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This is provided by Tahmoor Driving School totally free to learners who take a lesson with Tahmoor Driving School, Picton Driving School, Wollondilly Driving School, and Bowral Driving School
Contact for a Driving Lesson 02-46819390 or mobile 0408426379 email lbt@australiamail.com

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Picton Driving School is providing Driving Lessons in the Wollondilly Shire District of NSW
If you are serious about learning, and the cost of driving lessons then this is the phone number to call after 1pm
02-46819390   Mobile 0408426379 or email: lbt@australiamail.com 

This is important to learners achieving the qualifying hours
The correct way to enter the Structured Lesson Record Keeper & Log Book
Confusion is causing learners to be in a position not having the correct hours required
Read on

 
 Please take the time to read this to assist with your Log Book management: There is a lot of confusion

The information reads

Instructions for fully licensed driving instructors, learner drivers and supervising drivers

 Note: Lessons undertaken with a fully licensed driving instructor prior to 19 December 2009 are permitted to be recorded here (up to a maximum of 10 hours). In these instances, only the date, the duration of the lesson, and the driving school need to be completed in the record keeper. Where an instructor signature cannot be obtained, it may be verified and signed by the regular supervising driver. Lesson hours in the Learner driver log book must also be adjusted and initialed by the supervising driver.

INSTRUCTOR SIGNATURE

General:

Driving instructors are required to fill and complete the Structured Lesson Record Keeper.  This must be stapled to the Declaration of completion, page 111 of the Learner driver log book.  The latest RTA Learner log Book has the page in the back of the book

 Each lesson must: be designed by the instructor in conjunction with the regular supervising driver/parent, and the learner driver.

INSTRUCTOR LICENCE NUMBER

HOURS FOR LOG BOOK RECOGNITION

Aim to develop the learner driver's ability to understand and apply the principles of 'low risk driving' as outlined in the Learner driver log book. (Additional resources for the development of lessons should include the Road Users' Handbook and A guide to the Driving Test).

 Should be developed through reflecting on the needs of each learner driver, and will therefore be tailored for each individual. And be conducted on public roads.

 INSTRUCTOR DRIVING SCHOOL

Notes:

 The driving instructor must insert a lesson topic reflecting the Learner driver log book lesson content from one of the following Learner driver log book sections: with the description of the lesson conducted,

Please note entering a colour code to describe the lesson is not acceptable as a description of the lesson nor is entering a page number, the description should read "Vehicle control, Steering or what ever the practise lesson is about.

LEARNER LICENCE NUMBER

Building a foundation

[Green section]

Traffic Skills

[Orange section]

 Low risk driving

[Red section]

 Building Experience

 [Blue section]

The Student learner signs the prepared lesson plan which is retained by the instructor

 By signing in this section, the driving instructor is acknowledging that they have completed an RTA 'Structured lesson planner' with curriculum content derived from the RTA Learner driver log book.

LESSON DURATION

Structured Lesson Record Keeper (This is where the confusion lies)

(It reads)

Learner drivers should enter their driving experience with a driving instructor in their Learner driver log book as 3 hours for every 1 hour with a driving instructor.

(Correction: The Instructor must fill out the log book to correspond with their own record sheet and must fill out the Structured Lesson Record Keeper)

The correct wording should read: Learner drivers should note the value in hours for each 1 hour conducted by a Driving Instructor equals 3 hours if entered in the Structured Lesson Record Keeper

The normal log book entry should be no more than 2 hours recorded due to the fatigue requirement, (you cannot record a time value in the log book as well as the Structured Lesson Record Keeper) The examiner may omit the total hours entered if it is more than 2 hours.

Note  The Instructor conducting a lesson complying with the Structured Lesson Record Keeper should enter the duration of the lesson in the page at the back of the log book (Structured Lesson Record Keeper) stating the topic of the lesson and the hour of no more than 2hrs and must not double up the hours by placing hours in the normal log book entry as well, instead they should place the letters SLRK in exchange for a hours entry, this way the learner will have the correct hours calculated, all other information in regard to the lesson is entered in the normal way in the log book.

