Arizona Graduated Driver Licensing

Graduated INSTRUCTION PERMIT Requirements

Teen must be at least 15 years and 6 months old. Teen and parent must provide necessary application documents. Teen must pass written and vision tests. Teen must have a licensed driver who is at least 21 years of age seated in the front seat next to him or her at all times.

Graduated DRIVER LICENSE Requirements

Teen must be at least 16 years old. Teen must hold the class G permit for at least six months. Teen must have completed 20 hours of supervised, behind-the-wheel daytime driving practice and 10 hours of supervised, behind the wheel night time driving practice–a total of 30 hours–before applying for graduated driver license. For the first six months, a teen with a graduated driver license cannot drive between the hours of midnight to 5:00am unless: A parent or legal guardian who has a valid driver license is sitting in the front passenger seat, The teen is driving to or from a sanctioned school sponsored activity, sanctioned religious activity, place of employment, or family emergency. Teen with a Graduated Driver License shall not drive a motor vehicle containing more than one passenger under the age of 18 on a public highway, unless: The passengers are the teen driver’s siblings or The teen driver is accompanied by a parent of legal guardian with a valid driver license and occupies the front passenger seat.

NOTE: If the teen driver has no outstanding extensions of the restricted driving period or suspension of driving privileges during the completion of the first six months of restricted driving, the teen may drive without restriction until eligible to apply for a Class D driver license beginning at age 18. Motorcycle CLASS M PERMIT or DRIVER LICENSE Requirements

Teen must be at least 15 years and 6 months old. Teen and parent must provide necessary application documents. Teen must pass written and vision tests. Teen must have 30-hours of supervised practice or successfully completed a certified motorcycle safety course. The 10 hours of nighttime driving is waived.

Motorcycle CLASS M PERMIT or DRIVER LICENSE Requirements

Teen must be at least 15 years and 6 months old. Teen and parent must provide necessary application documents. Teen must pass written and vision tests. Teen must have 30-hours of supervised practice or successfully completed a certified motorcycle safety course. The 10 hours of nighttime driving is waived.

What is Arizona Graduated Driver Licensing?

What is Arizona GDL? Arizona Graduated Driver Licensing is a system for phasing in on-road driving, allowing beginners to get their initial experience under conditions that involve lower risk and introducing them in stages to more complex driving situations.

Take some time to watch the Young Drivers video here. See if your teen likes this video. If they do, they will love our Arizona graduated driver licensing program.

We begin with combining the in-class with the behind-the-wheel training process concurrent with one another. Then we add more hours behind-the-wheel to give the new drivers an opportunity to experience all four seasons and weather conditions under a controlled risk factor. We take away the 6 hour driver training clock and base achievement and graduation on performance, skill and experience.

Remember when we were trying to teach our new teenagers as if we were traveling on a two-lane dirt road at 35 MPH, when our average traveled speed in Arizona exceeds 55 MPH on a six-lane highway? Most families had a single vehicle in the fifties and sixties, and then to two vehicles in the seventies. The days of driving on weekends with mom and dad for the first year or two is over. In today’s hectic schedules, we are not allowing ourselves time to protect our Arizona teens and teach them to drive as we should be. Parents need to realize that as the times change we must keep pace with that change.

Our driving generation, 35 to 50 years old, will be remembered as the worse driving generation in the history of the vehicle. We average 40,000 fatalities per year. Our generation needs to change the way we think and teach Arizona graduated driver licensing.

If you look closely, you'll realize we spend about 12 years on basic education, reading writing, math, history and physical education…and only 6 hours behind the wheel training in a vehicle.

We need to be remembered as the generation that created the best Arizona drivers in history. The generation that did something about the way we think and teach driver training. We need help from every mom and dad to complete this goal. We need to invest our time in our teenagers and take the time needed to teach our children to drive better.

This could mean as much as 1 or two years of guidance. And to do this you will need the very best Arizona curriculum and training videos available. You will need to allow Arizona graduated driver licensing to become part of your families dinner conversation and sharing experiences on new intersections, changes on the interstate on ramps or maybe a lost of a fellow student friend.

Arizona Driver education and training is no longer a project to hire out to the local driving school. Parents need to get involved and stay involved for at least two or three years. Placing driving restrictions and hours on when a new driver is allowed to drive and with whom. This, in essence, is Arizona Graduated Driver Licensing.