Learner logbook
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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 Queensland Transport 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.
Lessons with an accredited driver trainer will reduce your 100 hours requirement. A one hour lesson with an accredited driver trainer will count towards three hours in your learner logbook (up to a maximum of 30 hours, 10 x one hour sessions).
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 record declaration stating all entries are true and correct. You must be 17 years of age when signing the declaration. You must then submit your learner logbook by mailing it to Queensland Transport for assessment and verification.
If you submit a logbook that Queensland Transport 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 Queensland Transport. A monetary 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 monetary penalty will apply.
You are not required to complete a logbook or 100 hours of supervised on-road driving if any of the following apply to you:
- Your learner licence was issued prior to 1 July 2007 and not renewed after 1 July 2007.
- You have an approved exemption form.
- You are 25 years of age or older.
- You are under 25 years of age, hold a foreign provisional or open licence and need a Queensland learner licence before taking a practical driving test.
Note: Queensland Transport encourages the completion of the logbook requirements for all learner licence drivers.
New Zealand and interstate prior driving experience
Driving experience recorded in an approved logbook from another Australian state/territory or New Zealand will count 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 Queensland Transport 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/territory or New Zealand at Australia Post.
Queensland Transport 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.
Queensland Transport will advise you of the result by mail.
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Last updated 06 October 2008
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