Firstly, I had to wait until I was 18 just to get my learner license because I had to legally change my name. They would not accept my ID because my last name on my birth certificate was different to the rest of my ID.
After I waited almost two years longer than everyone else to get a learner license, I then find out they have a form you could have just filled and get signed by a doctor to prove that I am that person. Those assholes didn’t even tell me that.

Anyway after finally getting my Change of Name Document I finally was able to get my learner license in October 2006.

As I was lazy in the year that my license lasted for, I had to get it renewed. I had it renewed in October 2007. Nearly four months after the new laws for learners came in. I specifically asked the person renewing my license if I needed to do a log book, because all new learners had to. She told me that I did not because I am under the old learner rules, therefore I didn’t need a log book. I asked her a final time before I left, just to make sure and she again told me no I didn’t need one.

So I didn’t worry about it and when I had driving lessons with instructors none of them knew if I did need one or not. Now that I am ready to go for my P’s, I investigated to see if I need one, and it turns out that I do.

My license expires in three months, I NEVER even received a log book from Queensland Transport. I have definitely done over 100 hours of driving, but have not recorded any of it. I have spent hundreds on driving lessons. Now because of some moron who told me the wrong information, I will not be getting my promotion at work, because my promotion depends on me getting my license. I seriously hate those idiots there. Every time I go there they cause my grief.

Does anybody know if there is anything I can do to get out of the log book thing because they didn’t tell me I needed one? I doubt there is, but I thought I’d ask anyway.

Maybe instead of real dates, use startrek “star dates”.
And the odometer readings should start from zero. That’ll fuck ‘em.

It took me over 2 months of going to their office every few days to get my car rego transferred from NSW to QLD and renewed. Every time I went back there was another inspection I needed to get done, which they had not mentioned at all previously. And then I had to get some $450 inspection done to prove it wasn’t a stolen car and was roadworthy etc. Let’s just ignore the fact that NSW rego requires you to have detailed inspections EVERY YEAR before you can re-register it (whereas QLD doesn’t have any annual checks). So, considering my car had passed the NSW checks every year, wouldn’t one think it was roadworthy? Oh, and the fact I’ve owned my car for about 6 years….yes QLD Transport, it could potentially be a stolen vehicle I pinched 6 years ago and which hasn’t been reported. Morons.

Not to mention the wait times when you go to their offices! I’ve often waited well over an hour in the queue. Not an incredible efficient system in my opinion.

It really is one giant circus run by mentally retarded monkeys on unicycles.