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How to Export and Submit Your Driving Logbook
You’ve spent months logging practice hours. Hundreds of sessions, day and night, rain and shine. Your totals finally hit the target. Now you need to prove it.
Your licensing authority doesn’t care about the app on your phone. They care about documentation. A completed logbook with correct totals, supervisor signatures, and the right day/night split. Show up without it and you’re rebooking.
What the Licensing Authority Wants
Requirements vary by state, but most want some version of this:
- A record of every supervised driving session
- Date, start time, end time, and duration for each
- Start and end odometer readings (most states)
- Whether each session was day or night
- The supervisor’s name, licence number, and signature
- Running totals for day hours, night hours, and total hours
Some states use a specific logbook format. Others accept any complete record. The key: you need a document you can hand over. Not a screenshot. Not a verbal “yeah, I did the hours.”
How Submission Works in Each State
New South Wales
What to bring: Your completed logbook (paper booklet or Roundtrip app export) to the Service NSW centre when booking your driving test.
Digital accepted? Yes. Roundtrip is the official digital logbook. Third-party app exports as printed PDFs are accepted at most centres.
What they check: 120 total hours, 20 night hours minimum, supervisor details, dates confirming the 12-month minimum learner period.
Victoria
What to bring: Your completed logbook (paper booklet or myLearners app) to your driving test appointment.
Digital accepted? Yes. VicRoads accepts myLearners or printed summaries from third-party apps.
What they check: 120 total hours, 20 night hours, supervisor validity. VicRoads may randomly audit entries.
Queensland
What to bring: Your completed logbook when applying for your P1 licence at a Queensland Transport office.
Digital accepted? Yes. The QLD Learner Logbook app is the official digital option. Printed summaries from other apps are accepted.
What they check: 100 total hours, 10 night hours, instructor bonus hours (if claimed, capped at 30 bonus hours from 10 lessons).
South Australia
What to bring: Your completed logbook to your practical test appointment at Service SA.
Digital accepted? Yes, printed summaries accepted.
What they check: 75 total hours, 15 night hours, valid supervisor details, instructor bonus hours (if claimed).
Western Australia
What to bring: Your completed logbook to your practical assessment at a licensing centre.
Digital accepted? Yes, printed summaries accepted alongside or instead of the paper booklet.
What they check: 50 total hours, 5 night hours, 6-month minimum learner period.
Tasmania
What to bring: Your completed logbook when booking your practical assessment through Service Tasmania.
Digital accepted? Yes. Plates Plus is the official app. Printed exports from other apps accepted.
What they check: 80 total hours, 15 night hours, instructor bonus hours (if claimed, 2-for-1 rate, capped at 20 bonus hours).
ACT
What to bring: Your completed logbook to Access Canberra when booking or attending your practical test.
Digital accepted? Yes, printed summaries accepted.
What they check: 120 total hours, 20 night hours, valid supervisor details.
Northern Territory
What to bring: Your completed logbook to MVR when applying for your provisional licence.
Digital accepted? Yes, printed summaries accepted.
What they check: 50 total hours, 10 night hours, 6-month minimum learner period.
Exporting from Moda
Takes about 30 seconds:
- Open Moda and go to Export from the dashboard.
- Choose PDF format.
- Moda generates a complete document with all session data: dates, times, durations, supervisor details, day/night classification, weather conditions, and totals.
- Save to Files, AirDrop, email, or share however works for you.
If your licensing centre accepts digital presentation on a phone, show the PDF directly. If they want paper, save to Files and print. Most families print a copy to be safe.
Why a Clean Export Matters
You could take the paper logbook in as-is. People do. But here’s what licensing centre staff see regularly: crossed-out entries, illegible handwriting, maths that don’t add up, missing supervisor signatures, and pages stuck together with old coffee.
Some clerks send people away to fix their logbooks and rebook. After 12 or more months of work, being turned away because your totals are wrong is brutal.
A clean, printed logbook with accurate calculations, correct day/night splits, and clear supervisor information gets processed without questions.
Tips
Export early for a sanity check. Don’t wait until the week before your test. Export a preview at the halfway mark. Check that supervisor names are spelled correctly and your night hours track with expectations.
Keep a backup. Save the exported PDF to your Files app or email it to yourself. If something happens to your phone before the test appointment, you’ve got the document.
Get signatures if required. Some states want the supervisor to physically sign the logbook. A printed PDF with typed names may not be enough. Print it and get ink signatures before your appointment.
Check your night hours. Night hours are the most common shortfall. Families regularly discover they’re 2-3 hours short when they tally up. An app that tracks this automatically avoids the surprise. Night driving guide.
When you’ve put in 120 hours of practice over the better part of a year, the last thing you want is paperwork problems at the finish line. Export it, check it, bring it. Done.