Commercial & Corporate Courses
Adventure 4WD has been responsible for driver development and training project management, for many commercial organizations since its inception. Our clients have included those from mineral resource industries, the agricultural and horticultural sector, engineering and the vehicle manufacturing industry, as well as State and Commonwealth Government. In fact Adventure 4WD has supplied South Australian Government with 4WD training courses since 1997.
In every case we've had the flexibility to tailor a driver-training package to suit their individual needs, providing relevance and appropriate outcomes, satisfying Occupational Health Safety and Welfare requirements. The illustrations below represent our core training packages and can be modified to suit your requirements. For group bookings we offer a range of discount incentives to encourage and reward repeat business.
Introductory 4WD (1 Day)
For government or commercial drivers of 4WD vehicles with little or no experience, this one-day practical is of immense value. We analyse the fundamental differences between passenger cars and 4WDs, look at daily maintenance issues and learn the importance of the 4WD system and its operation, before applying that knowledge on the tracks found at our training grounds.
- Practice daily maintenance procedures; identify and check all fluids and filters under the bonnet, reduce operational and service costs
- Check tyre pressures and condition, change a wheel using vehicle jack and tools
- Adopt correct posture and visibility behind the wheel, access all controls
- Understand correct operation and implementation of the 4WD transmission
- Learn about vehicle placement on tracks, correct usage of gears and range, engine braking, throttle control, minimal clutch usage
- Understand suspension limitations, wheel articulation and ways to maintain traction
- Better "read" the track conditions, adopt hazard recognition and risk minimization strategies
- Practice common breakdown and recovery situations
- Become a more confident and astute driver
- Driver fatigue management
Course notes will be provided. Assessment is undertaken in written and practical forms. Appropriate learning outcomes are spelt out and positive competencies will be achieved.
The training can be delivered overseas, in regional areas of Australia or ex-Adelaide.
Price per trainee $290 (AUD) delivered ex-Adelaide, conditions apply
SA Government employees should refer to the SA Government/FleetSA intranet site for current contract rate pricing or POA.
Advanced 4WD (2 Day)
As with all of our commercial courses, the core components of the advanced training forums are designed and tailored to replicate, your typical working day. Our standard advanced course is a two-day affair, covering a wealth of subject matter useful to any 4WD operator travelling independently or with colleagues in remote country. Expect difficult terrain, challenging breakdown and recovery situations, taking advantage of genuine bush trails and events as they unfold, by design and by chance.
- Plan and prepare for your workplace journey
- Understand the risks of long-distance driving & driver fatigue
- Deal with variable road conditions
- Practice defensive driving skills including safe braking and discover ways to enjoy enhanced stability
- Change a wheel using best practices designed to reduce back injuries and ensure your safety
- Build on your existing knowledge base
- Use both high and low range 4WD in varying terrains, including rocks, sand, gravels, mud, steep hills and deep gullies
- Understand important vehicle handling issues, side-sloping, steep descending and ascending, appropriate use of engine torque and vehicle traction
- Tackle genuine breakdown and recovery occurrences using typical tools at your disposal, think through the difficulty and come up with a solution
- Make comparisons between differing vehicle makes attending the course
- Increase your confidence in your own skills and your trust in the vehicle
- Learn a lot more about your country
Course notes will be provided. Assessment is undertaken in written and practical forms. Appropriate learning outcomes and positive competencies achieved.
The training can be delivered overseas, in regional areas of Australia or ex-Adelaide. Accommodation and meals can be provided, POA.
Price per trainee $695 (AUD) delivered ex-Adelaide, conditions apply
SA Government employees should refer to the SA Government/FleetSA intranet site for current contract rate pricing or POA.
4WD Defensive (1 Day)
Highway and transit leg drives are where the greatest exposure to risk lies for a commercial traveler. This one-day program reveals the nature of 4WD usage and the mystery of vehicle incidents, why it is that drivers run off the road, come into contact with animals or other road users and describes the best ways to avoid such incidents. A comprehensive practical day-trip on both bitumen and dirt roads, reinforces and builds on existing roadcraft knowledge, to make for better drivers.
- Be conversant with the vehicle used; know 4WD engagement, the differences between high and low 4WD
- Understand the effect that poor load placement has on vehicles
- Know your vehicle's weight, height and handling characteristics in differing situations
- Increase your view of the road; look for hazards and risks before they find you
- Practice better roadcraft; mix in with other road users more effectively and obviously
- Drive on both bitumen and dirt road surfaces and know where the traction is
- Practice threshold braking techniques on dubious dirt roads; keep the car straight!
