
Alan Esam qualified as an Approved Driving Instructor in 1981 and was speedily respected as a 1st-class Instructor and communicator. He joined the Department of Transport as a Driving Examiner in 1985 and over the next five years he tested candidates at many S W London Driving Test Centres. He left the Driving Standards Agency as it had then become and founded his own multi-car driving school delivering manual and disability tuition in a specially adapted automatic car.