Is it possible to get your driver's licence in 30 days with a little bit of previous
experience? Of course, it is! So passing within the 30 days of intensive and you know
consistent driving is definitely achievable but it's more important when you get your licence
that you remain safe and that you arrive alive wherever you're going. We had several clients
who did intensive training, but don't confuse the word intensive with how intensively we practice.
We call it intensive training, but consistency is far more important than intensity. So what I
mean is you don't go for nine hours each day to drive. You do it one hour a day or two hours a
day. I'll give you a few ideas what you can do to optimize everything you know. You can do it with
your private supervisors as well providing that you know what to do. Because if the private
supervisors show you something that's, you know, not in you know, driving assessment standards, it
obviously might be counterproductive. You might be learning you know how to do it you know the
wrong way rather than how to do it the correct way. Number one is that you need to go through a
lot of giveaway situations, especially roundabouts where you can anticipate traffic as you're coming
towards the roundabout you should know at least about 15 to 20 meters if you are preparing to
stop or if you're preparing to go through. Going through different situations, through different
roundabouts. Sometimes you have double ones, two-lane roundabouts sometimes you have tiny
residential street roundabouts which are usually a little bit harder. I'll explain a little bit
later why. So what's important that you practice on anticipating the traffic. So if you're approaching
the roundabout you make a proper judgment what's happening before you get to the entry point to the
roundabout, your job is going to be a lot easier. Now, residential roundabouts are a lot harder
because sometimes you need to get as close as maybe 10 even 5 meters from the roundabout to
make a correct judgment. To have a deep look to the right-hand side and obviously to check the
opposite direction as well. You got to practice merging a lot so this is not something that you
know you understand the formula of how to do it and you just simply do it every single time. No,
because every single time something's going to be different, and there's so little time
to make a decision to make the right decision rather. So you can't sort of sit and think you
know what you're going to do because everything happens within a split of a second you know.
So you've got to practice merging. You've got the various types of merging situations where
you've got a line dividing the two lanes before it becomes one, sometimes you don't
have a line dividing the two lanes. Sometimes you don't even have a sign you've got to guess
because you can tell it's narrowing down to the point where you've got a merge you know. So
it will depend on you know, how frequent the road is. A lot of times in residential areas where
there's not much traffic you know daily, they wouldn't make those changes because you know
they didn't have any reports that you know there's been accidents or anything like that. So basically
they would prioritize busier intersections and of course freeways and highways. Changing lanes is
something that you will have to practice you will have to feel comfortable doing it every
single time. If there's one per cent of times that you're uncomfortable it means that you don't have
adequate understanding. Turning right at a major intersection with a single green light without the
green arrow. Turning right without a green arrow is probably the most difficult maneuver that,
you know, learner drivers report because you know no matter how much they practice they will always
feel the pressure when they get into the middle of the intersection when the light changes to
amber and when they have to judge whether there's you know cars still proceeding or
slowing down to stop. So once the light changes, first of all, you've got to understand that it's
changing that's number one okay, so you can't just keep an eye on the traffic without understanding
when the light changes okay. So we've got a few videos that explain exactly how you should act
in those types of situations. Sometimes people want to beat the red light from the opposite
direction so you've got to intercept if someone's speeding up to get through. Exercise left
something behind. You have to be familiar with the procedures because if the assessor tells you what
to do and you've got no idea, you don't recognize what's to be done and you know where to indicate,
when to check the blind spot, and why. A lot of times people were thought wrong. You know
were asked by their supervisors just to do it without understanding why we should do certain
things. So we do have a few videos on exercises left some behind so you should check those out.
The more times you do it, the easier it's going to become. Stopping for shopping. It's just the fancy
term of you know the exercise where you go in the car park and park the car. Sometimes the assessor
can pull you over on the side of the road and and tell you hey let's go straight ahead and I'd like
you to miss that car park on the left-hand side, I'd like you to go ahead and turn around somewhere.
If there's a roundabout in the area you just turn around or if you have to use a driveway.
Turn around come back to the car park and they will say, hey just you know park, reverse park, forward
park, reverse parallel, whatever they say. So listen to the instructions carefully. Driving on freeways
100 kilometres or 90 kilometres now it is really important that you know how to do it. Sadly, in
Western Australia 99 per cent of driving test assessors will not take candidates on a freeway or highway. So
we urge you to do a lot of practice on freeways and highways at high speed to merge, to change
lanes, to have a proper understanding of what you can and can't do. So I cannot stress enough how
important that is despite the fact that you are probably not going to go on freeway when you're
doing your, you know, driving assessment. Midland, they do take you on Roy Highway, usually towards
the end of a driving assessment not for too long, and West Perth sometimes they do it. Lastly, night
driving. You are not going to get tested with yeah when you when you do your night driving but look
when you get your licence, of course, you're going to you know, you're going to be allowed to drive at
night, which I'm sure everyone will at some stage you know. So if you don't have enough experience
it is probably the greatest risk when you sit behind the wheel. Because
everything happens differently, you got to be able to intercept if someone didn't put the headlights
on, um you got to make sure that you put your headlights on, so people can see you easier.
The headlights are not only so you can see in front of you in fact it's probably the, you know,
the minimal reason behind it that you know you need to see, because there's you know at least when
you're driving in in residential area or you know cities you know. Because everything is well lit.
But the problem is if people can't see you, because if you don't have lights, that can be a potential
disaster. So you have to know everything about night driving. Five hours, mandatory five hours of
night driving in Western Australia that you enter in your logbook is beyond joke. Within five hours
of driving at night, you cannot be experienced. and to be able to handle all potential situations
And you know conditions that you might encounter during the night time when you're behind the wheel.
So please do not neglect driving at night and maybe fake your hours in the logbook, we have
a lot of you know reports that people didn't really do it you know, but it was signed off. I
personally can't stress enough how important it is to know how to drive at night, particularly if
it's raining and you know how to use demisters, how to use your lights you know how to defog
all the windows in your car. Just cannot stress enough. So again, you're not going to get tested
for those things, unfortunately, so if you mix all of these things that I've just mentioned in this
short video, if you do it for one or two hours 30 days in a row, there's no doubt in my mind whether you
can pass or not, you will certainly be able to pass, providing that you have a proper understanding of
how to execute everything, and how to score points for looking, signalling, flow, movement, path,
responsiveness and vehicle management. And in addition, to know how to drive at night, how to be
safe behind the wheel at night, on you know on a freeway or a highway, when you're doing
high speeds, when you have to merge and you know, change lanes frequently. Please be responsible, do a
little bit more than necessary if you can, so again I can't stress enough how important it is that you
drive at night, that you drive at high speeds, you can exceed the number of required hours you know.
Five hours is nothing, you know, it is not adequate amount of time that somebody just receives the
licence, and can go on highway in the middle of the winter without street lights. I can't stress enough
how important it is. So passing within the 30 days of intensive and you know consistent driving is
definitely achievable, but it's more important when you get your licence that you remain safe and that
you arrive alive wherever you're going. Thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next video.