:: Welcome to TOPGEAR Driving Academy - Specialists in Defensive and Advanced driver training

TOPGEAR was established in 1995 with one client as our base and only one instructor. We have now proudly celebrated our fourteenth year in business with over 100 active clients throughout South Africa and across our borders into Africa. We currently service our clients in over 12 countries throughout Africa and specialize in the Mining Industry. We currently have 4 permanent & 10 contract instructors who offer their specific skills in training to your specialized needs. As active partners in TOPGEAR we are continually striving to ensure we offer you, our clients, the best training academy within Southern Africa. Through our ongoing efforts to improve our company we continually assess and upgrade our training courses with the latest training methodology and information available locally and internationally.

All instructors are highly experienced within the driver training field and between us have over 60 years experience. We have all been on or are currently undergoing assessor accreditation through a SETA accredited training provider. We are currently aligning our training material to the unit standards as required by TETA, wherever possible. Drivers need be made aware of the dangers and how to deal with them in a systematic and safe manner.

The secret to our success is many fold and includes:

Our commitment to our clients
Offering a professional and effective training programme
Flexibility to meet client needs
Dedication & Enthusiasm

Our enthusiasm spills over into our training courses and we believe that we offer a dynamic and fun training experience to all our participants.

TOPGEAR Driving Academy has a vision to develop and deliver quality training that will enhance skills within Southern Africa. In essence we want all candidates that attend our courses to be PROACTIVE, rather than reactive, to excel rather than be mediocre. Our company motto reflects our training focus:

Promoting Driver Excellence

Our company objective is to protect our client’s two biggest assets within their companies, their Employees and Vehicles.

Through our training services and our product ranges we are able to offer affordable solutions to both private individuals and fleet operators. Our focus revolves primarily around the protection of the vehicles occupants and secondly on the vehicle. By changing a drivers approach to everyday driving we can effectively reduce the losses to both of the above.

TOPGEAR Driving Academy will enhance the skills and development of South African citizens by offering accredited training and quality assessment within the transport sector, in a professional manner. Training will be towards the outcomes of registered unit standards wherever possible, to allow learners to gain credits towards recognised qualifications. To achieve this mission, TOPGEAR will produce programmes of high quality, delivered by professional and highly qualified facilitators and assessed by qualified assessors.