Driving Lessons Oaklands Junction

Coolaroo VicRoads, at 12/1530 Pascoe Vale Road, Coolaroo. It is about 13.2 kilometres south east, roughly sixteen minutes, and it is where your driving instructor will prepare you and where your drive test is booked.

No. Broadmeadows VicRoads does not conduct drive tests. It is open and handles other VicRoads business, so it is worth knowing it is there for everything else, but drive tests from Oaklands Junction are at Coolaroo VicRoads.

Partly here and partly nearby, and we are straightforward about that. The quieter rural roads around the junction are where a first driving lesson starts, and then we use the residential streets in Greenvale and Craigieburn, which are a short drive away. With a few hundred people in the whole locality there simply is not a suburban grid to work on.

About 13.2 kilometres, or roughly sixteen minutes south east on Somerton Road and Mickleham Road. The roads are open, so it moves faster than the same distance would in the suburbs.

Yes for ordinary learner driving lessons, and out here that is what nearly everyone does. For drive test preparation it does not add up: sixteen minutes each way is more than half of a 60 minute driving lesson. Meeting your driving instructor at Coolaroo VicRoads, or booking a 90 minute driving lesson, is how that time gets used.

It is different rather than harder, and it makes you a better driver. Without a kerb or a centre line you place the car by judgement instead of by following paint, and higher speeds mean you plan further ahead. Learners who start out here are usually very steady on country roads later on.

Craigieburn Road, Oaklands Road and Konagaderra Road meet there, and it is the one piece of road every local driver uses constantly. We spend proper time on it, because a junction you use every day should be something you do without thinking rather than something you approach carefully each time.

They do, and we treat them as part of the driving rather than as a nuisance. Slow vehicles pulling out of farm entrances, loose gravel at the edge of the seal and dust in summer are all ordinary conditions here. Knowing how the car behaves when a wheel drops onto a gravel shoulder is genuinely worth learning with someone beside you.

Yes, and from this far out it is the arrangement that makes the most sense. The driving lesson runs immediately before the drive test on the roads the testing officers use, so a sixteen minute drive is not sitting between your preparation and your drive test. It is also the best price we offer.

Mostly the road environment rather than the driving. Higher rural speed limits, roads with no kerb or centre line, and vehicles entering from farm gates. We work through the Victorian road rules first and then put them on the roads around your testing office.

It is an unusual one that produces confident open road drivers. What it lacks is suburban practice, which is why driving lessons range into Greenvale and Craigieburn as a matter of course. Between the two you end up with a broader range than most learners get.

Not really here, and that is worth saying honestly, because reverse parallel parking needs a kerb and cars parked along it. We do that part in Greenvale or Craigieburn, where the residential streets give you real gaps between real cars. Everything else, including the manoeuvres that need space, works perfectly well closer to home.