This is simple logic that when the tally in the log book is say 70 hours day driving and 20 hours night driving plus if you have 10 hours SLRK equal to 30 hours the total would be 120, this seems to be ok, but should the examiner omit the double up entered in the log book that was put in as 3 hours each time the SLRK was conducted you will be 30 hours short of your required hours

 TOTAL DRIVING INSTRUCTOR HOURS

(It Reads)

There is a maximum limit of 10 hours with a driver instructor that can be included for additional Learner driver log book recognition. The total value of lessons taken with a driver instructor for additional Learner driver log book recognition will not exceed 30 hours towards the 120 hour Learner driver log book requirement. Structured driving lessons conducted at night are included as part of the Structured Lesson Scheme and recognised as 3 hours for 1 hour with a fully licensed instructor. However, applicants must still complete a minimum of 20 hours actual night time driving.

(Let me explain the above shown below underlined)

It is confusing to state “additional Learner driver log book recognition;

It should state: Structured Lesson Record Keeper

Because every lesson is a structured lesson and in the normal log book entry the maximum hour at any one time is 2 hour and a learner can take as many lessons with an instructor as they wish as you can see below the confusing statement underlined

(It states)

There is a maximum limit of 10 hours with a driver instructor that can be included for additional Learner driver log book recognition.

 (It further states)

The total value of lessons taken with a driver instructor for additional Learner driver log book recognition will not exceed 30 hours towards the 120 hour

 The wording should have continued (in the structured Lesson Record Keeper:

I have had parents believe that the Instructor could not provide more than the 10 hours to equal the 30, which is not correct but wait!! it is correct with the Structured Lesson Record Keeper

The truth is: a learner may take as many lessons as they desire

Country and Rock entertainment is spreading in UK and Ireland where Two Heads are better than one 
Alan Fullard with Pot Of Gold and Frank McCaffrey with Ramblin Boy
There is a new life out there which has been boiling for years in the entertainment business
It is really great to be associated with true talent as you can also discover and enjoy
Jerry Crowley from Rosette Records sent me the latest releases and now it is a test to see how long the CD's last in my vehicle playing non stop in that good old Sydney Australia sunshine.
On my way to a Driving lesson appointment in Wollondilly and the Southern Highlands plus the McArthur region I play Frank McCaffrey CD Here's to you My Ramblin Boy and on the way home I play Alan Fullard CD Pot Of Gold, you know how good it is in the car because I can lift the volume as much as I like
Support your favourite artist and purchase their CD/DVD so they can continue to provide great music & song for our enjoyment
Rock On and Live Life To The Max
Tim Clarke

Country Golf Club Tribute

A Mini Tribute Show is being hosted by Anthill Park Country Golf Club featuring great acts from the 70’s 80’s & the 90’s

Yes this is a feature events promotion & at this time the nation’s No1 Kylie Minogue has not been attracted to the country Golf Club.

 We do have Ranis Fire, & Alex Stengl, singer songwriter also Chris E Thomas, with Blues’n roots’n country’n rock also the Bold & beautiful

The Country Music is reaching new artists attracting great singers & musicians from Sydney and a coach from Sydney will be a necessity to transport the Irish invasion of talented musicians and singers also there is a whisper that Alan Fullard is being encouraged to take a tour down under and will most definitely be a star attraction at the Anthill Park Country Golf Club,

Alan Fullard is soaring success in the music scene with his release Pot Of Gold and is featured on Sky TV, Alan is a singer & songwriter and he uses his own material.

The Anthill Golf Club is located in Picton, it is a historical tourist attraction with a huge parking area, the golf course is 18 hole, par 70 This is a feature attraction nestled on a country landscape looking towards the Razorback Mountain

 Keep your eye’s on www.wollondilly.com for updates and visit the club’s home web site www.antillpark.com.au/

News Flash For Christmas, Reduced price for Driving Lessons

Tahmoor Driving School, Wollondilly Driving School, Picton Driving School, Bowral Driving School
 Helping patents with cost,
Your car $45 per hour lesson, School car $50 per hour lesson
Phone 02-46819390
Mob 0408426379

A PICTON driving school is offering parents a free upgrade-driving lesson so that their young learner driver is better equipped with the correct Information on safety!

Most of Picton Driving School students pass their provisional licence test first go.

Learner drivers pay $60 in the school car and $50 in their own car

Learner drivers are required to have 120 hours of driving experience before they can sit their driving test with the RTA.

With Twenty hours during night hours this is a great learning experience

Tim Clarke has spent 36 years mentoring learner drivers on Wollondilly roads

For your driving assessment contact Tim Clarke on 0408426379

Parents must be aware that they may be taken to the cleaners by shonky driving instructors

It is important to communicate with your son or daughter an inquire about the lesson they have been on

It is very rare but it is happening where an instructor will have a student park at the side of the road for an extended time waffling on about anything to kill time

Also note the finishing time and the urgency to make another booking

Many learners are of the belief that if they go to another instructor they will have to start at the beginning again, this is far from the reality.

