Learner driver log book hours
Ashraf and George Hany are Transport for NSW accredited instructors who teach learner drivers across Liverpool, Campbelltown and Macarthur, complete your Learner Driver Log Book at the end of every lesson, and record each eligible hour as three logbook hours while you are under 25.
What the NSW log book asks for
Service NSW asks a learner driver under 25 to record supervised driving in the Learner Driver Log Book before booking the practical driving test, and the six cards below set out exactly what those hours have to show.
A learner driver under 25 records at least 120 hours of supervised driving in the log book before the practical driving test, and every hour driven with Ashraf in the Liverpool region or George Hany in Campbelltown and Macarthur is written up before you get out of the car.
At least 20 of the 120 hours are driven between sunset and sunrise, which is why Driving School Liverpool Centre runs evening bookings until 7pm across Liverpool, Casula, Campbelltown and Oran Park all year round.
A learner under 25 holds the learner licence for at least 12 months before moving to a P1 licence, so the smoothest plan spreads roughly 10 hours of driving across each of those months rather than saving them for the end.
Service NSW does not ask a learner aged 25 or over to submit log book hours, and those drivers usually book a short block of lessons with Ashraf or George to reach a confident, test-ready standard instead.
Hours are kept in the digital log book inside the Service NSW app or in the paper Learner Driver Log Book, and your instructor fills in the date, start and finish times, kilometres, conditions and their accreditation number for every lesson.
A supervising driver holds a full Australian driver licence for that class of vehicle, so a parent, older sibling or family friend on a provisional licence cannot sign your log book, while an accredited instructor always can.
3-for-1 logbook hours
A learner driver under 25 who takes a structured lesson with a Transport for NSW accredited instructor can have each eligible hour recorded as three hours in the log book, up to the published limit, which is the fastest legitimate way to build the 120 total while the driving itself improves. The full NSW learner hours guide explains the rule in detail.
How a logbook lesson runs
Four straightforward stages, run by one instructor in an automatic car, with free door-to-door pick-up from home, school or work in every suburb listed on this page.
Send your suburb, mobile and current log book total through the form at the top of this page, and the enquiry reaches Ashraf for the Liverpool region or George Hany for Campbelltown and Macarthur within one business day.
Your instructor collects you from your door, checks what you can already do on quiet streets such as Wilby Street at Chipping Norton or the crescents around Raby, then sets the two or three skills this lesson will build.
A lesson moves from local streets to the conditions your log book is thin on, whether that is roundabouts at Gregory Hills, merging on the Hume Highway, wet weather, night driving or reverse parking at Prestons.
Before you leave the car, your instructor records the drive in your log book with the eligible 3-for-1 credit, names what improved, and gives you two exercises to repeat with your supervising driver during the week.
Planning the 120 hours
A learner who drives around 10 hours a month reaches 120 hours inside the 12 months the learner licence has to be held, and the plan below shows what each stage is best spent on so the total arrives with genuine skill behind it.
| Stage of the learner licence | Hours to aim for | What the driving covers |
|---|---|---|
| Months 1 to 2, first control | About 15 hours, including 2 professional lessons | Cockpit setup, moving off, stopping, steering and mirror habits on quiet streets in your own suburb, such as Ashfordby Street at Chipping Norton or the crescents around Kearns. |
| Months 3 to 4, local roads | About 25 hours in total, including night driving | Intersections, give-way decisions, school zones and kerbside stops on Cowpasture Road, Cabramatta town streets or the roads around Mount Annan, plus your first hours after sunset. |
| Months 5 to 6, busier traffic | About 50 hours in total | Multi-lane roads, lane changes and roundabouts on Narellan Road, Governor Macquarie Drive or Camden Valley Way, where timing and gap selection matter more than steering. |
| Months 7 to 9, highways and weather | About 85 hours in total | Merging and speed management on the Hume Highway and Hume Motorway, wet-weather driving, hill starts around Glen Alpine and the remainder of your 20 night hours. |
| Months 10 to 11, manoeuvres | About 110 hours in total | Reverse parallel parking, 90-degree parking and three-point turns repeated against real kerbs at Prestons, Woodbine and Oran Park until the reference points are automatic. |
| Month 12, test standard | 120 hours, ready to book the test | Full drives on the roads around your Service NSW centre at Warwick Farm, Edmondson Park, Macquarie Fields or Macarthur, at the standard the testing officer assesses. |
Your 20 night hours
Night hours are the hours driven between sunset and sunrise, and they are the part of the log book a family cannot catch up on quickly, because a summer evening in Liverpool stays light until well after dinner.
Ashraf and George Hany book evening lessons against the actual sunset time for the season, so a 5.30pm start in June fills your night column while the same booking in December does not. Winter is the cheapest time to bank night hours, and both instructors teach until 7pm seven days a week.
