The Roundtrip Learner Logbook app is an officially endorsed replacement for the NSW paper logbook and it’s now three years old! 🥳
To celebrate we’re sharing insights into how learner drivers in NSW practice.
You can find the first article that explores practice sessions here, the second article on supervisors here and the third article on practice diversity here.
In this fourth and final article, we’re focusing on Roundtrip record holders that demonstrate some impressive achievements by learner drivers using our app.
Let’s do this!
Practice beyond the required hours
120 hours is the minimum required practice needed to submit the logbook before going for a driving test but it doesn’t mean learners should stop practising there. It’s important to get as much supervised driving practice as possible as it can help better prepare learner drivers for when they’re driving on their own.
Most hours and trips recorded
120 hours is the minimum, but we have had one learner driver record 497 hours in Roundtrip! That is an impressive amount of supervised practice. The most number of trips recorded was by a different learner driver with a total of 628 trips to their name. 😲
Most nighttime driving
20 of the required 120 hours needs to be night driving, as it can be totally different driving at night than during the day. The learner with the most night-time hours has done over 10x the requirement, logging 227 nighttime hours!
Practice in different weather
Okay, onto the weather records! It can be difficult to predict the weather, but it’s important to practice in different types of weather conditions to help prepare you for when you’re stuck in traffic during a storm!
Most trips in the rain
The most number of trips done in the rain by one learner driver is 88 trips! I hope they brought an umbrella with them!
Most trips in icy weather
Driving while it’s icy can be dangerous! One learner driver has managed to log 93 icy trips, which should help them be better prepared!
Most trips in the snow
What about the snow? It can be rare to find snow in Australia, but one learner driver managed to log 17 trips in snowy weather. Sounds like SNOW much fun!
Traffic and road records
Finally, let’s look at a few different traffic and road types that learners have records in.
Most heavy traffic trips
Who loves traffic? Well, apparently one learner who managed to record 235 trips in heavy traffic does. Yikes!
Unsealed and multi-laned records
Finally, let’s look at two very different road types. The most trips logged on a multi-laned road by one learner is 552 trips. And the most trips on an unsealed road is 410 trips (by a different person).
I think you’ll agree those are some impressive records set by learner drivers using Roundtrip!
That’s it for this series of articles looking at learner drivers using Roundtrip.
If you’re a learner you can download Roundtrip for iOS here, or sign up to be the first to hear when the Android version is released (we’re in the test phase for it at the moment).
The sample is from verified NSW learner drivers using Roundtrip. Verified refers to users who have an account with Roundtrip, have been successfully recognised as a valid learner driver by TfNSW through the app, and have added at least one trip to their logbook. Weather information is determined automatically for each trip using location. Road type and traffic type data are required self-reported data for each trip.