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Welcome to the Carriage Association of America’s Driver Proficiency Program
We hope that your participation in this program will help to increase your awareness and knowledge of driving, how to do so safely and correctly, and earn you a CAA Driver Proficiency Certificate.
In addition to evaluating drivers’ proficiency at the various levels, this program also allows for those interested in becoming driving instructors to accomplish the prerequisites at the levels. This will ensure the standard for traditional driving and horsemanship skills will continue.
Level I:
The basic level (but not for complete beginners) is for those ready to drive away from home. This is a competence evaluation and will confirm that you are doing things safely. This level covers harness knowledge, harnessing and putting to, practical driving, horse care, and general knowledge. Any safe style of driving is accepted. Open to CAA members and non-members.
Road Driving Assessment:
Recommended before driving horses/ponies on public roads and in traffic. Road Driving can be taken on its own without actually accomplishing Level I. However, to take Level II, you must have been successful with Level I and Road Driving. Open to CAA members and non-members.
Level II:
This level is suited to the more experienced driver who participates in some form of competitive driving, and it may include pair driving. The prerequisites for this level are successful completion of Level I and the Road Driving Assessment, followed by additional driving instruction/experience. Typical drivers at this level will be able to drive an unfamiliar horse, work competently in a driving environment with some responsibility, drive competently in company of other horses and perhaps in competition, and look after a group of horses/ponies competently and maintain them over a period of time both in work and at rest. Drivers must be able to drive with the traditional English (one-handed) or Achenbach style of driving. Available to CAA members only.
Level III:
The highest recognition offered this level requires demonstration of horsemanship and driving ability, continuing with unit-based competence. In order to achieve a full certificate for Level III, a candidate must complete all the compulsory Units, 1,2,3, plus any one of the optional Units 4,5, or 6. Candidates will receive credit for all units they complete successfully. Available to CAA members only.
Level III’s Compulsory Units:
1. Training of the Driven Horse;
2. Practical Driving - Single Horse;
3. Vehicles and Harness
Level III’s Optional Units:
Any one Unit is required for the full certificate:
4. Pair Driving - Advanced Level;
5. Driving with Four Reins -Tandem;
6. Driving with Four Reins - Four-in-hand
Level I / Road Driving ($15), Level II ($15), and Level III ($15) Syllabus booklets are available now from the CAA office for the amount shown plus postage of $3.
Evaluation Fees are: Level I (CAA members) $75; Level I (non-members) $85; Road Driving, taken with Level I $30; Road Driving $60; Level II (CAA members only) $75/unit; Level III (CAA members only) $85/unit.
The Carriage Association of America,
3915 Jay Trump Road, Lexington, KY 40511.
859-231-0971, 859-231-0973 (fax), info@caaonline.com, www.caaonline.com
Instructors
Gloria Austin - Levels I, II, III
3024 Marion County Road
Weirsdale, FL 32195
352-753-3062 or 352-408-6788 (mobile)
gloria.austin@fcmr.org
Patricia Demers - Level I
4824 West Ave K-8
Quartz Hill, CA 93536
661-722-2010
carpediemfarm@aol.com
Michelle Dlugoborski - Level I
Florida Carriage Museum & Resort
3000 Marion County Road
Weirsdale, FL 32195
352-750-5500 x249 or 352-537-9910 (mobile)
michelle.dlugoborski@fcmr.org
Deborah Egan - Level I
P.O. Box 110
Sullivan, OH 44880
646-878-5420
dutchharness@aim.com
Kacy Tipton-Fashik - Level I
Florida Carriage Museum & Resort
3000 Marion County Road
Weirsdale, FL 32195
352-750-5500 x229 or 352-409-1398 (mobile)
kacy.fashik@fcmr.org
John Greenall - Level I
268 Kings Hwy at Blood Hill Road
W. Windsor, VT 05089
802-436-2266
john@greenallcarriage.com
Steve Holm - Levels I, II, III
P.O. Box 1459
Stockbridge, MA 01262
413-298-4245 or 413-822-1267 (mobile)
trotoneasy@aol.com
Elizabeth Keathley - Level I
3041 Jim Town Road
Woodbury, TN 37190
615-563-1942
elizabethkeathley@hughes.net
Morris Kerr - Levels I, II, III
1687 Upper Concession
Ormstown, PQ JOS 1KO, Canada
terriker@msn.com
Marsoe Larose - Levels I, II, III
Box 2062
Vancouver, BC V6B 3S3, Canada
604-857-1905
marsoe@attglobal.net
Andy Marcoux - Levels I, II, III
161 Main St Unit 1A
Medway, MA 02053
508-782-1720
andy@coachmansdelight.com
Jane Moody - Level I
35815 Yosemite Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
707-637-3103
tiny_tandem@yahoo.com
Michael Muir Level I
Access Adventure
P.O. Box 2852
Fairfield, CA 94534
707-432-0152
info@accessadventure.org
Terry Pickett - Levels I, II, III
3400 Rock Valley Road
Metamora, MI 48455
810-796-3024
Muffy Seaton - Levels I, II, III
254 Whittle Pond Road
Williston, SC 29853
540-454-1092
fourfleas@aol.com
Jerry Trapani - Level I
PO Box 552
E. Islip, NY 11730
631-277-4967
shadbelly4@aol.com
Melissa Warner - Levels I, II, III
PO Box 195 (summer)
87 Homestead Road
Oldwick, NJ 08858
908-303-3938
14534 SE Kitchen Creek Road (winter)
Hobe Sound, FL 33455
352-205-2975
scotlandsraven@aol.com
Evaluators (see contact information above)
Gloria Austin - Levels I, II and III
Steve Holm - Levels I, II and III
Morris Kerr - Levels I, II and III
Marsoe Larose - Levels I, II and III
Andy Marcoux - Levels I, II and III
Terry Pickett - Levels I, II and III
Muffy Seaton - Levels I, II and III
Jerry Trapani - Level I
Melissa Warner - Level I
CAA Approved Centers
Florida Carriage Museum & Resort
3000 Marion County Road
Weirsdale, FL 32195
352-753-3062
gloria.austin@fcmr.org
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