Coaching schedule
As discussed in the coaching guidelines,
you as a parent have an important role to play in your teen's
early driving years.
Click on the following BC Graduated
Licensing Program licensing stages to view a more detailed
schedule, including; goals, to dos and points to remember.
1. Before
your teen gets their Class 7 learner's licence
- Your coaching can begin
several months before your teen's 16th birthday, the earliest
date they can apply for their learner's licence.
- When your teen begins to
raise the subject of driving, you can start coaching.
- You may want to draw up
a Family
Contract for your teen and you.
- You can help your teen
prepare to take their Knowledge Test (check out our online
practice test!)
2. Learner
Stage
- Learners receive
a Tuning
Up guide as part of the Learner Toolkit when they are issued their Learner's Licence. Tuning Up provides information for your teen and for you about the driving skills they should learn, and how to teach these skills.
- You may help your teen practice driving, or help them find someone who has the time and is able to teach them. You may also want to consider having them take an ICBC-approved
Driver Education course.
- Is a minimum of 12 months long.
- The "L" (learners) sign must be displayed at the back of the car.
- Zero blood alcohol content.
- Supervisor required — 25 or older with a full privilege licence.
- Limit of 1 passenger.
- Learners are allowed to drive only between 5 a.m. and midnight.
3. Novice
Stage
- Is a minimum
of 24 months long
- The "N" (novice)
sign must be displayed at the back of the car.
- Zero blood
alcohol content.
- Limit of 1 passenger unless you are driving with a supervisor 25 or older with a valid Class 1-5 driver's licence. (This restriction doesn't apply to immediate family member: mother, father, sister, brother, spouse, child, grandparent; including step and foster relationships.)
- You can use this period to help your teen gradually gain driving experience, using Tuning Up as a guide.
- Near the end of this stage, you and your teen should review Tuning Up to help prepare for your teen's Class 5 road test.
- If you take an approved driver education course in the Learner stage and have no violation tickets or at-fault crashes during the first 18 months of the Novice stage, you will receive a 6-month reduction in the GLP Novice stage. You are eligible to take the Class 5 road test after 18 months of Novice stage experience.
4. Full-privilege
Licence
- Once your teen passes the
road test, they will receive their full-privilege Class
5 driver's licence.
