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Vital Info for New Drivers - Alabama's New Laws
Hi, and congratulations again if you have obtained your permanent driver's license. The information contained in this post is from the Alabama Driver's Manual 2026 Please take the time necessary to read through the following educational data from the manual as of 2026. I realize that only some of the specific descriptions of driving behavior may apply, yet there is good and helpful instruction, nonetheless. You probably don't need a lot of coaching, but to be sure, in this m

Charles Van Heyden
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Trucker With 5 Million Accident-Free Miles Wins Custom Semi and $50,000 as the 2025 Road Warrior Champion
At Expert Driving Instruction Institute, we will always promote stories about competent drivers and programs that have a proven record of success in lowering traffic collisions. This story is especially memorable since a high percentage of roadway fatalities involve commercial vehicles. To persons unfamiliar with the driving skills of an 18-wheel, 50,000 lbs motor vehicle, this story may very well have no impact. My brother was such a skilled CDL driver, and yet he had severa

Charles Van Heyden
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How To Be a Super Person
WE sometimes experience the sensation or perception that we are super men (women). But, it is true, nonetheless that if a person does this continually and with premeditation he/she will more often come to that conclusion. What is it? Finishing action cycles once started. And, collaterally not starting action cycles without due regard to one’s ability to finish them. A well-known poet penned this phrase in a well- known song: “One should not be where one does not belong.” Tak
C. Van Heyden
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Everyone wants safer traffic on our roads
Everyone I talk to in my area says the traffic is terrible and so are the drivers. Well, what is it going to take-what really is it going...

Charles Van Heyden
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Some of Us Are Lucky
Some of us are not so lucky, some very lucky. I’ve researched and wrote the book The Careless Driver , so that we as a nation could turn...

Charles Van Heyden
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Drivers Should Avoid Tailgating
I am not big on blogging but occasionally I'll post a note to an editor of a local newspaper when I see some bad driver's habit happening many times . This note was published in the Times Daily and the Corrier Journal. I have recently enjoyed the benefit of an exterior view of our Alabamian motorists and their general driving behavior by a road trip to New Hampshire. It is not more reprehensible than that of motorists in other states I visited on the way but is nonetheless wo

Charles Van Heyden
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Navigating the Complexity of Demand for Improvement in the Context of Trump's Iran Bombing Decision and how I see DFI with regards to roadway fatalities world wide.
The decision to use military force is an issue that weighs heavily on a nation's conscience and leadership. In recent days, President...

Charles Van Heyden
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Copy of Above Average Drivers
I was just visiting a local restaurant, and this quote caught my eye: "The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age,...

Charles Van Heyden
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Paying back personal debts / New Year’s resolutions
Many of us have borrowed sums of money from our friends at times of need and we’ve all heard the saying a friend in need is a friend...

Charles Van Heyden
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Above Average Drivers
I was just visiting a local restaurant, and this quote caught my eye: "The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age,...

Charles Van Heyden
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Driving Instruction Begins This Winter
As part of the turning of attention back to stressless and more expert driving this winter, VG Publishing is making available free copies...

Charles Van Heyden
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Attention
Why don’t people put their attention on the sky more often? The reason is that there’s nothing going on usually in that area unless...

Charles Van Heyden
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Thanksgiving and Inventors
I had this idea a few days ago about Thanksgiving. We usually give prayer and thanks to the Almighty for food and shelter, clothes and...

Charles Van Heyden
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Flies, how to rid them from the home
Having had extreme success with riding my home of pesty flies I present for your edification and your pleasure the simple method I have...

Charles Van Heyden
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Copy of Questionnaire: Welcome Florence friends et al.
I started my writing career in the Collier Library at UNA seventeen years ago. Please let us know your thoughts and impressions of the...

Charles Van Heyden
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Why Politicians Are Like Dodo Birds
It's that time of the year for choosing a President. Politicians are like dodo birds because they were never aware that they are going...

Charles Van Heyden
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Some of Us Are Lucky
Some of us are not so lucky, some very lucky. I’ve researched and wrote the book The Careless Driver , so that we as a nation could turn...

Charles Van Heyden
2 min read


Questionnaire: Welcome Florence friends et al.
I started my writing career in the Collier Library at UNA seventeen years ago. Please let us know your thoughts and impressions of the...

Charles Van Heyden
1 min read
Driving Skillfully vs. Braking Too Often Revised
I am resuming my blog entries and for solely my non-fiction work. ALLOW ME TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO A MAJOR CAUSE OF 'ACCIDENTS' ON...

Charles Van Heyden
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Let's Get Very Healthy!
Linkedin and Facebook friends, today I proudly present the third Goodreads Giveaway! I want to give you some information in a book form...

Charles Van Heyden
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