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JODA COLLINS
DRIVING ACADEMY LLC
Behind-the-Wheel Training
Serving Escambia, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa Counties since 2008!
850 981-3355
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CONTRACT FOUR
BASICS April 5, 2025 Revised for ease of use on 11/13/25. No facts or figures changed. TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION
SECTION 2: LIMITED LIABILITY CLAUSES
SECTION 3: CONTRACT(S) / LEGAL DOCUMENTS
A. IDENTIFICATION
B. CONTRACTUAL COMMITMENTS
SECTION 4: FINANCES/MONEY
SECTION 5: TRAINING SPECIFICS
A. Those I will not train.
B. Parking and Three- point Turn
C. Out-of-sequence training
SECTION 6: LESSONS TWO AND FOLLOWING
SECTION 7: SCHEDULING
SECTION 8: STEERING
SECTION 9: EMAIL P.S. SECTION
SECTION 10: DISCLAIMER
Usually, before I quote a price for my services, the client (the financially responsible person) must Register and approve the INTRODUCTION found in this Contract (below).
I welcome suggestions how to shorten this document without removing important information. I will pay $10 for every 25 words anyone can find that can be removed from this Contract without, in my opinion and/or experience, deleting important information. I was able to reduce my charge for lesson one by $53 by having this long contract for everyone rather than tell each student and client all these things one person at a time.
SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION
A. After my first email to you, without an added fee, I only correspond about contractual matters, including but not limited to services, scheduling a fees, by email because with email:
(1). We have an easily accessed on-going chronological printed record of our business progress; a chronological written record that verbal conversations, voice mail or texting does not easily provide.
(2). I have no and I do not honor any verbal agreements. What follows, "But, you said..." is not valued, considered or respected no matter who says it, including me. If it is important, get it in writing. I do. Contracts are detailed to protect one another's rights. Your obligations are my rights. My obligations are your rights.
(3). Four to six percent of Americans are very bad people. Very bad people do not like Contracts because they cannot manipulate well-written legal documents. I get rid of and/or best protect myself from those bad people by requiring a Contract.
B. My Legal Documents are not for memorization. They exist:
(1). So you can decide if you want to do business with me.
(2). To prompt you to ask questions about content that you do not understand before agreeing to them by your signature or email notice of acceptance.
(3). So later disputes, disagreements
and/or confusion can be resolved by referencing said legal documents.
(4). To protect the rights and benefits of everyone, including you.
(5). To avoid the evil words, "But you said...!", "But you texted...!" and, "But I thought...!"
C. If you are a person with honor and moral fiber, I am very please to meet you! We live in world where many people do not have the honor or moral character to keep their contractual word. If you are such a person, thank you for not doing business with me.
D. After the Client approves the Legal Documents/Contract(s) and/or Attachment(s) by Date, there is a $10 per Client email (not per question) that deals with contractual matters, including but not limited to scheduling, service and/or fees that were already answered in the Legal Document(s) becauseI cannot afford to repeat agreed-on contractual matters for free and without that charge, once that begins, too many Clients feel comfortable bombarding me with questions because they did not read the Legal Documents, read them and forgot them, cannot read them but signed them anyway or can read them, but refuse to research them when then can contact me and ask question after question for free, after they already approved the Legal Documents. The hardest part of my job is trying to work with Clients that do not know the basic facts of the Legal Documents they signed and agreed to.
(1). All inquiries about the Legal Documents (Contracts) must be by email rather than text or voice mail unless other arrangements are approved.
E. Everything I do is designed to benefit the Client and the Student-driver as much as reason will allow me to do so, and to foster a smooth relationship between us.
F. I (Joda Collins) do not operate my business today like I did when I first started in 2008, nor like I did last year, or, maybe, yesterday. I am constantly working to improve. I operate my business like a man applying 17-years of experience in this business. I will probably not operate my business like you would. Thank you for giving me the benefit of the doubt and credit for learning better how to operate my business in my 17-years concentrated effort and learning.
G. I (Joda Collins) ONLY DISCUSS BUSINESS WITH THE CLIENT(the financially responsible person) on matters that deal with Legal Documents (Contracts), scheduling or feesbecause I will not invest time and energy clarifying contractual matters, including services, scheduling of fees with anyone else, only have to repeat the same information to the Client or correct the wrong understanding they received from the non-client I spoke with. Those that misrepresent themselves as the Client (financially responsible person for training fees) who are not, may be billed for the time and administration expense relative to that misrepresentation. "I did not know," is not a legal excuse. Please do NOT consume my time, energy and money by trying to do business with me if you are the one paying for my services. Thank you for that consideration.
H. Do not provide me any email address you do not want a, "Copy to," sent, at my discretion, sometimes or at all times.
I. I avoid using I or 0 in my paragraph designations because I can be a letter, a number, me our you, and 0 can be a letter a number or nothing. Such as:
I. I had I or 0 with 0 for I plus I, which I took to mean I.
J. I WILL NOT TRAIN A STUDENT IF there is no agreement between the student-driver and the Client, and/or co-Client, and/or responsible and/or representative adult, regarding the driver training goal or goals because I cannot hit a target I cannot see or identify.
