Learning to drive

When you are learning, you must always be accompanied by either:

• a licensed driving instructor; or

• a person who holds a current and valid licence and has held the class of licence specified on your permit for at least 4 years.

A person who has held a current driver's licence for at least 2 years can teach you to ride a moped if you have a moped learner’s permit.

Finding someone to help you learn

For hints on choosing a suitable person to teach you to drive and how to go about learning to drive, read Behind the Wheel.

School Drug Education and Road Aware have produced a brochure containing important information for people supervising learner driver's. You can download this from their website:

Supervised driving guide - a guide for getting more time behind the wheel - pdf 1.5MB

To find a comprehensive list of driving schools and their contact details in your area then visit the Yellow Pages website.

If you want learn to drive a Multi-Combination vehicle, there are now registered training organisations that are authorised to conduct Multi-Combination training and assessment courses.

Standard restrictions for learner drivers

You must display L plates on the front and back of your vehicle when you are driving. The plates must have an L in black on a yellow background. The size of the plate must be 150mm x 150mm.

• The highest speed allowed for learner drivers is 100 km/h or what the road signs indicate the speed should be for the road you are travelling on.
  
  
• Learner drivers can now drive on the freeway, unless the road signs indicate otherwise.
  
  
• Phase 2 learner drivers must accumulate 25 hours of supervised driving experience. They must also take at least 6 months to accumulate this experience from when they pass the practical driving assessment. (Some exemptions apply.) They are encouraged to get this experience in a range of road environments - including driving on freeways. However they are not permitted to drive within King's Park.
  
• All L-Platers must have a zero blood alcohol level at all times when driving.