New logbook apps for learner-drivers may make it harder to falsify driving hours.
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This week Roads Minister Melinda Pavey announced the rollout of three apps – Licence Ready, Roundtrip and L2P – that learners could use to record their required 120 hours of driving.
This followed a trial of the apps earlier this year, which can be used as an alternative to the old paper logbooks.
The apps track each trip via GPS and keep a record of it, via a ‘set and forget’ feature.
Given that the apps will automatically record the distances of each trip, it will reduce the problems of drivers adding trips to paper logbooks that they never made.
Learners can still use paper logbooks if they wish.
While learners can use a combination of paper logbooks and the app, Service NSW will only accept one format when drivers lodge their hours.
Glen Humphries
I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.
I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.