K. I DO NOT DISCUSS SCHEDULING, SERVICES OR FEES BY PHONE CALL OR TEXT, AFTER MY FIRST CONTACT WITH A CLIENT. I WILL RETURN A PHONE CALL OR TEXT MESSAGE BY MY USE OF EMAIL because verbally discussing detailed contractual legal matters lead to confusion, the dreaded, "But you said....!" with content thereafter that I never said. All decent and reputable businesses that deal with much service, many details and more than a few dollars in fees do business in writing. All decent people know and honor that. Try going to the bank and demanding $500,000 from your account because you said the teller told you that you had one-half million dollars in the bank and you are holding the teller responsible for what he said, so you demand your money, NOW!
L. Unless otherwise arranged, the start location for session one is 3804 Garcon Point Road, Milton, FL 32583, which is one tenth of one mile off of I-10 at Exit 26. This is not my business address. This is a Circle K gas station, grocery store and restaurant. Please park in a space facing the side of the building (Manager's request), enter front door, make an immediate left, take 10 steps and I will be seated on your left. My photo is at www.jodacollins.com . My cell is 850 304-1870.
M. The maximum legal passenger weight for my training vehicle is 800 pounds with no more than 400 pounds on each side of the vehicle and no more than 280 pounds per power/hydraulic seat (front seats).
(1). In addition, if a driver is under 280 pounds but has a body configuration that does not allow the driver to safely fit into my mid-sized vehicle or steer with reasonable safety, it is illegal to teach said individual in my vehicle. I will teach said driver in any insured vehicle other than mine.
N. I do not refund money paid for Registration Fees, Scheduling Fees or any other service already rendered.
P. I do not accept prepayment for unscheduled lessons.
Q. After lesson one, I do allow scheduling of lessons for up to 60-days in advance, without payment.
R. Contracts and/or contract proposals, including fee quotes and service designations, are guaranteed for:
(1). Thirty-days from my (Joda Collins) first email denoting fees by itemization or by reference to my website where fees are found, and
(2). Thirty-days from the most recent payment, and
(3). Ninety-days from the most recent completed lesson.
S. Only the Client (financially responsible person) can cancel, schedule or reschedule appointments because I cannot, legally, incur debt for the Client on the basis of the will of the Driver.
T. The remainder of this Contract does not repeat the above information in sections where said information would apply.
U. I will not serve 4% of the population. Four percent of the population are psychological predators. They include Psychopaths, Sociopaths, Narcissists, the insane, and those with Entitlement Disorder and/or Oppositional Defiant Disorder (despises everyone that tells them, "No", i.e. spoiled brats of any age).
(1). All of these individuals have a mindset that they are special, the center of the Universe, and all others are born only to serve and please them.
(2). They rebel against contracts because they believe they are or should be exempt from laws, rules, regulations, orders, procedures, directives, expectations and/or dictates they do not like.
(3). They leave a path of destruction wherever they go.
(4). For my safety and the safety of those around my vehicle, I do not, knowingly, accept such applicants as students and I terminate service to them if when I later learn they are part of the 4%.
SECTION 2. LIMITED LIABILITY CLAUSES
A. If you would not ride in roller coaster, do not be in a driver's training vehicle and/or during driver's training; in both cases (roller coaster and during training) you are taking an assumed risk at your own risk.
B. You (the Client) and you (the Student-driver) agree not to hold Joda Collins and/or the Joda Collins Driving Academy responsible for any physical, emotional or psychological damage, real or imagined, that occurs during training relative to but not limited to any steering, braking or acceleration that is not associated with a crash and said crash must incur, at least, $200 property/vehicle damage regardless of who is behind-the-wheel, who is steering, braking or accelerating.
C. Physical frailty. I, the Client and/or the Student-driver will not hold Joda Collins CEO or the Joda Collins Driving Academy LLC responsible for any slips, falls, cuts, bruises that occur during the training. If you are not steady on your feet or are not able to get in and out of my vehicle with ease, or physically unable to look over your shoulder to visually clear the vehicle blind spot before changing lanes, you may not use my vehicle for driver training.
D. IF USING THE CLIENT'S VEHICLE.
(1). When, in a client's vehicle, the vehicle owner assumes all liability including all liability that is over and above car owner's maximum insurance limit
(2). Even if we are using a vehicle that is not mine (Joda Collins) I reserve the right to intervene in any way that I think best adheres to traffic laws and/or for our safety. Being the owner or driver of a vehicle that does not belong to me, does not give the driver the right to put my life in danger and keep it there.
(3). If you are using a vehicle that is not the Joda Collins Driving Academy vehicle, the registered owner assumes all vehicle liability no matter who is driving, steering, braking and/or behind-the-wheel, including Joda Collins CEO of the Joda Collins Driving Academy LLC.
E. Under no conditions will a missed appointment or appointments incur any liability in excess of the liability specified in print in my legal documents.