An instructor who knows their job will assess your driving skills within five minutes and give you a plan of tasks to better your driving ability and get results

The best results are achieved by driving and practising different manoeuvres as often as possible during the course of your lesson

You will not get results by being parked at the side of the road 

If your instructor prattles on about their achievements and their home life pets or family “give that instructor the flick” because the lesson is about you and getting results.

Take a lesson with each driving instructor in your area and you will soon realise who is giving you the best value for your parents hard earned money

Recently a student who had been with another instructor told me that the instructor insisted on the learner to check the rear vision mirror every ten seconds

I can assure you that if some instructors are audited by the RTA they will end up in court for incorrect logbook management

My advice to parents and students is be more vigilant and open your eyes to getting the best instruction to make you a better driver "I just want my licence is not the proper attitude"

Listening to friend who say that a particular RTA Registry gives you your licence easier is a load of rubbish

You must pass your driving test on your own merit at the time of your test and if you do not make serious blunders then you have a great chance of passing

Do not be misguided
Driving a driving school car for your test does not make a difference in the examiners decision of your ability to be a safe driver

Do not be fooled by thinking you can outwit the examiner, they are skilled and are qualified at their job

Being a safe driver is up to you to make the correct decisions to be safe and have the right attitude

 27,000 motorists have been suspended
Victoria's Learner Drivers being booked by the THOUSANDS
 Rogue young rookie drivers are racking up demerit points at an alarming rate, VicRoads figures have revealed.

At least 8200 L-platers have been booked and a quarter of learners have at least four demerit points, figures seen by the Herald Sun show.

About 280 of them are just one mistake away from being forced off the road with 10 or more points. A further 1400 rookie drivers have been suspended, including 175 who accrued more than 12 points.

Experts have called for learners who are booked to be banned for two years.

Figures also show:

MORE than 55,000 P-platers have demerit points, including almost 900 with more than 12.

60,000 drivers have 10 or more points.

27,000 motorists have been suspended.

ONE in 10 of Victoria's four million licence holders has more than five points.

Drink-driving, speeding and using a mobile phone while driving are among offences that incur demerit points.

Restricted licence holders who accrue more than five points in a year or more than 12 in three years can lose their permit for three months.

Another month is added for every four extra points.

Road policing Supt Neville Taylor said police would do everything they could to keep rogue learner drivers off the roads.

"We apply the law to learner drivers as much as we do to any other driver," Supt Taylor said.

Accredited driving instructor Jan Spits said learners who incurred demerit points should be suspended for two years.

And supervising drivers should lose points if a learner beside them commits an offence.

The person really in charge of the vehicle is on the left-hand side," Mr Spits said.

Clinical psychologist and adjunct lecturer at Monash University Simon Crisp said learner and probationary drivers should be allowed to accrue fewer demerit points.

"Teenagers and young adults - they need to have much more immediate consequences," Dr Crisp said. "The demerit system should be much tighter for them so they more quickly get to the point where they're going to lose or have their licence suspended, so that consequences are more significant, but also much faster in coming."

Areas of the brain's frontal lobe - which control thinking functions, decision-making and reward-related input - are among the last to develop fully. Some people can be in their mid to late 20s before that brain development is complete.

VicRoads data to January 31 this year showed there were more than 289,000 registered learners.

Would-be drivers can apply for a learner's permit at 16 and must sit a 32-question multiple choice test on road laws, which has a pass rate of 78 per cent.

Double demerit points are "one issue on the table" during broader talks with government and other road safety organisations about how to reduce the road toll.

 

 LEARNER drivers are thumbing their noses at the law and taking to the roads unaccompanied in their thousands.

Statistics provided by Transport and Main Roads show more than 10,000 learner drivers were caught driving alone last year, of a total 11,241 who accumulated demerit points.

Another 900 lost their licence altogether before even qualifying to drive alone, after racking up more than four demerit points.

A Transport and Main Roads spokesman said most offenders (69 per cent) were not teenagers but learners aged 20 years and more.

Queensland president of the Australian Driver Trainers Association, Paul Kennedy, said he was not surprised so many older learner drivers were taking to the roads unsupervised.

He said one driver who came to him for lessons in 2007 had been driving unsupervised for 15 years and only been pulled over once.

"They think because they look older they won't get stopped, especially if they take the L-plates off," Mr Kennedy said. "The attitude is 'the odds of getting caught are low' and the fact of the matter is, they probably are."

