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March 22, 2015 By VDI Team Leave a Comment

VDI’s Karjackistan 2 – Deja Vu All Over Again!

This week the VDI team delivered our first open enrollment course of 2015 – our 6th training delivery for the year so far – in much the same way we wrapped up our last open enrollment program of the year in 2014 – in the snow! Those who have been through one of our programs […]

Filed Under: news Tagged With: Driver training, evasive driving, evoc, Joe Autera, secure transportation, Security Driving, VDI, Vehicle Dynamics Institute

April 4, 2014 By VDI Team Leave a Comment

You May Never Need It, Until You Desperately Need It…

A simple, effective, inexpensive tool that may save your – or someone else’s – life. What more can you ask for? In our humble opinion, there is no reason why every driver doesn’t have one of these in every car they drive. After all, the last thing you want going through your mind in an […]

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March 8, 2014 By VDI Team Leave a Comment

Line of Sight and Security Driving

We have all had the experience of driving on a major highway and running into stop and go traffic, the first thought you have is that there must be an accident just over the hill or around the bend. But when you get to the top of the hill or around the bend the traffic […]

Filed Under: driving, training Tagged With: Driver training, Joe Autera, Larry Side, VDI

February 13, 2014 By VDI Team 2 Comments

“Taking the Show on the Road” – Mobile Training

This is an interesting read that highlights just one of the many challenges of “taking the show on the road.” Racing to the race: How teams outran the weather to Daytona http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/racing-to-the-race-how-teams-outran-the-weather-to-daytona-021214 We have had the distinct pleasure of meeting and training with thousands of students around the world in our mobile training courses, a tradition […]

Filed Under: driving, training Tagged With: Driver training, Mobile training, VDI

February 6, 2014 By VDI Team 1 Comment

Cross-Border Gang Trained By Mexico’s Zetas Cartel – Taught to kill people traveling inside vehicles

By Joe Autera Interesting read, particularly the last sentence of the second paragraph “…where among other methods they were taught to kill people traveling inside vehicles”. While there are some within the EP field who are quick to debate the value of some older case studies (Herrhausen, Schleyer, Moro) its worth noting that those attacks […]

Filed Under: training Tagged With: Mexico Cartel, VDI, Vehicle Ambush

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Surveillance Detection a Practical Perspective

Surveillance Detection: a Practical Perspective

Recognizing that while the Solo Practitioner approach – where one protection practitioner is responsible for managing the wide range of risks their Principal may face – is not the optimum approach to doing so, it is in fact being effectively implemented far more often and successfully than many in the profession would care to admit, it’s worthwhile to take a closer look at the strategies and tactics which contribute to the effectiveness of the Solo Practitioner paradigm.

Welcome my friend to Karjackistan

Welcome, My Friend, to Karjackistan!

KarjackistanTM is a place where all of the challenges and hazards of driving on the mean streets of cities and towns around the world converge, from errant pedestrians to potential accidents and deliberate ambushes.

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