F. I (Joda Collins) do not and will not accept the responsibility for the difficulties that arise because a client and/or driver have not read, have read but do not understand, or have read but cannot remember their contractual commitments but sign the Legal Documents anyway because if people are free of adult-level accountability because they are lazy or incompetent, a contract is meaningless? Nor, will I deny you, your contractual benefits on the basis that I claim to be too lazy to read the contract or lack the competency to understand it. My contracts are easier to understand than the rules of the road. A person that cannot understand my contacts, probably, should not be driving. My contracts take less effort to read than it takes to drive in accord with the rules of the road. Any person that is unwilling to invest the wise effort to read and understand my contracts, probably does not have the fortitude or determination to make the wise effort to drive in compliance with the rules of the road. Shortcuts are shortcuts, and, sadly, some have that personality.
G. EMAILS
(1). Its' eazy two make uh misstake inn ann emale. Anything and everything in any email is null and void (in error) if it is in contradiction to the content of an applicable legal document found on this page (www.jodacollins.com - Agreement page), unless:
(a). The email specifically denotes the email content is in place of and supersedes the Contract(s) and/or legal documents information or my Contract specifically states that certain statements in an email can take priority over relevant statements in the or a Contract.
(2). If the mistake is discovered both AFTER the payment is made, AFTER the training for that payment is completed but within 90-days of the date of the paid for and completed service (training appointment) for which the error applies, and ONLY if the correction would be to the betterment (benefit) of the Client and/or the Student-driver
(3). Mistakes discovered 91 or more days after most recent paid for service is rendered, will not be corrected no matter who would benefit from the correction. Statute of Limitations is 91-days. Everything, except murder, has a statute of limitations.
(4). If you do not get an email reminder by 8:35pm the night before your appointment, there IS a scheduling problem EVEN IF YOU RECEIVED A REMINDER/ CONFIRMATION TWO OR MORE DAYS BEFORE YOUR DRIVING APPOINTMENT. Please call 850 981-3355 or email jodacollins@aol.com to discover the problem so I can try to resolve the difficulty.
(a). Without your phone call or email, I (Joda Collins) will not assume any responsibility or liability, financially or otherwise, for the missed lesson.
(5). Clients are responsible to the check their emails once every 24-hours and one-hour before the appointment becauseI (Joda Collins) will not assume responsibility for the difficulties that occur if a Client does not do this.
SECTION 3. CONTRACT(S) / LEGAL DOCUMENTS, PART TWO.
A. If you do not like something in a Contract, let me know and I will consider changing it. I am more concerned about a meeting of the minds than I am about keeping every detail of my legal documents unchanged. The only things I will not change are my fees. I cannot serve for less and stay in business.
B. The individual that signs this document as the Client must be, at least, 18-years of age or legally emancipated.
C. If after the Client's best efforts to understand the Legal Documents and after my best efforts to clarify them, if confusion remains, I will consider paying for an attorney to explain the Legal Documents, in person, to the Client. This offer is null and void AFTER the Client signs this document.
D. "...23.1% (in the) United States...live with a...mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder." Source: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness
(1). This includes about 4% that fall into the three categories of psychological predators.
(2). In my experience, the majority of the 23.1% seek to do business verbally rather than written form so they can try to manipulate words or invent words not spoken in order to take advantage of others.
E. Sometimes the written Legal Documents are at a reading comprehension level beyond the a client's ability to comprehend. In that case, I will spend as much time as needed to help that client understand his or her benefits and responsibilities and if that fails, I will consider paying an attorney to explain the Legal Documents.
(1). Limiting such conversations to print (email or US Postal Service) allows them to concentrate on one fact at a time for as long as they need to understand that fact, and I am willing to work with anyone for FREE, via email for as long as it takes to clarify matters, one at time, and as long as said inquiries occur before the person agrees to the Legal Documents.
(2). I avoid the confusion, the unnecessary stress, and the drama by limiting my contractual matters to printed format even for those that are not part of the 23.1% or part of those that have a reading comprehension level below the scholastic level of my Legal Documents.
(3). In the United States, ALL reputable business that involve considerable service and more than a few dollars for their service, do business by written contract. That protects the rights of everyone involved. I am a reputable business approved by the Better Business Bureau.. I will not do business on a, "But you said...!" basis. Thank you for not asking me or expecting me to do. For those that clamor against written Legal Documents that identify mutual benefits and obligations, I know they are not reputable people and have no desire to do business with such people.
F. I have no verbal agreements. I do not honor anything that follows, "But you said...!"
G. I do not accept money from a person without having a binding contract with that person and having reasonable evidence that the signature on the Contract is the valid signature of the Client. This is accomplished by having the Client sign my copy of the Contract in my presence. If that is not possible, I have two alternative methods.
H. Payment in any amount is tacit (legally assumed) agreement with all Legal Documents (Contracts) including any email that denotes the fees as long as said fees are in line with the Legal Documents because by law, payment can be considered tacit agreement.
J. If anything in a Contract is changed, the original financial quote can be declared null and void, and if so, a new quote required.
