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This Lubbock Driving Instructor Isn’t Afraid to Grab the Wheel

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DATE POSTED:May 29, 2025
Cindi Newlin during a driving lesson in a Lubbock parking lot on April 21, 2025.Working Life is a monthly column in which Texans talk about their jobs. Cindi Newlin, who is 59, is the founder and owner of Lubbock-based Drive Trainers. She spends her evenings, weekends, and summers helping new drivers become road ready.I’ve taught art and design in public schools for 38 years. Back in 2000 I saw a help wanted ad for driving instructors in the Lubbock teachers’ newsletter: “Great part-time job, $15 an hour, will train.” Two things had recently happened in my life: I had been engaged to get married, but the groom called it off ten days before the wedding, and I was left with all the bills. And I had taken a defensive-driving class where I kept thinking, “Good Lord, I can teach better…

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