Bridgewater Driving School

Negative experience: The place closed up and is out of business.

Fantastic experience: Great!! Brought cousin over here for lessons. After 3 quick lessons, cousin has permit now.

Fantastic experience: I am so beyond happy With Bridgewater driving school! Not only was my experience wonderful, it was fun to learn to drive and most important they taught me how to be a safe driver. I am 33 years old and put off getting my license for a long time. So happy I called Bridgewater driving school!:) Not only did they give me the skills to learn how to drive but the confidence too! Thank you again Bridgewater driving school for everything!!

Fantastic experience: Had a great experience with Bridgewater Driving school for my teen, very professional and responsible staff, so much convenient to schedule lessons per our convenience, I highly recommend this school if anyone is looking for options to engage driving school services.

Fantastic experience: The staff is very motivational, friendly, professional and accommodating. My daughter had received great coaching lessons (6 hours behind the wheel and then driving test) and was very comfortable with this school. They are very accommodating in pickup and drops. in addition, takes care of complex DMV paper work and advised us accordingly. Highly recommend this school for anyone's driving lessons need.

Negative experience: Scheduled my daughter for lessons and the instructor never showed up.

Fantastic experience: My six hours were amazing leading up to my permit. Big shoutout to my instructor Mike for making it all possible and being really accommodating and funny!

Fantastic experience: A number of friends recommended this school. The staff is accommodating, friendly and professional. My daughter recieved great instruction and was very comfortable. Highly recommend.

Negative experience: I just got my license yesterday! Unfortunately, it was no thanks to the Bridgewater Driving School. When I went for my first attempt back in February, I only had around 10 hours of driving practice and was not ready for the road test. Without realizing just how badly I needed more practice, I went to take the road test anyway and paid the BDS $150 for an hour lesson before the test and usage of their vehicle. You might think that by spending $150 for services like that they'd be miracle workers. On the contrary, my odds of passing the road test were decreased because of their services rather than increased. Again, I probably would've failed anyway, but the BDS did have their own part to play in me failing. When the instructor took me to a parking lot to practice what would be on the Edison road test, he was trying to point to white lines in the parking lot to symbolize a sharp turn that would be on the test. For the first few times he tried showing me, I didn't understand what he was pointing at. When he had me do the turn, he shouted rapidly, "GAS TURN GAS TURN GAS TURN," which came out of nowhere. He did the same thing for the next several attempts and as a result my nerves were going through the roof. He finally said, "alright you're not getting it, let me show you how it's done because if you try any more times you'll just get frustrated before the test." When we got to the road test, we arrived there ten minutes late and the examiner said to us, "you're late." Whether or not the practice test says that you're allowed to be late for your road test, the examiner had a bad first impression of me nonetheless. We would have gotten there on time if it wasn't for the instructor wasting the first ten minutes of our "$150 lesson" talking to me about how wonderful of a driver he was with a rehearsed dramatic tone in his voice. When I called and complained about the services I received, nothing I had to say had any merit whatsoever because I had failed my road test (I purposely waited until passing my road test before writing this review for this very reason). Every single complaint I made to them was turned around on me in a derogatory way as if I was 100% wrong with all of them. Tom the owner would rather treat his customers like children whining about failing their road test than as customers with valid concerns. Even when I told Tom, "I would've failed the road test anyway but what I'm complaining about is how your services lowered my odds of passing," he still took 0% of the blame and put it 100% on me. Paying for the Bridgewater Driving School's services is a paradox. You either have enough driving experience to pass the test on your own or you're going to fail the test anyway even with their services. Just like Tom's opinion of his customers, there is no gray area. If you think you need their help to pass the road test, save your money and just spend more time practicing until you feel ready. If you insist on having a cushion anyway, at the very least pay for a different driving school instead. There is one thing that the BDS is good for, and that's their parallel parking procedure. For your reference, here is their procedure at no cost to you: 1. Put on right turn signal. 2. After being parallel to the front cones, continue forward straight until the front left flag appears in the middle of the triangle window in the right rear. 3. Turn the wheel all the way to the right and back up slowly. The first two flags in the back should pass through the back speaker behind you in the rear window. Stop after the third flag is in the middle of the speaker. 4. Straighten out the wheel. Back up slowly until the front left flag is in the middle of the car's right mirror. 5. Turn the wheel all the way to the left and back up slowly until the car is parallel with the cones in the back. 6. Drive to the middle of the parking space by going one foot forward. 7. Put into park. Note that this is the procedure for the BDS car. Practice it with your own car first and edit it as needed before the test.

Negative experience: Terrible Driver's practice test. obviously created by an illiterate, spelling property as "poperty", and stop giving me the wrong page numbers

Fantastic experience: it was k

Negative experience: Complete rip off. Be careful about this school. For showing me the DMV office and infoming me about learners permit he charged amount in three digits.

Negative experience: Today in Hillsborough at 2:45 PM, I witnessed one of their employees waiting to make a turn at Hillsborough Road and Route 206 South in heavy traffic, while the DRIVER WAS ON HIS CELL PHONE!!! I called the BWDSand left a message letting them know about this, and received a call back about fifteen minutes later. It was not the owner, but another "instructor", who had heard my message, and wanted to explain to me why the employee was not complying with the law by using a hands-free device. His story? "It was an emergency, he said. " I needed to contact him and speak with him immediately". I asked this gentleman if breaking the law in heavy volume traffic was the norm when working for a driving school, and excuses flowed fast and furious. " How can I be sure that you're on a hands-free device right now"?, he asked me, swiftly deflecting from the issue at hand. I explained to him, once again the irony of a car, with a instructor talking on a cell phone , NON HANDS FREE, with a HUGE DRIVING SCHOOL SIGN FLASHING ATOP THEIR INSTRUCTIONAL vehicle. No, he didn't. He said the instructor, a young man, could not pull over to take the call, in this emergency, even in violation of NJ State Law. So, if ever deciding to bring your young adults or soon-to-be-licensed family members to BWDS, read this review closely, and remember that the distracted driver that might kill or injure your newly-licensed driver, just might be the one who "instructed" them...They do not teach young men and women to pull over to answer the phone in case of an emergency, they tell them that it's OK to BREAK THE LAW if it's an emergency.