VIC: full license, and learners

[somerandom]

Have since got my full license (yay, go me..)
How long do I have to hold my full license before I can instruct a learner driver...or is there no waiting period ?

I e-mail vicroads just before, but yeah, didn't think i'd get a response!

[Crossy_014]

in SA its to 2 yeas

not sure bout Vic though

[vsiicalais]

i dont think there is a waiting period. there wasnt when i got my full licence in vic only 3 years ago

[Morton]

I've been instructing learners since the day I got my full ticket. And I'm pretty sure that's legal...

[hsvpunk]

some epople have said 1 year, but i havent read anywhere that there is a waiting period.

ring vic roads and ask,
Emailing them is useless, they send back the same bullshit email and never answer the question.

[Ozzie]

There is no waiting period in Vic.

Once your on your opens, you can even crack a beer whilst their driving. Just keep to the limit

[CommVTS]

There is no waiting period in Vic.

Once your on your opens, you can even crack a beer whilst their driving. Just keep to the limit

pretty sure as an instructor you have to have a zero bac reading.

[Goon]

pretty sure as an instructor you have to have a zero bac reading.

yeah i think i heard the same in qld.

[Tom_1569]

No waiting period at all, aslong as you have a full licence you can instruct a learner driver.

You MUST have a .00 BAC whilst instructing a Learner driver, and they WILL check this at a RBT or if your pulled over. On every occasion mum or the instructor at the time got tested when I was driving and went through a Booze bus, they are very strict on it in Vic.

Also check with your insurance company, RACV for instance will only cover a Learner driver if they instructor is 25 or old and has had there full licence for a certain amount of time. (I think its two years).

[mrhotdog]

omg thats gay, here in SA its 2 yrs, but ive been driving on Ps for 2.5 yrs, i wish there was no period lol

[minux]

No waiting period at all, aslong as you have a full licence you can instruct a learner driver.

You MUST have a .00 BAC whilst instructing a Learner driver, and they WILL check this at a RBT or if your pulled over. On every occasion mum or the instructor at the time got tested when I was driving and went through a Booze bus, they are very strict on it in Vic.

Also check with your insurance company, RACV for instance will only cover a Learner driver if they instructor is 25 or old and has had there full licence for a certain amount of time. (I think its two years).

When did they change the laws? It used to be they could not breath test the instructing driver

Seriously though, how scary is it that we allow a 21 year old to teach a 16 year old in a car?

[hsvpunk]

Seriously though, how scary is it that we allow a 21 year old to teach a 16 year old in a car?

Was going to say the same thing.

[Tom_1569]

When did they change the laws? It used to be they could not breath test the instructing driver

Seriously though, how scary is it that we allow a 21 year old to teach a 16 year old in a car?

lol.... It was changed a while ago, maybe 5 years. Parents use to take there kids to the pub etc and get them to drive home, most likely the reason it was changed.

I personelly think its good a young person can take an L-plater, when I was on my L's mum would never take me for a drive in my car, so getting manual experience was near impossible once my best mate, and my brother turned 25 (insurance), I got them to take me driving, learnt more from both of them, then I did from mum. BUT then you get people like a "certain member" on here who boasts how his 21yr old friend takes him out to do burnouts etc so it definitly has its flaws.

[hsvpunk]

i took my sister for drives when she was still on her L's, but it was only in her car, or my dads car. Never in mine, as im not going to insure anyone else in my car.

[Ozzie]

There is no law on drinking whilst instructing

However it does say on Vic Roads website the instructor must keep to the .5 and under reading.

[Tom_1569]

There is no law on drinking whilst instructing

However it does say on Vic Roads website the instructor must keep to the .5 and under reading.

There you go, I could have sworn black and blue that the instructor also had to be .00 aswell, that was the reason we were given when they asked to breath test mum when she was instructing me.

[Ozzie]

There you go, I could have sworn black and blue that the instructor also had to be .00 aswell, that was the reason we were given when they asked to breath test mum when she was instructing me.

Yeah probebly depends on the cop too. Most of them dont know half the road laws. They dont make them they just enforce them.
It would never hold up in court though.

[somerandom]

Seriously though, how scary is it that we allow a 21 year old to teach a 16 year old in a car?

good thing i'm 24

was slack on getting my P's

[minux]

good thing i'm 24

was slack on getting my P's

It wasnt so much to do with age, but the fact we allow such in-experienced and immature people to teach kids control of such a deadly machine.

I'd really love to see learners not able to drive on a road until they have had instruction from a professional, then and only then should they be allowed on the road with other people.

[somerandom]

To an extent, it probably is best not to be able to allow certain people to teach people that are on their Learners, but some people would be finding it hard to get the money to pay for an instructor, or perhaps, limited to a person, or have no one to teach them at all.

good thing they don't bring in power restrictions for learners, then no one would get their licenses anytime soon :P

besides all that, i'm getting sick of the knee-jerk reactions when it comes to bringing in new regulations. Something happens, and the media have a slow day, they will publish it and it gets the wrong attention. 90% of it's going against a certain license group

the only I would like to see, I guess.. would be some kind of 'advertisment' perhaps? would have to be voluntary(as apposed to mandatory, like some would like to see) defensive driving courses, with or without funding by the government of some sort, even going to a open day race track for a day.. I know I did, and my confidence and driving improved alot, right in time for my test a week later

[shiftySLE]

There is no waiting period in Vic.

Once your on your opens, you can even crack a beer whilst their driving. Just keep to the limit

No waiting period, unless it changed there is also no restriction on driving a manual if you got an auto license and dont crack a beer, you are not allowed to have open alcoholic drinks while the car is moving, driver or passenger.

[PaRaDoX]

When did they change the laws? It used to be they could not breath test the instructing driver

Seriously though, how scary is it that we allow a 21 year old to teach a 16 year old in a car?

Yep. i teach them, *into first* *clutch in* *foot to the floor on the accelerator* *drop clutch* *hold on*

i drove my brothers GTO monaro when i was on my L's many years ago.


i reckon as people get older they forget how to drive the proper way pick up bad habbits, forget the road rules and kinda make up their own way to drive, just my 2c anyway

[Ozzie]

No waiting period, unless it changed there is also no restriction on driving a manual if you got an auto license and dont crack a beer, you are not allowed to have open alcoholic drinks while the car is moving, driver or passenger.

Isnt there a 5 year waiting period on an open auto to be able to drive a manual?

[Stressball]

there is also no restriction on driving a manual if you got an auto licens

What? Are you saying you can drive a manual on your auto-only licence? Coz if you are, where did you get that from??

EDIT: Unless you meant learning in a manual on your auto-only learners. Up here in QLD you can learn in a manual as long as your instructor holds an open manual licence for more than 12 months.

[JBDrifter]

What? Are you saying you can drive a manual on your auto-only licence? Coz if you are, where did you get that from??

EDIT: Unless you meant learning in a manual on your auto-only learners. Up here in QLD you can learn in a manual as long as your instructor holds an open manual licence for more than 12 months.

In VIC the auto only restricted licence only applies whilst on P's. Once you obtain your full licence it is open to any transmission.