Permit/liscence question

[WayFast84]

Do you have to have your permit for a full year before receiving your liscence? Or If say you take drivers ed 3 months after your 16th birthday, then get your permit, and then you turn 17 can you get it? or does it have to be one year from ur permit?

[project89]

heh its been so long, but i got my permit in school when i was liek 16.5 and got my lisecnce at 17.but im pretty sure all the permit and lsic9ence laws have changed since i had goten mine.isnt it like 17 for permit and 18 for liscence now

[V]

(based on when i got mine)
you need your permit for at least 3 months before you can get your license. I only had my permit for like 3.5 months before i turned 17. I dont know how it works now with the GDL requirmemnts, but id assume the permit parts are the same.

[WayFast84]

heh its been so long, but i got my permit in school when i was liek 16.5 and got my lisecnce at 17.but im pretty sure all the permit and lsic9ence laws have changed since i had goten mine.isnt it like 17 for permit and 18 for liscence now
Every one keeps saying that! :x I want to see it on the njdmv thingy :mad:

[project89]

check the dmv website im sure its on there

[V]

http://www.state.nj.us/mvc/cit_permits/d_gdl_special_learner_permit.html

it gets confusing. but from what i read, it seems you need your permit for 6 months if you get your permit at the age of 16, then at 17 you go for the GDL permit, which just limits when you can drive, how many passengers, etc. then 6 months after you turn 17 you can go for the full license. If you ahve any questions find a phone number and call, opr call a drive school, or even just go to a local MVC and ask.

[Tsar]

i had to wait exactly a year to get my lisence, after i got my permit

[WayFast84]

i had to wait exactly a year to get my lisence, after i got my permit
werent u in florida at the time though?

[Tsar]

werent u in florida at the time though?
i moved to florida after i turned 18

[formulaMARK]

I think you have to have your permit for 6 months. I wasalmost 17 when i got my permit then i had to wait 6 months after that.

[oh one ls1 SS]

u have 2 years before u can get ur permit.. ****s probally gunna change again by the time ur old enough

[Tsar]

i take it back, you have to wait 6 months after you get your permit to the your lisence. i went on dmv web site its pretty self explanatory if u read it.

[enRo]

From how it was when I got mine, if you want your permit when your 16, you have to go to a driving school, and you get your restricted liscense at 17, then the full liscense when ur 18 (or 1 year after you had the restrcted type) ... but i didnt bother with the school thing cuz once u turn 17, all you have to do is pass the permit written test and wait 6 months after. I didnt get my liscence until i was 17 1/2 . Im sure its changed since then.

[jola]

i'm 19 now, and when i got mine, it was the first year with the new laws and stuff. for me, you needed the permit for 6 months before you could take the test and get your license at 17. then another year before you could get the full license.

[Savage_Messiah]

Hey guess what kid, there's a new law takign efect for people born in i think '88 or '89 and after... 17 is permit and 18 is license.

[Tsar]

Hey guess what kid, there's a new law takign efect for people born in i think '88 or '89 and after... 17 is permit and 18 is license.
:owned:

[DieselKickYoAss4Sure]

if you dont go to drivers ed cant get permit til your 17 and have to wait 6 months if you do take driving school you can get permit when your 16 and have to have it for six months then get licence and thats what i did. driving school was like 250 bucks.

[Savage_Messiah]

Driving school/driver's ed was a junior year class for 1 quarter in high school for me... it's not like that everywhere?

[oh one ls1 SS]

sophmore year for me (i think)

[PBodyGT87]

driver's ed was a class in school, and driving school was seperate from school, and thats when you tool the road driving lessons.

Anyway, if you take driving school (6 hours of on-the-road time) you can get your provisional license after 6 months of having your permit, but the catch is, you must be at least 17 to have your provisional. So when you take your permit test, you want to be 16 and half, otherwise, you will be waiting a year.

However if you dont go to driving school, then you must have had your permit for a year before getting your liscense.

For instance, I got my permit when I was 16 and a half. I didn't go to driving school, so i waited a year before getting my license (so by that time it was 6 months after my 17th birthday). It wasn't until after i got my license that my dad found out that you can get a discount on car insurance if you go to driving school, so i actually went after i already had my license. But had I gone while i still had my permit, i could have gotten my license on my birthday, instead of 6 months later.

[PBodyGT87]

In short: Must be at least 17 to be elligible for our first license no matter what.
6 months after permit if you have taken 6 hours of on-road time with driving school, (as well as taken drivers ed in school which is a school requirement anyway)
One year after permit without on-road Driving School.

[Savage_Messiah]

got it, nevermind im dumb/cant remmeber that ancient history :D... I had that driving school too, i think high schools used to do it back in the day but not anymore

[oh one ls1 SS]

got it, nevermind im dumb/cant remmeber that ancient history :D... I had that driving school too, i think high schools used to do it back in the day but not anymore

the aggressive driving drivers school? i hadda go to that when i was 17 lol waste of my time!

[WayFast84]

Hey guess what kid, there's a new law takign efect for people born in i think '88 or '89 and after... 17 is permit and 18 is license.
Prove it.

[01ws6TA]

hes right they passed that a few months ago my sister was telling me they gave her some letter about it (she was just in drivers ed in school) i believe it starts for 1990 or sometime after october in 1989 because she can get her license when shes 17's and she was born october of 1989.

[Tru2Chevy]

Prove it.

Read the MVC link above. You can't get a full and unrestricted license until you are either 17.5 or 18.

- Justin

[BigAls87Z28]

Wait...you can get your permit without going to a driving school?
I remember that we had drivers ed in HS, then we passed the test. You took your testing stuff and you called the driving school. I drove 6 hrs in a little sunfire for about a week and a half, and then I had my little paperwork signed authorizing my permit. That was like 3 weeks after my bday, so I waited a whoooooooole year before I could drive on my own.

[Tru2Chevy]

It used to be that if you got your permit before you turned 17 you had to take 6hrs behind the wheel and you had to wait 6 months to get your license. Once you turned 17 you could just get your permit by passing the written test, and then you could get your license as soon as you wanted.

I got my permit after I turned 17, took the 6 hours of behind the wheel anyway (for the ins. discount), and got my license exactly 3 weeks after I got my permit.

- Justin