Great classroom and driving instructors. My daughter has high anxiety and struggles to do courses online. She had a very pleasant experience in the classroom. She just loved her instructor! She waited over a year to take her driving lessons and ended up struggling to get them done before her permit expired. Betty worked tirelessly, going above and beyond to ensure my daughter could get her license. This woman was amazing! She was polite and shared in my frustrations. Highly recommend this driving school. One of the best experiences I have had with a private company.
We appreciate your review very much! We especially understand the anxiety that goes with being a new driver and make it a priority to help our students feel comfortable. I’ll make sure Betty sees your kind words as well!
Positive experience: We had a solid experience with the online course and with the individual in-car trainers. However, we paid for 6 1 hour courses and have been able to get exactly 3 in this whole summer because: 1- they barely make any slots available, 2- they don't tell you when they're going to release schedule slots other than a general "some time Thursday afternoon", so you spend your entire Thursday afternoon refreshing your browser every 5 minutes to see when they open the slots or you check and see the limited slots are all filled already. Good luck scheduling the drivers lessons you pay for. But if you miraculously get one scheduled, the instructors are great.
Negative experience: Rude and terrible customer service
I’m sorry you had a bad customer service experience.
I would like to know more so I can do my best to correct the issue. Please email me or call the office and ask for the owner.(I tried searching our database for your name without any matches, so I am wondering if you are a client or called to ask questions) Any insight will be much appreciated.
Fantastic experience: Kent is such an amazing driving instructor and gives really good advice! i’m sure there’s other amazing driving instructors there as well!
Fantastic experience: I am an adult that until recently had very minimul driving experience. I was very nervous about taking my driving exam at the BMV so I called Premier Driving. After completing my online lessons I started my in-car lessons. I had three different instructors and they were all very well prepared and easy-going which calmed my driving anxiety. I had most of my lessons with Dave and will miss our morning drives. Thank you Dave! Thanks to Premier Driving I have started my driving career on a strong and confidence boosting foundation.
We appreciate your review, Elisa!
We take great pride in helping our clients improve in a calm environment. Thank you for sharing your experience and for the 5-star review! I will certainly let Dave know as well:)
Positive experience: I need my Driver's License and I'm 54 yrs old. Can someone help me to get my Driver's License so that I will be very Valuable for my Job? Thank you!
Hi. We are certainly help
Give us a call at 574.389.7648
Just out of curiosity, was there a reason for the 3star? We are a small family- owned business. We appreciate any feedback.
Fantastic experience: I've had two sons go through Premier Driving and we have been very happy. The online courses make taking the lessons convenient, the in car teachers have all been top notch, and the customer service is exemplary! Thank you Premier for getting our boys on the road.
We are so happy to hear about your experience!
Thank you for your 5-Star Review, Amy!
Negative experience: Really should teach your drivers to do the speed limit on US20. 40 in a 55 is not a smart idea.
As a small, family owned business we do appreciate and value non-customer feedback as well. We apologize for our young driver’s nervousness.
We also appreciate the patience of experienced road users.
That said, I would ask you to reconsider leaving a one star review for the actions of a young, inexperienced driver. We take a lot of pride in our Google review! I would be happy to discuss over the phone or in person if you would like.
Thanks you,
Bob
Co-owner
574-389-7648
Fantastic experience: Our experience has been great. The instructor has been very punctual and has given good constructive feedback.
Thanks for the five-star review, Heather! We appreciate your business!
Fantastic experience: Our instructors were always on time and available whenever we tried to schedule. The feedback was positive and helpful. They also did a great job keeping the classroom phase interesting as well! Both of my sons have attended Premier and enjoyed all of their in car and classroom instructors and I will be sending my third son there as well in a year! Thanks!
Thanks for the feedback, Jenifer! We greatly appreciate your business.
Fantastic experience: This place is really good at instruction drivers ed. Would recommend to go here if you need to get instructed for a driver's license. Lit dog is cool.
Thanks so much for the 5 star review, Cameron. We are glad to hear you had a great experience.
Fantastic experience: Really nice Teachers
Fantastic experience: Beyond satisfied with this business! Not only was it worth the money I spent, but I’ll be sending my daughter through Premier driving Institute as well because I am so pleased with their service!!!
Thank you so much Crystal! We are glad to hear you had a great experience at Premier! We take a lot of pride in our business. We look forward to working with your daughter in the future.
Negative experience: Poorly organized.
I am sorry to hear have had a negative experience. If you call our office at 574-389-7648 I have instructed our office manager to give you my personal cell and I will do my best to make it right. I value your business!
