Cleveland, Ohio · Since 2012
Drive it, ride it, haul it, at the speed you can handle.
Dashline is a driving school for every license and every level: first car lessons, teen driver’s ed, motorcycles, Class A and B trucks, and coached days at the track. Learners drive dual-control sedans from BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Cadillac, Lexus and Genesis, or a stick-shift Mustang or Integra, with free pickup across town.
At a glance
Car lessons from
$80
per 60 minutes, automatic. Manual is $10 more.
Free pickup in
Downtown Cleveland, Ohio City, Tremont, Lakewood, Parma, Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights, Euclid
Lesson hours
- Mon–Fri
- 7:00 am–8:00 pm
- Sat
- 9:00 am–4:00 pm
- Sun
- 10:00 am–2:00 pm
What we teach
Four wheels, two wheels, eighteen wheels
Cars & SUVs
from $80
First lessons, teen driver’s ed, road test prep, and sessions in a full-size SUV.
Motorcycles
from $135
A two-day beginner course on our range, then the road, then the endorsement.
Trucks & CDL
from $520
Class A and Class B programs, theory to skills test, in the trucks you test in.
Track & performance
from $295
Car control on a skid pad, coached track days, Porsche and AMG sessions.
Who we teach
Every level, one patient approach
Nervous first-timers
Your first fifteen minutes are in an empty lot. Nobody is behind you, and the instructor has a brake pedal too.
How we teachTeens and their parents
The 24 classroom hours and 8 behind-the-wheel hours Ohio asks of drivers under 18, plus help logging the 50 practice hours at home.
Teen driver’s edAdults who never learned
Plenty of people in their 30s, 40s and 60s start with us. Lessons fit around work: evenings until 8 pm and all day Saturday.
Lessons & pricesNew to driving in the US
Licensed abroad and facing an Ohio road test? We teach the local rules that catch people out: four-way stops, right on red, school buses.
Road test prepCareer changers
A Class A CDL in four weeks full-time or eight weeks of evenings, with help finding an employer to sponsor it.
Trucks & CDLDrivers stepping up
Just bought a three-row SUV, a sports car or a motorcycle? Learn its limits with a coach, before you find them alone.
Track & performance
The fleet
32 vehicles, and every learner car has a second brake
Learners drive dual-control automatic sedans: BMW M340i, Mercedes-Benz C 300, Audi S4, Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing, Lexus IS 350 F Sport and Genesis G70. For stick shift, a Ford Mustang GT or Acura Integra A-Spec with a six-speed manual. A manual lesson costs $10 more an hour, because the clutch takes a toll on the car.
Licensed drivers can book a Cadillac Escalade, BMW X7 M50i, Mercedes-AMG G 63 or Ford Bronco Raptor for SUV sessions, and Porsche, BMW M and AMG cars for the track.
Every vehicle we teach in
Lesson log
How car lessons work, start to finish
Four steps. Most people go from first call to first lesson inside a week; how long to the road test depends on you, and we will tell you honestly.
- Day 1 · about 10 min
First call
Call or send the booking form. We ask what you have driven before, what makes you nervous, which car you want to learn in and when you are free. Then we suggest a plan and a price, in writing.
- Before lesson 1
Permit check
You need a valid learner’s permit (Ohio calls it a temporary instruction permit, or TIPIC) before you drive with us. Bring the card itself. Under 18? A parent or guardian signs our consent form first.
- Week 1
First lesson
We pick you up from home, school or work. The first fifteen minutes happen in an empty lot: seat, mirrors, pedals, steering. Town streets come when you are ready, not before.
- When the log says so
Road test
Your instructor writes up every lesson. When the log shows you are ready, we run a mock road test on the roads around the test site, then you take the real driving test in our dual-control car.
Prices
What people book most
Every price, every package and the pickup rules are published. No booking fee, no fuel surcharge.
Car lesson prices| Service | Length | Automatic | Manual |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single lesson One to one with an instructor. Pickup and drop-off inside the service area. | 60 min | $80 | $90 |
| Long lesson Enough time to get out of town and back: rural roads, a freeway on-ramp, then parking. | 90 min | $105 | $119 |
| Teen driver’s ed course 24 classroom hours and 8 behind-the-wheel hours, the course Ohio requires before a driver under 18 can take the road test. | 24 + 8 hrs | $495 | $535 |
| School car for the road test Pickup, a 60-minute warm-up lesson, the dual-control car for the test itself and a ride home. | 2.5 hrs | $165 | $180 |
Our numbers, and where they come from
- Instructors
- 15
- Cars, motorcycles and trucks
- 32
- Car road tests passed first try, 2025
- 149 / 186
The pass figure is our own count from our 2025 lesson log: students who took the Ohio road test in a Dashline car, and how many passed on the first attempt (80%). It is not a state statistic. Pass your road test in our car, or your next road test prep session is free.
From the instructor’s notebook
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Book a first lesson
Tell us what you need and when you are free. We reply with times and a price before anything is booked.