{"id":3179,"date":"2017-10-09T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2019-02-05T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T11:20:07","slug":"what-are-the-rules-for-using-l-plates-for-a-learner-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/what-are-the-rules-for-using-l-plates-for-a-learner-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the rules for using L plates for a learner driver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learner drivers must use an L plate on the front and back of the car or van so that they can be seen easily. Drivers in Wales can use a D plate. Motorbike riders only need to have the L plate on the rear of the motorbike.<\/p>\n<p>Both types of plates must have a red L or D on a white background and must be the exact size shown below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3185\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3185\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3185\" src=\"http:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/l-plate.png\" alt=\"L plate dimensions\" width=\"690\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/l-plate.png 690w, https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/l-plate-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/l-plate-600x508.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L plate dimensions<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can purchase properly sized L plates at many different stores and outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Not using the correct sized L plates, or not using them at all means you could get up to 6 penalty points.<\/p>\n<p>You should only use the L plates when a learner is driving.<\/p>\n<p>New drivers can use an optional P plate in green, as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3186\" src=\"http:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/p-plate-provisional-driver-600x349.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/p-plate-provisional-driver-600x349.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/p-plate-provisional-driver-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/p-plate-provisional-driver-768x446.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/p-plate-provisional-driver.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learner drivers must use an L plate on the front and back of the car or van so that they can be seen easily. Drivers in Wales can use a D plate. Motorbike riders only need to have the L<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/what-are-the-rules-for-using-l-plates-for-a-learner-driver\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice","tag-learner-driver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mocktheorytest.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}