(1). In almost every instance changing the details of a Contract will add additional administration work to me (Joda Collins) and thus, additional, expense, and thus, additional charges.
K. I do expect a person to be gracious towards me if I remind him or her of something in the Legal Documents, he or she forgot but dislikes, did not read, or did read but did not understand because I will not assume responsibility for the failures of others nor hold you responsible, financially, emotionally or otherwise, for my failures.
L. I reserve the right to create and propose a Contract that is different from my on-line/website Contract because special circumstances might exist. However, any concepts, facts or figures in said Contract must be identified as "different" compared to the on-line/website Contract(s).
M. All parties reserve the right to terminate service for any reason, expressed or not. Termination does not relieve any party from any financial obligation except as specified in the Legal Documents.
N. I (Joda Collins) reserve the right to require a signed and notarized paper Contract and full payment in my possession before scheduling any service.
P. All money paid for services not already rendered is refundable if requested with, at least, a one-hour notice.
Q. It is the Client's responsibility to keep the Student-driver apprised of all relative matters. It is the Student-driver's responsibility to keep apprised by the Client of all matters the Client deems important for the Student to know.
Q. I (Joda Collins) will not assume any responsibility, financially or otherwise, except as demanded by civil law, for any ramifications of a driver that drives after sunset with a permit with an issue date of 91-days or less from the training date.
R. I (Joda Collins) reserve the right to ask the client, the parent or spouse of the driver, and/or the student-driver if the student-driver has ADD, ADhD, Autism or anything else becausethat knowledge, in advance, will make us safer during training.You, do not have to answer that question. If you do NOT want me to ask that question, it is YOUR responsibility to X this paragraph out of my copy of the Contract (not just your copy) and confirm your position in an email BEFORE the start of the first lesson. In addition, it is your responsibility, as the client, that I (Joda Collins) X this paragraph out on your copy of this Contract, and secure my signature next to this Xed out paragraph.
S. If you do not know what a 3-in-3 driver is, you are not one. If you are a 3-in-3 driver, a student of the Vocational Rehabilitation, or a student of Families First, skip this paragraph. Otherwise, continue reading. After the first lesson, I will provide a Non-binding Estimate of Future Progress denoting how many more lessons I think might be needed for the student-driver to reach his or her stated driving goal(s), if that estimate is requested and, only if, the Client (if not the same person as the driver) rides during the first 15 to 30-minutes of the first lesson, and only if the Client/Driver is under Contract Six.
T. I have permanent vocal cord damage from severe, near death, Covid19 in December of 2019, so the more I talk, the more likely I will cough but you cannot catch vocal cord damage from a cough. If I put a cough drop in my mouth and stop talking for about 30-seconds, I stop coughing. You cannot catch vocal cord damage from a cough.
(1). I will ask you if you know why I sometimes cough, as a test to see if you read, or carefully read this Contract. The answer is, "I (Joda Collins) have permanent vocal cord damage from Covid19."
U. If you are using any vehicle other than the Joda Collins Driving Academy vehicle, I (Joda Collins) must have a Waiver of Liability signed by the registered owner. The registered owner has two options. (1). He or she can be present at the first meeting and sign that Waiver in my presence, or
(2). He or she can sign the Waiver in the presence of a notary and mail that document to me. If the registered owner selects this (b) option, let me know and I will provide my mailing address. (3). Often, a driver wants to use a vehicle that is not registered in the driver's name. To do so I must have proof that the driver is insured to drive said vehicle, not just proof that the vehicle is insured. This can be done in one of three ways:
(a). Provide a copy of your insurance that states that any driver you, as the registered owner approves to drive the vehicle, is covered by said insurance.
(b). Provide to me (Joda Collins) your name, insurance policy number, vehicle make, model, year and vehicle identification number (VIN), the name and telephone number of your insurance policy carrier. I will contact said company for verification for the contracted fee for this service.
(c). Provide to me the following on the Insurance providers letterhead signed by an employee of the Insurance provider: "The following individual, (name), driver or permit number _____, is insured to drive the following vehicle: Make, model, year, VI number, registered owner and policy number.
W. DISCLAIMERS (1). Nothing in an email, including facts and figures, is valid or authoritative unless said facts and figures agree with my Contract(s). Only Contracts, found on my web site and/or in paper form, signed by all parties are authoritative. It is eazy too make mustake inn uh emale.
(2). Clients are responsible to the check their emails once every 24- hours and one-hour before the appointment. I (Joda Collins) will not assume responsibility for the difficulties that occur if a client does not do this.
SECTION 4: FINANCES/MONEY
A. If you, the Client (financially responsible person), have any questions, just ask via email unless other arrangements are made becauseasking before you agree to the Contract(s) is FREE. After a client agrees to and/or signs a Contact additional inquiry about legal matters, fees, scheduling and/or service is NOT free.
B. Payment, in part or in total, is tacit agreement to all Legal Documents, however, a signed paper Contract in the presence of all signers, unless otherwise arranged, is still required.