A night lesson does more than move a number. Learners practise low beam and high beam choice on unlit stretches of Newbridge Road, recovering from oncoming glare on Appin Road, judging following distance under street lights on Governor Macquarie Drive, and spotting pedestrians on the Campbelltown and Casula shopping streets where dark clothing appears late.
The 3-for-1 bonus hours from an eligible evening lesson are recorded as daytime hours, so only the time you actually drive after sunset counts toward the 20-hour night requirement. Your instructor writes both figures into the log book at the end of the lesson so the two columns stay correct.
For parents and supervising drivers
Most of the 120 hours are driven with a parent or family member beside the learner, so Driving School Liverpool Centre treats a supervising driver as part of the plan rather than an afterthought.
A supervising driver holds a full Australian driver licence for the class of vehicle, sits in the front passenger seat, and records the drive in the digital log book in the Service NSW app or in the paper book. The learner enters the date, times, distance and conditions, and the supervisor confirms the entry, which is why filling it in at the end of the drive is far easier than reconstructing a week later.
After every lesson, Ashraf or George tells the supervising driver exactly what to practise next, such as head checks before every lane change on Newbridge Road, or slowing to walking pace during reverse parking at Prestons. That handover keeps home practice building the same habits the lesson taught rather than quietly undoing them.
Parents who have not taught a learner before often ask what they are allowed to correct. A short phone call with your instructor after the first lesson answers that, and many families in Liverpool, Campbelltown and Macarthur use one lesson every two or three weeks purely to keep their own supervision on track.
Keeping the log book right
Service NSW asks a learner and their supervising driver to declare log book hours accurately, and an honest, complete book is also the one that shows a testing officer a genuinely prepared driver.
Record each drive as it finishes, while the start time, finish time and distance are still in front of you, and keep the digital log book in the Service NSW app updated rather than transferring a month of drives from memory.
Vary what you record as well as how much. A book full of one easy route around a single suburb builds a smaller driver than the same hours spread across quiet streets, arterial roads, rain, night driving and unfamiliar suburbs.
Lesson packages
The same published prices apply to every lesson the Liverpool branch teaches.
Perfect for beginners
$80One hour lesson in an automatic car, including pick-up and drop-off.
Most popular
$150Two hour lesson in an automatic car, including pick-up and drop-off.
Save $30
$370Five hour lessons package, including pick-up and drop-off.
Best value
$700Ten hour lessons package, including pick-up and drop-off.
Lessons plus test day
$770Eight lesson hours, a warm-up lesson on test day and car hire for the Service NSW assessment.
Test-ready package
$220A one-hour warm-up lesson plus car hire for the driving test.
Flexible payments
$710The $700 ten-hour lesson package paid by instalments, including the published $10 administration fee.
Nearby suburbs
The same instructor teaches the areas below. See every suburb we cover for the full list and pick-up detail.
Early control work runs on Wilby Street and Ashfordby Street, three-point turns on Derby Crescent, then a measured move into Governor Macquarie Drive traffic.
A busy town centre with constant pedestrian movement. Lessons here sharpen observation timing and hazard awareness more than anywhere else on the Liverpool side.
George's home ground. Lessons start on quiet crescents, then build to Narellan Road's multi-lane intersections, the Macarthur Square approaches and the Hume Motorway interchanges.
Has its own Service NSW driver testing centre, which makes it the natural test choice for learners in the northern Macarthur suburbs.
Filling specific gaps
A log book shows its own gaps. Driving School Liverpool Centre matches a lesson to the column that is short, so the hours you add next are the hours you actually need.
A learner who has never driven starts with automatic lessons for beginners on quiet local streets, which is a calmer first log book entry than a parent's car on a Saturday morning.
Evening lessons with Ashraf or George put real hours between sunset and sunrise into the log book while teaching headlight use, glare recovery and low-light distance judgement.
A wet-weather lesson uses genuine rain to practise longer stopping distances, gentler steering and reduced visibility, so a wet test day or a wet drive home is already familiar.
Parking practice lessons build reverse parallel, 90-degree and angle parking against real kerbs at Prestons and Woodbine, using reference points you can repeat with your supervising driver.
A practice test on the roads around your own Service NSW centre shows what a testing officer would mark, which is a better use of hour 118 than another lap of your street.
Once the log book is complete, you can hire the same Driving School Liverpool Centre automatic you trained in for the Service NSW assessment, with a warm-up lesson on the roads around the centre first.
Calm, staged lessons for nervous drivers get a stalled log book moving again, because a learner who dreads the next drive stops recording hours altogether.
Saturday and Sunday lessons from 7am to 7pm suit a learner at school, university or working full time, and weekend mornings are the easiest hours to book consistently.