-Bob
Co-Owner
Fantastic experience: Amazing drivers-ed school! Teachers are wonderful and full of humor and smiles each day for all the students
Fantastic experience: Premier Driving Institute far exceeded my expectations! The instructors were wonderful. Punctual and communicated if they were running behind. I felt complete trust as the mother of a new driver.
Positive experience: I was impressed that when there was an issue that the owner called me immediately to resolve the issue and apologized for things that weren’t even his fault.
Fantastic experience: Fantastic experience for my young driver! Bob did a great job, always on time and communication was the best! Highly recommend this place
Thank you for the great review! We appreciate your business.
-Bob
Fantastic experience: Bob O’Hara (but imagine if he was a Chinese dojo instructor so har like hard and a like ah) is the best so far.
Ha! Thanks for the review! Glad you enjoyed your experience at Premier!
-Bob
Fantastic experience: Great service from driving instructor, Bob O’Hare. Thanks for great communication and flexibility with my young driver!
Thank you for the review. We greatly appreciate your business.
Fantastic experience: Good class, helpful instructors. Lit diggity was in fact the lit-est of diggity's
Lit greatly appreciated hearing your review! We appreciate your business!
Fantastic experience: I took classes at premier driving institute and they were SOOO helpful. They made me a better driver and overall a safer person on the road. I thank them so much for what they have taught me. Also... Lit Dog is VERY LITTY!!!
Thank you for the review! We greatly appreciate having your business!
Fantastic experience: the BMV tells you when you get your permit that you are required to complete drivers ed to get your license at 16 yrs 90 days, they don’t tell you that drivers ed is not just the 30 hours classroom you HAVE TO HAVE 6 hours with an instructor or wait until 16 and 270 days. We found that out the hard way and Premier was awesome to quickly accommodate us and schedule so my son could complete his 6 hours before having surgery! The driver was great and gave him new tips even though he was an overall good driver. I wish we would’ve just started and gone with them in the first place and I will do for the rest of my kids ! Great customer service.
Thank you for the review! We greatly appreciate having your business!
Fantastic experience: Love the instructors and the class it is the best way to learn driving I will let every one I know that needs drivers ed to go to the school
Thank you so much for your willingness to pass our name along to your friends and family!
Fantastic experience: Gud gud
Positive experience: Everyday I don't wanna come to this place but the teachers are nice and it's cool
Fantastic experience: Litdawg is the bomb. Had a great time.
We agree...Litdawg is a one-of-a-kind instructor! Thanks for the 5-star review!
Fantastic experience: Class was great. Teaching was great I feel like I learned alot. Prepared me for the road. Other teachers were meh Litdawg was infact lit.
Fantastic experience: It was a great time with lit dawg
Negative experience: Online portion is not good. Spelling and grammar mistakes. Sometimes it says that you are incorrect, but it shows that the correct answer is the one you chose. Please fix that for future students. The employees are very kind though. Also, too much time. Everybody seems to get done early. I got done with over 10 hours left. People just let it run. IT'S SO STUPID.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience with the online class. The company that provides the class is approved by the state of Indiana and we don't have any control over content changes, but I will forward your concerns to the company. By the way, some students take a 3rd party online class from other vendors. I don't see any errors in spelling or grammar, so maybe you took a different company's class? As for the timer, all online providers must utilize it to meet state requirements.
Negative experience: Boring but necessary. The problem is the quiz after every section. A lot of times it will say incorrect, but tell me the correct answer is the one I answered. There are also spelling and grammar errors.
If you wouldn't mind, call us to discuss. It sounds like you may have used a different company for the online portion of driver education. I hope the in-car instruction was better than your online class experience!
Negative experience: Every thing is good , until its time for your to make appointment for your driving hours, you can only make 1 appointment on Thursday only, must do this every week..On Thursday they are so busy, you can not get thru to them on the phone, to make an appointment..Been almost 2 months trying to make 4 appointments,, in my view, totally unprofessional business.
I'm sorry to hear you had a difficult time scheduling. We do to be upfront about our busy seasons and scheduling times with our customers. Please feel free to call in to discuss.
Fantastic experience: Jim nice instructions
Positive experience: Fantastic. They helped me out big time and are so patient it's great! So glad I went through them for Driver's Education.
Positive experience: They didn't tell me driving time after the first week so we had to call them numerous times to get it. Then the fourth driving day they didn't even show up. But even after that everyone there was very polite and apologetic about it. Teachers were very nice and calm about everything
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