Blue Ridge Driving School, Staunton | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

I signed my daughter up for the drivers ed course and behind the wheel after emailing with the owners about the course to make sure it was the correct class for my daughter since the information on their website is very vague. I was assured that the drivers ed course would be for my daughter as she had not taken the written permit test and didn’t have a permit yet. Fast forward 8 weeks and now the owner is telling me that she should have already taken the test and that this course that she just went through was for individuals who had failed the written test 3 times and if she had taken the test and failed the course would allow her to get her permit. I am beyond annoyed. I specifically contacted them and got an affirmative from them that this course was for students who had not taken their written permit test yet. So essentially they took my money and didn’t communicate that the class was not what we had discussed I was looking for. I would not recommend them for any future business. When I brought up the fact that we had emailed about this prior to my signing up my daughter and paying, I was told “he gets a lot of emails” as if that is an excuse for lying about what the course is.

Mr Hutson makes the Driver’s Improvement Class seem much shorter than it is.

You don’t want to be sitting in his class all day Saturday. The court/DMV required it… Now it’s where you are. But, Gary makes it go by quickly. He’s very knowledgeable and friendly. This class could be quite painful and boring, but Gary breaks it up with friendly conversation and relates class subject matter to real world scenarios. I entered into the class with low expectations, but was very pleasantly surprised.

Gary’s website is a bit dated. The class is $65 (prepay) or $80 day of class now.

Structure wise, you get a couple “smoke breaks” and a lunch break. It’s equal amounts video/conversational setting.

I’d recommend Blue Ridge Driving School to anyone in need of any of their offered services solely based on Gary’s personality and knowledge. Thanks to Gary for knowing how to connect with his students.

This guy is a joke! He told me I could prepay for my class and then I could go to any class I wanted, got forced to work and called him let him know I’d be attending the following Saturday. He told me no I lose my money and got very rude and hung up. So he got my money and refused to let me to to another class. I ended up going to another school and had to pay again! GO TO ANOTHER SCHOOL HE ISN’T WORTH YOUR STRESS!!!