Utah Drivers Education Requirements

While most teens look forward to driving much as adults look forward to vacation, they have to learn the rules and regulations before they can get behind the wheel of a car. Teen drivers are either responsible for or involved in almost a third of all automobile accidents each year, and many result in either serious injury or death for at least one teen involved. Mandatory driver’s education is helping to decrease this statistic drastically.

The state of Utah has mandated that a graduated licensing program is in order to help aid in the reduction of the number of teen driving accidents. In addition, teens must complete a state-approved driver’s education course in order to receive a driver’s license. You must also log 40 hours of supervised driving with a licensed adult (10 hours must be completed at night).

An acceptable driver’s education course will include 18 hours of in-classroom instruction, 6 hours of behind-the-wheel training, and 6 hours of observing someone else drive. You must be at least 15 years and six months before you can apply for a learner’s permit. While you have your learner’s permit, you must drive with a licensed parent, guardian, or spouse in the front passenger seat at all times, but may have other passengers in the vehicle.

Teens and Driving for Work – Texas

OUTSIDE HELPER

No employee under 18 years may serve as an outside helper on a motor vehicle. An outside helper is any individual, other than a driver, whose work includes riding on a motor vehicle outside the cab for the purpose of assisting in transporting or delivering goods.

DRIVING – Under 17-Years of Age

No employee under 17 years of age may drive a motor vehicle on public roads as part of his or her job if that employment is subject to the FLSA.

DRIVING – 17 Years of Age

Seventeen-year-olds may drive on public roadways as part of their employment, but ONLY if all of the following requirements are met:
The driving is limited to daylight hours;
The 17-year-old holds a state license valid for the type of driving involved in the job performed;

The 17-year-old has successfully completed a state approved driver education course and has no record of any moving violations at the time of hire;
The automobile or truck does not exceed 6,000 pounds gross vehicle weight;

The automobile or truck is equipped with a seat belt for the driver and any passengers and the employer has instructed the youth that the seat belts must be used when driving the vehicle; and

The driving is only occasional and incidental to the 17-year-old’s employment. This means that the youth may spend no more than one-third of his or her workday and no more than 20 percent of his or her work time in any workweek driving.

In addition, the driving may NOT involve:

Towing vehicles;

Any other vehicle than an automobile or truck (i.e. bus, motorcycle, ATVs, golf cart);

Route deliveries or route sales;

Transportation for hire of property; goods, or passengers;

Urgent, time-sensitive deliveries; Urgent, time sensitive deliveries are trips which, because of such factors as customers satisfaction, the rapid deterioration of the quality or change in temperature of the product, and/or economic incentives, are subject to time-lines, schedules, and/or turn-around times which might impel the driver to hurry in the completion of the delivery. Prohibited trips would include, but are not limited to, the delivery of pizzas and prepared foods to the customer; the delivery of materials under a deadline (such as deposits to a bank at closing); and the shuttling of passengers to and from transportation depots to meet transport schedules. Urgent, time-sensitive deliveries would not depend on the delivery’s points of origin and termination, and would include the delivery of people and things to the employer’s place of business as well as from that business to some other location.

Transporting more than three passengers, including employees of the employer;

Driving beyond a 30 mile radius from the youth’s place of employment;

More than two trips away from the primary place of employment in any single day to deliver the employer’s goods to a customer (other than urgent, time-sensitive deliveries which are prohibited);

More than two trips away from the primary place of employment in any single day to transport passengers, other than employees of the employer.

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