American Driving Society Inc.

06/22/2026

We had a productive ADS Licensed Officials Clinic this weekend at the Midwest Carriage Festival! Pictured from left: Tammy Carlo, clinician Dana Bright, John Freiburger, clinician Jim Thomas, Jody Cutler, Paula Moffett, and Gregg Cutler. Thank you to Michele Harn for hosting us!

06/22/2026

I am sorry to report that despite big improvement over the weekend, our website is working poorly again this morning (with minute+ load times and Gateway errors). We immediately reported the issue and asked our host, Club Express, for an update. This outage is effecting most, if not all, of their thousands of websites.
Because our email blasts run through our website (which isn't functioning reliably), a Facebook post is the best way to reach our members to give you updates.
Thank you for your patience as we urge our host to develop a viable solution,
Abbie Trexler
ADS Executive Director
*edit: if there is something you need on our site that you are unable to access, please email us at [email protected] and we will do our best to provide you with documents.

06/19/2026

Thank you to Dana Bright and Jim Thomas for teaching the ADS Licensed Officials Clinic for Pleasure Driving and Dressage this weekend at the Midwest Carriage Festival! Here they are reviewing measurement procedures. Thank you also to Michele Harn for generously organizing this clinic at her event.

06/18/2026

This is a friendly reminder that the ADS Office is closed tomorrow, June 19, for the Juneteenth holiday. (And we’re cautiously optimistic that the website seems to be functioning at full speed this morning)

06/16/2026

June 16 website update for ADS Members:
Despite a few hours of reprieve last night, we’re back to very slow load times on our website as of mid-morning on Tuesday. Our host company assures us that they are working around the clock to resolve the issue and have made progress, but they still have more work to do. We’ll keep you updated as we know more.

06/16/2026

We’re back up at www.americandrivingsociety.org! Thank you for your patience as our developers navigated an outage.

06/15/2026

ADS Members: What is your favorite activity your local driving club has sponsored or hosted? Please share the club and event name, and what made it a memorable experience for you.

06/12/2026

June 15 update: It’s still running really slow. Our provider assures us that they are all hands on deck to try to resolve this issue. We are sorry for the inconvenience!

Our website host company is experiencing an outage and subsequently the ADS website is running very slowly. We are sorry for the inconvenience and have been assured that the company is working to resolve the issue. Thank you for your patience!

06/01/2026

Join us for the 2026 ADS Annual Meeting Weekend featuring International Four-In-Hand Driver & Clinician Koos de Ronde!


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