C. Cancellation, with less than a one-hour notice, does incur a charge. Check your Contract (Six, Seven or Eleven, whichever is yours) for details.
D. PRICE GUARANTEE
(1). CHARGES/FEES are guaranteed for 30-days from the first inquiry, 30-days from the first email that makes known charges, 30-days from your registered approval of the Contracts, and then 90-days from your most recent lesson. Said price guarantee is per Driver (student), not per Client. For example, a Client with three drivers cannot have me train one driver over a period of six months, then keep the same fee structure for driver two and/or three.
E. REFUNDS
(1). One-hundred percent of money paid in advance for services not rendered and charges not applied by contractual agreement, if requested with, at least, a one-hour notice.
(a). There is a 7% discount for those that do not pay with a card because 7% is the average cost to me for collecting my fees with the use of card. Said 7% fees are NOT refundable as they are for expenses already incurred.
F. I do not accept prepayment for unscheduled lessons. I do allow scheduling of lessons for 60-days in advance, without payment.
G. Payment Policy.
(1). For three-in-three drivers, for all pre-scheduling charge, I accept cashier's check or Visa, MasterCard or Discovery credit or debit card (no cash). Again, if you do not know what a three-in-three driver is, you are NOT one.
(2). If your training is paid for by a company or agency, an email will clarify the financial details.
(3). For all others, I accept, cash, cashier's check or Visa/MasterCard or Discover debit or credit card. Do not, however, send cash in the mail.
(4). I have never had anything lost in the mail, but there may be a first time. Be sure to keep your cashier's check proof of purchase just in case.
(a). Having a proof of mailing does not obligate me (Joda Collins). It is only good faith evidence of mailing and good faith evidence of your envelope being lost in the mail if not delivered. The best way to send your payment is, "Return Receipt Requested." Or, for $38 I will meet you and receive your payment in person. The decision is yours.
H. CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION OR GRADUATION FEE (Certificate is Optional).............................................$19
J. LATE OR NO ARRIVAL FEES (1). Late arrival, beyond 15-minutes, no matter the reasons, including reasons that are not your fault, including Acts of God (no one's fault such as car trouble or a traffic jam), is charged at $1 (one dollar) per minute starting with the first minute, not to exceed the full charge of the lesson, including door-to-door fee, if any, unless the lesson is cut short by the amount of time equal to the late arrival. This is not a penalty charge, but a recognition that life is time and being late is a waste of other people's lives. Time is money because life is limited by time, therefore, time = life and life has financial value.
(2). This fee is paid by me (Joda Collins) to the Client, if I am more than 15-minutes late. My Client's and Driver's time are just as valuable as mine.
(3). If a student's late arrival (for a lesson not canceled in time to avoid charges) is after the scheduled ending time for the lesson, the lesson is forfeited along with the fee, and the fee noted in (1) or (2) above does not apply.
(4). NO SHOW AND NO CALL FEE (a). If a driver misses a lesson and the client does not call or email at least one-hour in advance to cancel, the client is charged $100 for the missed lesson, plus the door-to-door fees, if any. (b). If I (Joda Collins) miss an appointment, and I do not call or email at least one-hour in advance to cancel, the client is refunded the charge, including door-to-door fees, if any, or not charged for the next lesson if there is a next lesson (assuming the next lesson incurs the same charge).
SECTION 5: TRAINING SPECIFICS A. THOSE I WILL NOT TEACH IN MY VEHICLE
In my vehicle, I will not teach students who, consistently, do not or cannot follow simple one-step instructions such as, "Slow down," "Accelerate," "Look over your left shoulder," or "Begin breaking." However, I will consider teaching such students in any other vehicle the driver is insured to drive.
B. THE THREE-POINT TURN
(1). Unless a Driver is enrolled in the Pass the State Exam Course, the three-point turn is not taught unless the Client specifically requests it be taught.
(2). Unless otherwise agreed on and stated in writing BEFORE the approval of the Agreement (Contract), the three-point turn training is accomplished in any other vehicle than mine, wherein the student-driver is insured. However, if the Client changes his or her mind after signing the Contract, the Joda Collins Driving Academy Vehicle is available for parking and/or the three-point turn, under the conditions noted in and for the fee noted in your specified Contract (Six, Seven or Ten). (3). I will teach the three-point turn in my vehicle ONLY after a driver has memorized the steps for the three-point turn well enough to quote them without hesitation or error and upon request.
(4). The three-point turn is an emergency maneuver designed for escape or rerouting traffic when the way ahead is closed or too dangerous to travel.
(1). It is a dangerous maneuver because it involved blocking both lanes of traffic, making turns across an opposing lane of traffic, backing (backing is 500 times more dangerous than driving forward), and possibly blocking oncoming traffic that may or may not stop. Every law enforcement agency recommends that new drivers NOT be trained to do the three-point turn by repetitiously doing so on public roads or in public parking areas.
(a). If a person knows how to use a telephone, they do not have to call the other person over and over to memorize a telephone number.
