Can I get my driver’s permit before I turn sixteen in Pennsylvania?

Mary

Levittown, Pennsylvania (PA)

No, to the best of my knowledge you cannot get a learner’s permit in Pennsylvania before the age of sixteen. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Driver and Vehicles services as well as the PA driver’s manual, you must be sixteen years of age or older in order to apply for a learner’s permit.

Young drivers will also receive a Parent/Guardian Certification Form when they are issued a learner’s permit. This form is documents of the 50 hours of behind-the-wheel practice. Young drivers must bring the completed certification form with them when they return to take the road portion of the driver licensing exam (6 months or more after getting their permit).

In Pennsylvania the earliest age that young drivers can qualify for a full unrestricted driver’s license in is 17 ½. These young drivers must have held a junior driver’s license for at least 1 full year, completed a state-approved driver’s education course, remained crash- and conviction-free, and to qualify for an unrestricted license before the age of eighteen.

A: You can save a lot of money on your SR-22 insurance quotes by giving a company business. You can give them business if you own a home and get your home insurance through them, have a few cars insured with them, and so on. Here are a few more ways that you may be able to save money on your SR-22 insurance quotes:

• you have taken and passed a general driver’s education course or a defensive driving course, and the second course wasn’t required of you by law
• you have common features on your car, such as seatbelts, an anti theft device, and airbags
• you pay your premium all at once instead of in installments, or you have it taken out monthly through direct debit
• you go to college 100+ miles away from home, but you leave your car with your parents
• you are in school full time and make good grades
• you carpool to work