Who Is A good Driver to be Used on Safari?

In Uganda, many people do pretend to be good drivers when in actual sense do possess the standard qualification of driving in the country. You should be very sensitive and critical when you are selecting or picking on someone to drive you during your safari. If choose badly, then you might end up not enjoying your safari as earlier anticipated. Always look for the best during your safari and not the worst as this worst things will spoil your safari or tour. There are many good and qualified drivers in the country thus it will shameful to say that you have failed to get a good driver to drive through your safari when you are in Uganda.

Basically, a good driver should be a Ugandan by birth and should be residing within the boundaries of the country. He must have lived in the country for at least 10 years and should be above 18 years of age. This person must be a law abiding citizen of the country and should not in case be found guilty of any criminal offence within the country or outside the country.

Before you decide to hire a car, it is very wise to look for the qualifications of the driver you are going to use on your journey. When assessing the qualification, you should look for drivers with good language skills, a valid and up to date driving permit, good training experience and he should look health. A good guide in this case will be in position to speak several of the local languages within the country. He should ably be in position to communicate in at least 3(three) international languages. He should be having full knowledge of the car you have rented and should ably be in position to drive the both the automatic and manual transmission cars.

Remember you will be in a country which is not you home country. You are highly recommended to get a diver with all the qualities to avoid being embarrassed on the way as you are being driven. You might face a number of challenges like being stopped on the way by traffic officers where the driver will be required to present his legal documents. Failure to do that, that means the car will be confiscated and you will have to pay some money to the traffic officers to allow you continue along with your safari or journey.

Very perfect training is required of the driver who will be taking along   your safari. The training should be about the traffic rules within the country. You should be an expert in the all the traffic rules and signs in the country. This will be part of your professionalism as a good and acknowledgeable driver. As the saying goes, that experience is the best teacher, a good driver should be experienced. Experience should be in the number of years one might have spent when driving. Look for drivers who have driven cars for quiet along period of time.

Not forgetting is that a good driver should have a good appeance. Avoid picking on people which bad appearances as these may be referred to as thugs. Appearance should originate physical structure to the way people are dressed.   To be in position to get a good drive, do not waste a lot of time. Just visit any genuine tour and travel company in the country. They will readily avail you with a good driver who will drive you throughout your safari.