Tradition

I (Tony Scotti) hesitate to post these types of comments – simply because there are so many and I would be posting them every day. But this one is, at least to this old man, special. It is from a former student, his name is Bob and he is 87 years old. He read an article that Joe and Larry wrote about their trip to Russia and at the time, their upcoming trip to Australia.

This is the post:

“I attended an Executive Defensive Driving Course over 30 years ago in England and our instructor was Tony Scotti.

 It lasted a full week and was very comprehensive and a couple of years later we had a follow up.

 I am now an old man of 87 and still driving and have never forgotten the training  we received.”

At the time of his training Bob was working in Northern Ireland.

What makes this comment different than some of the others is what Bob did not mention, he worked for the same oil company that Joe and Larry conducted training for in Russia and then again in Australia.

This is what is special to me and almost unheard of in the industry. More than thirty years later, VDI is training the same client except the problem is not Northern Ireland it’s Russia, and as it was more than 30 years ago (in fact the year was 1978), the training is “comprehensive”. Comprehensive is defined as a combination of security driving and Executive Protection, but Executive Protection designed (a drum roll please…) to protect executives. Decades later the same program lives on here at VDI in the form of the Solo Practitioner and Surveillance Detection Program.

In closing I offer you Webster’s definition of Tradition – “A set of customs and usages transmitted from one generation to another and viewed as a coherent body of precedents influencing the present”