(b). Memorizing the three-point turn verbally by repeating it over and over is faster and easier because a person can repeat the steps 20 times faster than doing them in a moving vehicle. Repetition teaches. When we teach children the Alphabet, they do not tell us it is impossible because they do not know how the letters for words, how words for sentences, how sentences form paragraphs and how paragraphs create books.
(c). For those that want to learn by muscle memory, it is relatively easy to go through the motions of a three-point turn in a stationary vehicle, just like it is easy to touch the numbers on a telephone without pressing on them or press the numbers with the phone turned off.
(1). To simulate steering go through the motions of steering by allowing hands to slide across the wheel.
(2). To simulate braking, touch the brake with your right foot.
(3). To simulate changing gears, change the gears with you hand above the gear shift knob.
(4). To simulate looking left and right, look left and right.
(5). To simulate acceleration, touch the accelerator with your right foot.
(a). Doing (a) through (e) is learning by muscle memory.
(5). It is 100% the responsibility of the Client to let me know if and when three-point turn training will occur.
(6). Any student of mine that graduates my Pass the State Driving Exam Course and passes the State Driving Exam, except for the three-point turn part of the training, can secure additional training from me at no charge, excluding any door-to-door fees, for up to one-hour in the vehicle the driver used or will be using for the next State exam. This offer is limited to 10-months from the date of the most recent completed driving lesson. Service value only. No cash value. Offer is expired if I am no longer in business.
(7). There are two vehicles that can be used for the three-point turn training; the Joda Collins Driving Academy Vehicle or any other vehicle provided by any other person as long as the student-driver is insured to drive that vehicle.
(8). There are two people that can teach the three-point turn to the Student-driver; Joda Collins, during paid driving time or any other person any other time. I will teach anyone to teach the three-point turn for the standard training fee.
(9). There are two ways to learn to do a three-point turn. One is muscle memory learning where the student does the three-point turn over and over and over and over and over and over and over again and again and again until driver has memorized the procedure by memorizing the body movements (muscle memory). The other way is to memorize the steps before attempting the three-point turn.
(10). I, Joda Collins, will use your vehicle, but not my vehicle, for training a driver to learn the three-point turn by muscle memory.
(11). Here is the procedure the student-driver must first memorize before I will allow a driver to use the Joda Collins Driving Academy vehicle for the three-point turn training.
Slow, right, look, signal, stop.
Look, go slow and turn fast, stop, reverse.
Look, go slow and turn fast, stop, drive.
Look, go slow and turn fast, coast, accelerate.
(12). Here is the procedure if using any vehicle other than the Joda Collins Driving Academy vehicle for the three-point turn training.
Slow, right, look, signal, stop.
Turn, look, coast, stop, reverse.
Turn, look, coast, stop, drive.
Turn, look, coast, accelerate.
(13). For those that find memorization too difficult you can request a free tutoring service. I have the student-driver call at a specified day and time. My secretary will work with the student-driver on the phone for 45-minutes to one-hour. During that time, my secretary will say each word one at a time and the student will repeat each word one at a time. So far, every person that has availed himself/herself to this FREE service was able to memorize the steps within one-hour.
(14). Here is how those steps, found in (11) above, apply to real life.
(a). Go slow, and move to the far right. Look in your outside left rear-view mirror and the over your left shoulder out your door window and the passenger's window. Signal left. Gently stop your car.
(b). Look in your outside left rear-view mirror and the over your left shoulder out your door window and the passenger's window. Reduce your brake pressure just enough that car begins to move about the speed an ant runs or a baby crawls; that is, go slow and at the same time turn your steering wheel as fast as you can to left without slamming the wheel at the steering wheel stop mark. Stop your vehicle before any part of the car, including the bumper goes off the road or over the curb. Put your transmission in reverse.
(c). Look left and right. Reduce your brake pressure just enough that car begins to move about the speed an ant runs or a baby crawls; that is, go slow and at the same time turn your steering wheel as fast as you can to right without slamming the wheel at the steering wheel stop mark. Stop your vehicle before any part of the car, including the bumper goes off the road or over the curb. Put your transmission in drive.
(d). Look left and right. Reduce your brake pressure just enough that car begins to move about the speed an ant runs or a baby crawls; that is, go slow and at the same time turn your steering wheel as fast as you can to left without slamming the wheel at the steering wheel stop mark. Coast which means no brake and no acceleration for five seconds, then gracefully accelerate.
(15). So far, in 17-years as a driving instructor, 100% of all student-drivers that have memorized the steps, knows where their vehicle is in space, and is able to follow directions, have been able to do a perfect three-point turn on the very first try AFTER they have memorized the steps.
(a). I can teach the relationship of the vehicle to other solid objects in space without dry steering.
(16). I do not and will not accept the responsibility of telling a student when he or she will learn the three-point turn. It is 100% the responsibility of the Client to tell me when I am to teach the three-point turn.
(17). If the student-driver cannot learn a telephone number without pushing the numbers on a cell phone over and over, cannot learn the combination number of a lock without opening and closing the lock over and over and over, cannot remember a person's name without writing it down dozens or hundreds of times, and cannot learn (memorize) the three-point turn procedure without doing it over and over and over, then we will need to use any other vehicle rather than mine for the three-point turn procedure or delete the three-point turn from the training goal. There are no exceptions to this. There is no debate.
