Driving with your permit — Massachusetts Permit Test

You must carry your learner's permit whenever you drive, until you earn a Junior Operator's License or a full license.

Practicing without the permit on you is driving unlicensed as far as the stop goes. It costs nothing to keep it in a pocket.

You must carry your learner's permit whenever you drive until you earn a Junior Operator's License or a full driver's license.

The licensed operator with a Class D permit holder must sit in the passenger seat next to them, be at least 21, and have at least one year of driving experience.

Sitting in the back is not supervising. The seat beside the driver is the only place the supervisor can reach the wheel or the brake from.

You must be accompanied by a licensed operator who occupies the passenger seat next to you and is at least 21 years old, holds a valid driver's license from Massachusetts or another state, and has at least one year of driving experience.

A permit holder under 18 may not drive between 12:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. unless a parent or legal guardian is with them.

The permit curfew starts at midnight and the license curfew starts at half past. Getting the two the wrong way round is how a legal drive becomes an illegal one.

If you are under 18, you may not drive between 12:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian who is a validly licensed operator with at least one year of driving experience.

A Class M permit holder may not carry a passenger and may ride only during daylight hours, between sunrise and sunset.

A motorcycle permit is for learning to balance a machine, not for carrying somebody while you learn. Darkness is taken out of the picture for the same reason.

A Class M learner’s permit allows you to operate a motorcycle with these limitations: • You may not carry a passenger. • You can drive only during daylight hours (between sunrise and sunset).

A Class M permit holder must wear a US DOT standard helmet.

The helmet standard is federal, so a novelty shell that looks the part is not one. It is the difference between a survivable fall and a fatal one.

You must wear a US DOT standard helmet.

A Class M permit holder must wear eyeglasses, goggles, or a protective face shield unless the motorcycle has a windshield or screen.

At highway speed a stone or an insect in the eye takes the rider off the road. The screen on the machine does the same job as the one on your face.

You must wear eyeglasses, goggles, or a protective face shield unless the motorcycle you are driving has a windshield or screen.

You may drive in another state on a Massachusetts permit as long as doing so does not break that state's laws.

A permit does not stop at the border, but the rules on the other side are theirs. Checking before crossing is cheaper than being stopped on the far side.

With a Class D or Class M learner's permit, you may operate motor vehicles in another state as long as doing so does not violate that state's laws.

What must a permit holder carry whenever they drive?

Their learner's permit. Practicing without the permit on you is driving unlicensed as far as the stop goes. It costs nothing to keep it in a pocket. Massachusetts Driver's Manual, p.18: “You must carry your learner's permit whenever you drive until you earn a Junior Operator's License or a full driver's license.”