A 2-minute lesson from the Georgia course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
A Class D license comes with limits designed for new drivers: a nighttime curfew and passenger limits that loosen during the first year. Major violations can also delay your full Class C license.
12:00 to 5:00 a.m.
Class D drivers may not drive during these hours, with NO exceptions
For the 12 months before applying for a Class C, a Class D holder must have no convictions for major traffic violations that result in a mandatory license suspension.
A Class D holder may get a Class C at 18 after holding the Class D until 18, or for one year and one day, with no major violations in the prior 12 months.
Four months after getting your Class D, you want to drive two school friends home. Not allowed: in the first 6 months only immediate family may ride. In months 7 through 12 you could take one of them.
Put it into practice
Your cousin lives at your house. For Class D passenger rules, she counts as immediate family, because anyone who lives at your residence does.
Check your understanding
Read the question, decide on an answer, then open it to check the explanation. These are Roadwise study questions based on the source handbook.
Between which hours may a Class D provisional license holder not drive, with no exceptions?
12:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.
11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.
12:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
Answer: 12:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.
A Class D license holder may not drive between midnight and 5:00 a.m., with no exceptions.