NO ROAD? NO PROBLEM!



International Training Off-Road Driving Course










In Texas, any self-respecting man with a lick of sense goes to church,
owns a gun, loves his dog and drives a four-wheel-drive truck or SUV. I
was proud of my Nissan Frontier 4X4, despite the fact that I was
probably incapable of driving it in excess of 25 percent of its
capabilities. I had huge doubts about my ability to tackle rugged and
steep slopes, ford heavy streams, negotiate sharply angled side-slopes
and rock-crawl. This was largely because I had concerns about rolling my
vehicle, getting stuck 25 miles from nowhere with a cell phone
displaying zero bars or breaking something that was costly to repair. I
was in need of therapy.
The ability to safely move from point A to point B in rugged terrain is
no laughing matter for military personnel operating in such environments
as South America, Iraq and Afghanistan. The same is true for law
enforcement and rescue personnel operating in the rural portions of all
50 states. If chaos breaks out in a large metropolitan area as the
result of a natural or man-made disaster, major power outage or civil
disorder, I might need to egress to a safer area. In order to
effectively execute my exit plan, I may have to abandon streets and
highways and drive through and over ditches, medians and fields. No
matter how I look at it, there’s no valid reason not to have adequate
off-road driving skills.
As is most often the case, therapy lay in training, which came in the
form of the Off-Road Driving course conducted at the International
Training Inc.’s school located in Dilley, Texas.