A must for all commercial operators of 4WDs! Course notes will be provided. Assessment is undertaken in written and practical forms. Appropriate learning outcomes and positive competencies achieved.
The training can be delivered overseas, in regional areas of Australia or ex-Adelaide.
Price per trainee $350 (AUD) delivered ex-Adelaide, conditions apply
SA Government employees should refer to the SA Government/FleetSA intranet site for current contract rate pricing or POA.
4WD Towing & Trailering
Commercial users of 4WD vehicles often find themselves using trailers to ferry materials to and from worksites, often carrying considerable loads. This one-day practical measures loads, load placement, trailer application and suitability, as well as driving tasks across all road surfaces. For every difficulty that might be expected in a single vehicle situation, it becomes doubly troublesome once a trailer is attached!
- Measure trailer length and vehicle length, drawbar design, placement and height
- Examine the hitch's articulation; the electrical connections for lights and brakes
- Measure efficiency of trailer brakes; know weights permissible under tow
- Tyre pressure and construction, appropriateness for tasks
- Look at load distribution, security and placement
- Practice reversing on door mirrors, use of gearing to maintain control
- Use vehicle and trailer in 4WD conditions, on dirt roads and highways
- Overtaking capability under loaded conditions
- Keeping it straight under brakes
Course notes will be provided. Assessment is undertaken in written and practical forms. Appropriate learning outcomes and positive competencies achieved.
The training can be delivered overseas, in regional areas of Australia or ex-Adelaide.
Price per trainee $410 (AUD) delivered ex-Adelaide, conditions apply
4WD Safety & Welfare Workshop (1 Day)
This one-day theory-based forum is designed to focus on key areas of vehicle usage that have been noted contributors to vehicle incidents and injury. It is a program driven by the experiences and recall of individuals attending, using past driving histories for illustrations that are relevant to the discussions. It canvasses time management, current lifestyle, driver fatigue, road rage, hazard recognition, vehicle breakdown, accident management and more.
- Examine lifestyle impacts on working week
- Illustrate poor work practices; effects on time management and driver fatigue
- Recognise the onset of fatigue and how to deal with it
- Learn how to defuse road rage events; take a different approach
- Tackle breakdown situations confidently when you're miles from home and help
- Implement a 5-step plan for accident management
Trainees are expected to complete homework assessment tasks. Appropriate learning outcomes and positive competencies will be achieved.
The training can be delivered overseas, in regional areas of Australia or ex-Adelaide.
Price per trainee $350 (AUD) delivered ex-Adelaide, conditions apply
For land managers and industry field workers all-terrain-vehicles (ATVs) offer great mobility and greater productivity when faced with areas that are inaccessible to larger wheeled vehicles. This one-day program delivers excellent advice and plenty of time to practice the challenges of off-road riding in a genuine field environment. With a heavy emphasis on equipment and personal preparation, gradients and other hazard recognition, you'll amass a wealth of skills to make for a safer workplace.
- Pick and pack the essentials for the day; safety gear and work tools
- Preparation tips and tricks, making the vehicle ready via daily inspection
- Practice the start-up regime for simple operational procedure
- Using 4WD; when and where is 4WD necessary and what are the advantages
- Using body-mass to your advantage; turns and gradients made easy
- ATV no-nos; fast-facts for incident prevention
Course notes will be provided. Assessment is undertaken in written and practical forms. Appropriate learning outcomes and positive competencies achieved.
The training can be delivered overseas, in regional areas of Australia or ex-Adelaide.
Price per trainee, $420/day (AUD) using client's ATV (ex-Adelaide) conditions apply
Team Training & Development Forums
If you're looking for an innovative approach to fostering the personal development of your staff and building trust and networking throughout your organization, then these special Adventure 4WD events may be just the ticket. Any professional group can benefit from these forums conducted over a weekend or longer, in stunning locations across the State and across the country.
We'll organize the transportation if you have none, the accommodation, the wining and the dining and the daily activities - from challenging 4WD trail driving to bushwalking, skydiving to abseiling, mountain biking to horse riding, whatever the need, whatever the requirement, Adventure 4WD can design a package to suit your needs and deliver the right outcomes.
