Learner's curfew - does anybody know why?

[Cayman911]

i used to drive on my learners and restricted for years, after 10/11pm, cause thats when my work used to finish. no one stopped me.
i mean there shouldnt be a reason to stop you. unless you are going through somewhere with checkpoints or you are hooning around like a maniac between lanes as. or you have a huge L plate :P.

i guess they would be more cautious of bikes, but even that, havnt been stopped so far. dont give them a reason to. and they wont. if you know the route you take is swarmed with cops. take a different route.
anyways, exemption, all i know is that my mate got it real easy, just needed some letter from his boss confirming that his work finished at so and so hours. most probably taken advantage of and changed, as the gentleman above mentioned.

[Ratti]

My oldest son has the same restrictions on his car licence.
Is it linked to the 'learner' part of your title rather than the class of licence.
Sorry, its been so long since I had to do this that Im out of touch with the requirements. I suspect its to give the police a valid reason to get young silly troublemakers off the road and the rest of us safe.
Does seems stupid tho to not have exemption clauses for age/experience/work

[MSTRS:Me]

Yet funnily enough, at about 10pm last night i was coming through some road works at about 70km/h (30k limit posted) then didn't stop at the compulsory stop at the end of them, where the road goes over a railway track. A cop car was sitting at the stop sign waiting coming the other way. He flicked his light bar on, I stopped, he sat there for 30 seconds, then drove off. If I kept going, I gaurantee I would have been either walking, or about $800 poorer

The secret 'in the Job' wave helped though, didn't it?

[Patrick]

No. $100 and 25 demerit points. It changed late last year at the same time as the cellphone ban and many other things.

See here for the infringement fee (see "Drives between hours of 10 pm and 5 am) and here for the demerits (see "Drives motor vehicle contrary to the conditions of his or her driver licence (other than conditions relating to display of L plate)...)

You're wrong. $100 fine and 35 demerits for Learner and Restricted breaches, except things like not wearing your glasses or driving a manual instead of an auto.... Re-read what you linked it to re the demerits... Clue - its in blue.....

Just for revenue gathering. FTP. Don't stop I say.

Worth a death sentence? Okay then................ good luck with that...........

[Mully]

Worth a death sentence? Okay then................ good luck with that...........

It was a roaring success for the bloke in Picton..... Oh, hang on.

[R6_kid:Me]

HI guys, I'm new in the forum and a new Biker, I got my Ls, and there's something that I can'i understand, no even the people from NZTA was capable to give me a good explanation about why as a learner or with a restricted Licence u can't drive after 10 pm??????
It's something that really bother me because I finish working after 10 pm, when no one is on the streets, and I can not ride at this time, which doesn't make sense at all to me because if as a learner u can drive during the day when the streets are full of cars, bikes, pedestrians, dogs, birds, etc. why not after 10 pm.???
Does some one knows why??

Because 15 year olds should be in bed by 10pm.

[kwaka_crasher]

You're wrong. $100 fine and 35 demerits for Learner and Restricted breaches, except things like not wearing your glasses or driving a manual instead of an auto.... Re-read what you linked it to re the demerits... Clue - its in blue.....

Right you are - at least half right. 35 demerits also applies to driving a manual when your 1R conditions state you are only permitted to drive an automatic - see Land Transport (Driver Licensing) Rule 1999 Section 57 referred to in Land Transport (Offences and Penalties) Regulations 1999 Schedule 2 1A. Clue... it's in blue...

[Patrick]

Right you are - at least half right. 35 demerits also applies to driving a manual when your 1R conditions state you are only permitted to drive an automatic - see Land Transport (Driver Licensing) Rule 1999 Section 57 referred to in Land Transport (Offences and Penalties) Regulations 1999 Schedule 2 1A. Clue... it's in blue...

""Except things like...." is a sample. Of course there are more. You were claiming 25 demerits. Just a fix up, was all.....

[EJK]

IF you get a ticket, take it to your boss.

They will take care of it. Thats what my prev boss did.

[Patrick]

Or take it to WINZ. They "fix it up" for ya too....

[kwaka_crasher]

""Except things like...." is a sample. Of course there are more. You were claiming 25 demerits. Just a fix up, was all.....

"35 demerits for Learner and Restricted breaches, except things like not wearing your glasses or driving a manual instead of an auto" seems like a pretty specific example to me. It's 35 demerits for driving a manual when you should be driving an auto.

Just a fix up to your fix up was all.

[Patrick]

"35 demerits for Learner and Restricted breaches, except things like not wearing your glasses or driving a manual instead of an auto" seems like a pretty specific example to me. It's 35 demerits for driving a manual when you should be driving an auto.

Just a fix up to your fix up was all.

They are all "specific" examples, but examples all the same. What about "driving without a supervisor," or "driving without inner rear facing mirrors ( for deaf drivers)," or... hang on.... forget it....

[kwaka_crasher]

The point is one of your specific examples used to correct me is actually wrong.

I guess that's the difference between us - I can admit when I get it wrong.