(18). Parking
(a). I do not use my vehicle for repetitious attempts of driver to practice parking in an effort to memorize the steps while doing. Repetitious parking training (dry steering, that is, steering with vehicle stationary, or fast steering with vehicle barely moving) causes rack and pinion damage to the front end, damage to the power steering, up to 40% greater wear on tires, and puts all of my students in added danger as power steering can fail without notice with excessive dry steering is used.
(b). I will allow my vehicle to used for parking ONLY one time and ONLY AFTER the driver has memorized the procedure in (11) above well enough to quote it without hesitation or error and upon my request.
(c). Once a driver can change lanes safety and do the three-point turn, learning to park is easy. Repetitious attempts at parking are never necessary.
C. OUT-OF-SEQUENCE TRAINING
I will not teach out-of-sequence if the danger level it too high. For example, if a driver cannot drive safely in a parking lot at speeds of up to 10mph, I will not attempt to train that driver on the Interstate. Safety first. All disciplines have a sequence of learning. In math it is learning to add, then subtract, then multiplication, then fractions, then division, then algebra, geometry, trigonometry, then calculus. Crawl, then walk, then run. In math, if the instructor trains out of sequence the student gets an F. In the physical world, if a parent tries to teach a child to run before the child can walk, the child falls down. In driver training, if the instructor tries to teach a student out of sequence, the student crashes the car. I won't do that for you or to you.
SECTION 6: LESSON TWO AND FOLLOWING
IF YOU ARE NOT SCHEDULED FOR MORE THAN ONE LESSON AND HAVE NO NEED OR INTENTION TO TAKE MORE THAN ONE LESSON, SKIP THIS SECTION AND GO TO SECTION 7.
A. Never has a person trained one of my students between lessons without my approval without that effort costing the student skill ability in one or more areas and added more time and expense to the training effort.
B. After Lesson Verbal Report. Most Clients do not want an after-lesson verbal report because they are anticipating an after lesson written report. The verbal report is just a short version of the written report. However,if you want a one-minute verbal report, just meet me at my vehicle when I return from the lesson or be on your way to my vehicle when you see me return and in the process of saying goodbye to the student and changing sides, so I can see you coming because, for several excellent reasons, I do not go to a vehicle or home door to provide a report.
SECTION 7: SCHEDULING
A. The Client is the person that is paying for the training in whole or in part. By law, the Client must sign a PDF copy or a paper copy of the Contract. I do not have PDF. If the Client (financially responsible person) will not be at the first meeting at the start of training to sign the paper copy of the Contract let me know as soon as possible because we need to make other arrangements for signing.
B. I do not schedule training unless the driver verifies or states he/she has a valid license or permit, and the agreed-on payment is received. It is the driver's responsibility to have his/her license or permit with him/her at the time of the training
C. I (Joda Collins) do not initiate rescheduling because of adverse weather conditions that are short of the severity that requires a State or National Weather Advisory. A scary forecast of wind and rain (storm) is NOT a National Weather Advisory.
(1). However, if you (the Client and/or the Student-driver) are fearful due to adverse weather conditions, I do allow cancellation and rescheduling with no financial ramifications (penalties or fees) if I receive, at least, a one-hour notice.
(a). Missing, canceling or rescheduling, for any other reason than fear of adverse weather, requires a rescheduling fee and, in addition, at least, a one-hour notice.
(1). With less than a one-hour notice, there is a fee for the missed, canceled or rescheduled lesson. That fee is revealed in your Financial Contract (Six, Seven or Ten).
D. How to schedule.
(a). When it is time to schedule, please go to www.jodacollins.com and schedule in accordance with directions in the CALENDAR OF AVAILABLE START DATES/TIMES Section.
(b). Your financial contract is either Contract 6, 7 or 11. Your emails identify your financial contract and the details of scheduling fees.
SECTION 8: PROPER STEERING
A. Usually, I teach proper hand-over-hand steering including allowing the wheel to slide through the driver's hands rather than manually steer out of turns, safe and graceful braking and safe and graceful acceleration first. Safety first!
SECTION 9: EMAIL PS SECTION
Many emails carry a PS Section which is an attachment by date to this Contract.
SECTION 10: DISCLAIMER
I, Joda Collins, enjoy good health, however, no one is exempt from getting sick once in awhile. I have been sick for 31 days since I started this business in July of 2008. I was sick in 2014 for nine days with Shingles. I was sick from December 28, 2019 to January 10, 2020 with Covid19. I was sick with a new variant strain of Covid19, from December 8, 2025 to December 17, 2025. I am a one-man operation. If I am sick I cannot teach. Doing business with me means you understand that limitation.
CONTRACT FIVE
Student-driver Contract Dec 2, 2021
THIS CONTRACT IS FOR the Student-driver primarily, however, every person involved is asked to read and approve this.
