Learner logbook
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- Learner logbook
- Lessons with an accredited driver trainer
- When to lodge your learner logbook
- How to lodge your learner logbook
- New Zealand and interstate prior driving experience
- Overseas prior driving experience
Learner logbook
As a learner you are required to complete 100 hours of supervised on-road driving experience, including 10 hours of night driving.
When you are issued with your learner licence, you will receive a learner logbook. Replacement learner logbooks will be available for a fee. If you require a new learner logbook please contact a Department of Transport and Main Roads customer service centre.
The learner logbook should be used to record your hours of supervised on-road driving. All entries will be recorded in minutes (instead of hours and minutes) to make it easier to calculate totals.
Your driving supervisor can be anyone who has held an open licence for at least one year (relevant to the class of vehicle driven). Driving supervisors must not exceed the legal blood or breath alcohol concentration level for the vehicle they are instructing you in.
Your driving supervisor must sign your logbook entry after each session. Once you have completed your 100 hours you must sign the Driving Experience Declaration (form F4464) at the back of the logbook stating all entries are true and correct. You must be 17 years of age when signing the declaration.
If you submit a logbook that the department believes to contain false or misleading information, a six-week deferment period will be applied to you for taking a practical driving test, from the date a completed logbook is submitted to the department. A financial penalty may also be applied for submitting proven false and misleading logbooks.
A supervisor must not verify a logbook entry for the driving session if the supervisor knows the entry is false or misleading. A financial penalty will apply.
Learner drivers and supervisors can also use an online electronic logbook* (e-logbook) system that has been developed by RACQ to record the 100 hours driving experience. Once completed, the e-logbook must be printed out; the declaration signed and the documents lodged through Australia Post in the same way as the hard copy logbook. Alternatively, you may use the e-logbook as a back-up for your hard copy logbook.
You are not required to complete a logbook confirming your 100 hours of supervised on-road driving if:
- your application for an exemption to the logbook requirements has been approved
- you are 25 years of age or older
- you are under 25 years of age, and hold a foreign provisional or open type licence, and need a Queensland learner licence before taking a practical driving test.
Note: The department encourages the completion of the logbook requirements for all learner licence drivers.
Lessons with an accredited driver trainer
There is a special column in the learner logbook for lessons with an accredited driver trainer. One hour of driving with an accredited driver trainer counts towards three hours in your learner logbook. You can record triple time with your accredited driver trainer for up to a maximum of 10 actual driving hours (600 actual minutes, or 1800 triple time logbook minutes). Any further time recorded with your accredited driver trainer is to be recorded in the appropriate daytime or night column as the actual amount of time you spent driving (not triple time).
When to lodge your learner logbook
Providing you are at least 17 years of age, you may lodge your completed logbook as soon as you have completed your:
- 100 hours supervised on-road driving experience requirement
- Driving Experience Declaration (form F4464) at the back of the logbook.
This must be at least 14 days prior to your Q-SAFE practical driving test. You will not be allowed to take your Q-SAFE practical driving test until your logbook has been checked and passed by the department.
How to lodge your learner logbook
You will need to lodge your logbook at an Australia Post outlet at least 14 days prior to your Q-SAFE practical driving test.
Australia Post will:
- arrange for the logbook to be sent to the department for assessment (you are not required to pay for this service when you are submitting a departmental logbook)
- give you a receipt as proof of lodgement of your logbook — retain this receipt as proof of lodgement.
The department will then assess the logbook and you will be advised of the result by your choice of mail, phone, email or SMS.
New Zealand and interstate prior driving experience
Driving experience recorded in an approved logbook from New Zealand or another Australian state or territory counts towards your 100 hours supervised on-road driving experience, including 10 hours night driving experience. You will be required to:
- record the remaining periods of your driving experience in your learner logbook obtained from a Department of Transport and Main Roads customer service centre when you transfer your learner licence
- complete the Prior Driving Experience Application (form F4450)
- lodge your completed learner logbook and Prior Driving Experience Application (form F4450) as well as your logbook from another state or territory or New Zealand at Australia Post.
The department will advise you of the result by mail.
If you have completed 100 hours of driving experience and recorded it in an approved interstate logbook you can lodge this logbook as evidence of your 100 hours driving experience with a completed Prior Driving Experience Application (form F4450) at Australia Post.
Overseas prior driving experience
Driving experience recorded in an approved logbook from a prescribed country (see Schedule 4 of the Transport Operation (Road Use Management – Driver Licensing) Regulation 1999) to a maximum of 50 hours can count towards your 100 hours driving experience. You must:
- have gained that experience while holding a learner licence issued from a country from the prescribed countries list within the last three years
- complete your remaining hours of driving experience in a learner logbook, including the 10 hours night driving on Australian or New Zealand roads
- record your Australian driving experience in your learner logbook
- complete the Prior Driving Experience Application (form F4450)
- lodge your completed learner logbook and Prior Driving Experience Application (form F4450) as well as your foreign logbook at Australia Post.
The department will advise you of the result by mail.
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Last updated 15 October 2009
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