Waiting to get your permit can be an exciting time for young drivers. With some of these useful tips you can take the right steps in order to get your license when you turn sixteen. The first thing is for you to get your provisional permit before you do anything else. A license is labeled provisional if the person is under the age of 18. The provisional license carries more restrictions than a normal license that a person that is eighteen and over would have.

1. Young Drivers

2. Waiting to get your permit can be an exciting time for
young drivers.

3. With some of these useful tips you can take the right steps
in order to get your license when you turn sixteen.

4. The first thing is for you to get your provisional permit
before you do anything else.

5. A license is labeled provisional if the person is under the
age of 18.

6. The provisional license carries more restrictions than a
normal license that a person that is eighteen and over
would have.

7. Young Drivers And Restrictions

8. A teenage driver with a provisional driver’s license has a
couple of restrictions.

9. First restriction is you are not allowed to drive between
midnight and five in the morning.

10. The main reason behind this restriction is because young
drivers are considered more dangerous, so it is best to not
let them drive late at night to protect other drivers.

11. Only family members are allowed to ride in the vehicle
during the first six months of your provisional license.

12. After the first six months has passed you are allowed one
passenger, who is not a family member, to ride in the
vehicle you are driving.

13. Once you have had your license for one year you are
allowed up to three passengers, who are under the age of
twenty-one and who are not family members to ride in the
vehicle you are driving.

14. In order to obtain your provisional license or permit you
must be at least fifteen years old and under eighteen.

15. Once a young driver has received his or her drivers permit,
they must follow the restrictions or they could lose their
license.

16. All traffic rules must be followed at all times.

17. You must not have an accident while driving.

18. In order to drive you must have a parent, spouse, guardian,
or an adult twenty-five years or older, who has a valid
driver’s license in the same state.

19. Finally, you must have your provisional driver’s license for a
minimum of six months before you can take your exam to
get your actual driver’s license.

20. How Young Drivers Gets Their License

21. Teen drivers who are looking to get their driver’s license
must be at least sixteen years of age.

22. Also, you must have held your permit in the same state for
at least one year.

23. Younger teenage drivers must also complete a driver’s
education class also referred to as Drivers Ed.

24. There must also be six hours of completed professional
driver training by selecting one of many Texas Driving
Schools.

25. The final requirement is to have 50 hours of completed
practice time with an adult that is twenty-five years of age
or older.

26. The adult must sign off and log all fifty hours of time and
then of those fifty hours must be done during the night.

27. Every day there are many new young drivers that come
onto the roads for the first time.

28. With that many new drivers every day, there is always
someone who is inexperienced on the road.

29. So whether you are old or young it is best to keep calm and
follow the traffic laws.

30. If you can keep a good driving record throughout your time
learning you can save money on insurance and maybe even
get a job opportunity that otherwise may not have been
available to you before.