1. STEERING
A. The #1 behavioral cause of crashing is when a student-driver does not follow the directions of the instructor. That is why I emphasize following my directions, even when the student disagrees with me. If the student only following my directions when he or she agrees with me, then we are only as safe as the student's driving skill. Under that condition, I quit.
B. Because poor steering is the #1 cause of crashing during driver training, until a driver can do proper hand-over-hand steering and allow the wheel to slide through his or her hands to complete standard right and left turns, I reserve the right to keep the driver in a parking lot and/or out of fast-moving traffic no matter how long it takes a driver to do proper steering and allow the wheel to slide through his or her hands to complete standard right or left turns. My estimates of future progress do not include the time it takes a driver to learn proper hand-over-hand steering and allowing the wheel to slide through his/her hands to complete standard right and left turns. If a driver wants to learn hand-over-hand steering on his or her own time for free see Attachment Two, Section Four at the bottom of this page.
C. If a driver cannot, will not or does not use proper hand-over-hand steering and/or cannot, will not or does not allow the wheel to slide through his or her hands to complete standard right and left turns, I will allow a driver to use any form of steering he or she wants if we are using any other insured vehicle besides mine. To the best of my ability, I will keep driver out of any situation that requires normal steering speed to avoid crashing. However, I cannot guarantee that such a condition will not arise in the normal driving experience.
D. The four most prevalent physical causes of crashing that are easy to correct are:
(1). Poor steering. (2). Following too closely.
(3). Unsafe lane changes.
(4). Speeding.
That is why these four things are addressed first.
2. BRAKING A. Stopping without jolting the vehicle or throwing the head of passenger's forward.
B. The ability to use minimal brake pressure to drive no faster than 2mph for 30-consecutive seconds.
C. Under normal conditions, I teach super slow acceleration for many good reasons I will share upon request.
(a). If, after training with me, a driver wants to increase his or her acceleration rate, that is his or her decision or the decision of the vehicle owner. Faster acceleration than I teach, as long as the acceleration rate is within reason, is not in and of itself bad or unsafe driving.
3. DURING TRAINING PLEASE DO NOT DO THE FOLLOWING.
A. Do not reach into the back seat from the front seat. The back of the seat is not built for full body weight.
B. Please do not take it personally when I correct your driving. It is not personal. It is professional.
C. Do not use your cell phone when you are in the driver's seat unless the vehicle is stationary and not in a traffic lane.
D. Do not bring foods, snacks or drinks of any kind into my car for consumption during training (except water in a container with a screw on cap). Please do not chew gum or use candy. If you want know why, go to:
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(a). If you want to stop for any of these things, just ask. The time it takes you to buy them and consume them, within reason, will be added to your driving time, thus no loss in training time to you.
E. Do not make up personal rules of the road that violate the legal rules of the road and drive in traffic by those secret rules.
F. I try to be easy to get along with. Be decent and respectful towards me. I will be decent and respectful towards you.
G. Please do not provide justification, rationalization or argument regarding why you drive poorly or in violation of traffic laws. Confronting or attacking me about your dislike of traffic laws just eats up time, creates a strained environment and does nothing good for either of us.
H. Do not accelerate in a manner that throws my head back or stop in a manner that throws my head forward.
J. If I tell you that you did not do something correctly, do not respond with, "YES I DID!" If I make a mistake that does not put us in danger and is minor, let it pass gracefully. I will do the same for you as long as there is no immediate need for you to be aware of the matter. We cannot do everything at once.
K. During training, please try to not answer yes or no questions with long answers. For example, if I ask you if you see the red light, please try not answer by telling me what a red light means, just say, "Yes," or say, "No." This gives me maximum time for maximum safety if the answer is, "No."
L. Do not slap at or otherwise abuse my vehicle controls. Do not slam my car doors. Treat my vehicle gently. It is an expensive piece of equipment. Thank you. Do not mistreat my vehicle and I will not toss your cell phone around inside the car.
M. If I am standing at your door when you get into the vehicle, please do not close the door. Allow me to close the door. When I am sure you are not a door slammer, I will feel better having you close my car doors.
N. For safety, wear tight fitting lace-up shoes such as tennis shoes or dress shoes and not crocks, sandals, boots, slippers, slip-ons. house shoes or flip flops.
P. Be clean and wear clean clothing.
Q. Do not wear anything that will snag seats.
R. Have your permit or license with you.
S. KINDNESS, PATIENCE AND CONSIDERATION. We live in an increasingly difficult world. The divisions among Americans are many and severe. Customer service is in toilet. The cost of living is out of control. Frustration and hostility increase every day. No one is exempt from these things. Under the pressures of life, I will be as kind, patient and considerate towards you as I possibly can be. If you will do the same towards me, there is every hope that all can go well.
T. If you are a young person and your parents are or your guardian is paying for your training, they are not paying for your training so you can criticize their driving. Just drive safely and show them by your skill what safe driving looks like. Know your place and do not make me an accessory to rudeness or arrogance. If they want your help, they will ask for it. However, parents want to know what you learned, so tell them what you learned without being critical of their driving.
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