New route for Driver Z booking
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Manitoba Public Insurance is changing how students sign up for its high school driver education program to prevent gridlock outside insurance offices and its service centres.
Registration for Driver Z — a mix of online, virtual and in-vehicle learning — was previously done on a first-come, first-served basis. All courses for the upcoming term opened on one day, which could create early morning lineups at insurance brokers’ offices and MPI service centres, the public insurer said in a news release Monday. Customers will now be invited to a multi-day registration window.
“This new approach to registration aims to take the stress off parents and students who were having to rush to try and get a spot on the same day as every other eligible customer in the province,” Dana Frazer, vice-president and chief operations officer at MPI, said in the release.
“We recognize that getting a driver’s licence is a rite of passage for young people, and it can also lift heavy burdens off families when an additional driver is added to the mix. We want to make Driver Z registration less intense and help our customers gain access to this valuable program in an organized, user-friendly way.”
The change will be in place for this spring’s courses, and students will be assigned a multi-day registration window in January. Students who want to take Driver Z this spring must sign up as a new MPI customer and pay for the program by Jan. 3. Emails will be sent from Jan. 4 to Jan. 24 notifying customers of their registration window.
Registration windows will be assigned based on the age of the student, with older students placed in the earlier windows, MPI said. General registration will be offered after the registration windows close.
MPI expects more than 2,700 spots will be available in the spring term.
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