The NSW learner hours guide sets out the 120-hour and 20-night-hour requirements, the age-25 exemption and the 3-for-1 limit in one page you can send to a parent.
Who decides what
Reading this before you book keeps the two roles clear, so nothing about your log book comes as a surprise in the month you want to sit the driving test.
Driving School Liverpool Centre provides accredited instruction, completes your log book for the lessons you take and prepares you for the practical driving test. Service NSW sets the current requirements for supervised hours, night hours, exemptions, the 3-for-1 credit and how the log book is submitted, and confirms your eligibility before a test appointment is issued.
A log book is a declaration, and Service NSW expects the learner and the supervising driver to record only the driving that actually happened. Driving School Liverpool Centre records the exact time you drive with your instructor, including the eligible bonus hours, and will not sign for hours you did not drive.
Driving School Liverpool Centre teaches learner drivers in automatic vehicles across Liverpool, Campbelltown and Macarthur. Hours driven in an automatic count in your log book in the ordinary way, and passing the practical test in an automatic gives you a NSW licence carrying an automatic condition, which Service NSW explains in full. A learner who needs a manual licence sits the test in a manual vehicle arranged elsewhere.
Professional standards
Ashraf and George Hany hold Transport for NSW accreditation, Australian Driver Trainers Association membership, Working with Children Checks and National Police Checks, which is the standard a learner and their parents should expect from the instructor writing in their log book.
Where learners go next
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Questions
Clear answers on the 120 hours, the 20 night hours, 3-for-1 credit, supervising drivers and how a lesson is recorded.
A learner driver under 25 records at least 120 hours of supervised driving in the Learner Driver Log Book, including at least 20 hours at night, before sitting the practical driving test. A learner aged 25 or over is not asked to submit log book hours, although Service NSW still confirms eligibility before a test appointment.
Yes. Every hour you drive with a Transport for NSW accredited instructor is recorded in your log book, and for an eligible learner under 25 each of those hours can be entered as three hours under the 3-for-1 rule, up to a maximum of 10 actual instructor hours.
One eligible lesson hour with an accredited instructor is recorded as three log book hours: the hour you drove plus two bonus hours. A maximum of 10 actual hours can attract the credit, so 10 lesson hours can appear as 30 recorded hours, which leaves 90 hours for supervised practice.
Yes. The 10-hour ceiling applies only to the bonus credit, not to how many lessons you can book. Learners often add lessons for parking, night driving, wet weather or test preparation, and those hours are still recorded in the log book at their actual duration.
No. If an eligible lesson is driven after sunset, the actual time you drove counts as night driving, while the bonus portion is recorded as daytime hours. That is why Ashraf and George book real evening lessons rather than treating a late-afternoon booking as night practice.
A supervising driver holds a full Australian driver licence for the class of vehicle you are driving and sits in the front passenger seat. A provisional licence holder cannot supervise a learner in NSW, so a parent, older relative or family friend on a full licence is the usual choice between lessons.
Yes. Before you get out of the car, your instructor completes the entry with the date, the start and finish times, the distance driven, the conditions and their accreditation number, including any 3-for-1 credit that applies, so nothing has to be reconstructed later.
Either. Driving School Liverpool Centre instructors record lessons in the digital log book inside the Service NSW app or in the paper Learner Driver Log Book, whichever you use. Tell your instructor at the start of the lesson which one you are keeping.
Ashraf teaches Liverpool and surrounding suburbs including Casula, Prestons, Chipping Norton, Cabramatta, Moorebank and Edmondson Park. George Hany teaches Campbelltown and Macarthur including Ingleburn, Minto, Narellan, Oran Park, Camden and Gregory Hills. Pick-up and drop-off is free in every suburb listed on this page.
A learner who drives about 10 hours a month reaches 120 hours inside the 12 months an under-25 learner has to hold the learner licence. Booking one lesson a month and a few supervised drives a week keeps that pace comfortable without a rush at the end.
Service NSW does not require log book hours from a learner aged 25 or over. Most drivers in that position book a short block of lessons with Ashraf or George to reach a reliable, test-standard level of driving, then move straight to test preparation.
Yes. Driving School Liverpool Centre teaches seven days a week from 7am to 7pm, including weekends and evenings, and collects you from home, school or work. That flexibility is what keeps log book hours accumulating during term time and shift work.
Log book hours
Send your suburb, mobile and current log book total through the four-field form, and Ashraf or George Hany will confirm a lesson time, complete your Learner Driver Log Book at the end of it and tell you exactly what to practise next.
Send an enquiry
Fill in the form and the Liverpool branch will reply by email or phone. If you need an answer quickly, calling (02) 8776 1815 is usually faster.