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Excerpts from Team Training & Development ForumsXtremeXperience transcript from Holden Overdrive Magazine - Feb 2002Xhilarating IncentiveSales incentive program rewards top performance and they don't come much better than this!Sales staff who 'Xcelled' at selling new Holden light commercial and recreational vehicles between September and October received an 'Xcellent' reward in the form of an 'Xciting' four-day off-road adventure in the spectacular Flinders Ranges.
Dubbed the 'XtremeXperience', this fabulous incentive program allowed eligible sales consultants to accumulate points towards their personal score for sales of Rodeo, Frontera, Jackaroo and Combo models over the two-month period. The highest ranked sales consultants within 6 Masters Groups received invitations. With everything taken care of including return airfares, comfortable accommodation, superb meals, lots of refreshments and great entertainment, they were treated to four fantastic days.Wilpena Resort was the base for the stay with 'Xcursions' heading out to The Woolshed, Willow Springs Station, Chace Ranges and Mt. Caernarvon, the highest vehicle accessible point in the Flinders Ranges.
And it wasn't simply a chance to 'Xperience' the sights of this rugged outback area, it was also an opportunity for some first-hand 'Xperience' of the advantages of Holden's 4WD range. Formal training sessions showed how they stacked up against the opposition and gave some practical steep-grade driving tuition using LOW range etc.A chartered flight was taken overflying the Flinders Ranges (taking in Wilpena Pound and the Bunkers and Chace Ranges). This gave a great perspective of the land and tracks that were driven through.As 'Xpected' all those who attended enjoyed four days of fun and 'Xcitement' that won't soon be forgotten, with the 'Xperience' set to 'Xcelerate' them into super sales mode for the future!
Fifteen journalists plus support staff from Dunlop and local organisers Rally Services accompanied thirty-five lucky winners. Flying in from Germany in mid-winter to the Australian outback in mid-summer, didn't seem to faze them one little bit, pumped up for two weeks of fun in the sun!
Our link in the chain was to provide accommodation, entertainment and dining somewhere between the Flinders and Broken Hill, all with an outback flavour. As the Cup route headed south towards the Victorian coast before running up to its finish in Sydney, the participants needed a genuine bush experience.We created a comfortable overnight stay using a local working sheep station in the Olary Ranges, erecting a tent city to house half of the travelling team, with the others under roof in the shearers quarters. Fuel was needed for the vehicles prior to them setting off next day and we organised a tanker to replenish dry tanks as they arrived at day's end.
With everyone accounted for after navigating their way through the ranges and across station country tracks, the evening's proceedings got underway with a bash held in the shearing shed.
With plenty of dust quenching ales, fine wines, a brilliant barbeque and a spectacular sunset, the scene was set for the evening's entertainment, with some great covers belted out and some traditional aboriginal sing-alongs.
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New Vehicle/Product Launches
Adventure 4WD is well versed in program management for new vehicle launches, successfully administering drive and evaluation days for numerous manufacturers in the last decade. We'll design safe drive routes that reveal the best the products have to offer, lend authoritative staff to guide those attending in the correct usage of the vehicles, provide all catering, meals and drinks, as well as accommodation and any other support that might be required. Our knowledge of Outback and coastal South Australia is considerable, sample location illustrations are available from our extensive 35mm transparency library.
Broadcast Quality Film Production
Our television production arm can be engaged for mini-documentaries, promotional and training films or television commercials, using the same professional crew and production facilities responsible for the national 4WD series, "Beyond The Bitumen". All work is shot using SP or Digital Betacam, or DV Cam format and assembled on digital AVID suites, professional sound mixed in-house too. Graphics and animation by professional designers can be incorporated into project vision. Quality script development and presentation is provided by Adventure 4WD's David and Rose Wilson, Australia's authoritative commentators on 4WD usage and remote touring.
Beyond The Bitumen™
Specialist Consultancy
Adventure 4WD offers its extensive knowledge of the country and 4WD usage in the future development of the industry. Whether it's the creation of a new track and trail system, GPS mapping and track design, publicity and promotion or engineering development and testing assistance for new products, we'll have the expertise you require.
"Captain's Choice - Lake Eyre Adventure 2000"
On a number of Sundays during the second half of the year, David was invited to chaperone fifty clients from the Melbourne travel company - Croydon Travel on an Outback adventure with a difference, flying to Birdsville and back seeing the spectacle of Lake Eyre in flood.
With an extensive knowledge of Outback South Australia, David was the ideal choice for the job, reveling in the experience of sharing his stories of pioneering spirit and Aboriginal dreaming.
His full story of the day's journey can be found under "The Good Oil" sub-heading in the Bush Sense listing -