He said other learners resorted to driving alone out of "sheer frustration with the 100-hour logbook".

.Learner drivers ignore the law and take to the roads alone Robyn Ironside From: The Courier-Mail April 11, 2011 12:00AM 72 commentsIncrease Text SizeDecrease Text SizePrintEmail Share

Add to DiggAdd to del.icio.usAdd to FacebookAdd to KwoffAdd to MyspaceAdd to NewsvineWhat are these? BEHIND THE WHEEL: Learner drivers are supposed to be accompanied as they learn. Source: The Courier-Mail

LEARNER drivers are thumbing their noses at the law and taking to the roads unaccompanied in their thousands.

Statistics provided by Transport and Main Roads show more than 10,000 learner drivers were caught driving alone last year, of a total 11,241 who accumulated demerit points.

Another 900 lost their licence altogether before even qualifying to drive alone, after racking up more than four demerit points.

A Transport and Main Roads spokesman said most offenders (69 per cent) were not teenagers but learners aged 20 years and more.

Queensland president of the Australian Driver Trainers Association, Paul Kennedy, said he was not surprised so many older learner drivers were taking to the roads unsupervised.

He said one driver who came to him for lessons in 2007 had been driving unsupervised for 15 years and only been pulled over once.

"They think because they look older they won't get stopped, especially if they take the L-plates off," Mr Kennedy said. "The attitude is 'the odds of getting caught are low' and the fact of the matter is, they probably are."

He said other learners resorted to driving alone out of "sheer frustration with the 100-hour logbook".

"A lot of them have probably been on their learner's permit for a long time, struggling to get their 100 hours," Mr Kennedy said.

"They could alleviate that problem by applying for an exemption."

Transport Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk said it was disturbing older drivers, "the ones who should know better", made up the majority of those losing demerit points.

"Police are doing a good job cracking down on those who flout road rules," Ms Palaszczuk said.

"If there is one law that is drummed into learner drivers from the start, it's do not drive while unaccompanied."

She said penalties for learner driver infringements were under review by the State Government.

"Tougher penalties are one thing, of course, but losing one's life or causing serious injury to someone else should be reason enough to obey road rules."

Currently, any learner who racks up four or more demerit points stands to lose their licence for three months or be placed on a 12-month good driving behaviour agreement.

The 17- to 24-year age group remains the most over-represented in Queensland road toll statistics.

The age group accounted for more than one in five deaths (22.9 per cent) in the past year.
News Source CourierMail.com.au

Most people may relate to the Ass as a dumb lazy animal “Donkey”

Slang: Stupid person or dumb ass.

Just how stupid are smart people or is it so’ that smart people are real stupid "Quiet demeaning you may think".

Supposing you had information that some fool was going to rob your house this week

What would you do about it? Would you report what you know to the Police, of course the Police cannot sit outside your house 24/7.

Staying home from work, sitting in your armchair armed with a cricket bat is a thought! I don’t think so because you could end up in jail or suffer sever losses if you assaulted the burglar because you waited with intent.

It is a problem when you have something, which others want to take from you without your consent, and the dreadful thing about it is it’s happening every day.

Many people I spoke with say they have insurance to cover all things great and small and I feel so sorry they have an elusion about insurance and protection

Truth is a life of it’s own and is infallible, which means in simple terms You May Be A Sitting Duck 

 The world is your oyster if you are equipped with greater knowledge http://www.sittingduckassetprotection.com/Wollondilly_Special

Make use of what you know, and reach out for the unknown

Passing your driving test is the beginning of a journey

It gives you freedom, it gives you choice, it gives you opportunity, and it give you pride
Think of it as another chance in your life to enrich those around you and your family
From being a prisoner trapped in time, you now have a new born life to explore

Treat it like something you love and cherish and, do not abuse
 and destroy what you have strived for
Remember! there is nothing cool about being stupid
Keep below the speed limit and stay away from the rear end of the idiot in front of you
 Would you like to have your say or leave a comment go to the Wollondilly Forum
Sincerely
Tim Clarke
Imparting knowledge and skill for 36 years

Large Pizza for learner drivers in Wollondilly Tahmoor
Every week there is a winner for a large Pizza from Tahmoor Pizza Bar
This is provided by Tahmoor Driving School totally free to learners who take a lesson with Tahmoor Driving School, Picton Driving School, Wollondilly Driving School, and Bowral Driving School
Contact for a Driving Lesson 02-46819390 or mobile 0408426379 email lbt@australiamail.com