Free Printable Supervised Driving Log Templates

Print this log

Use this if your state does not publish a form of its own, or as a running record you copy onto the official form later. Print one sheet per fifteen drives and keep it in the glovebox.

This generic template is not a state form. If your state publishes an official log or certification, use theirs.

Official state forms and hour requirements

Five states are verified against their agency pages as of August 2026 and link to a full requirements page here. The rest are drawn from our state pages and marked approximate — check the agency site before you rely on a number.

Which states publish an official form

States fall into three groups, and knowing which one you are in saves an argument at the counter:

• States with a mandatory or officially published form. Massachusetts (RMV Supervised Driving Log PDF) and New York (form MV-262) both publish documents you are expected to turn up with. Texas and Florida provide log forms through their agency sites and driver education providers. Use the state's document.
• States that reference a specific app. Massachusetts and Wisconsin reference RoadReady in official materials; Ohio operates its own state-built app, RoadReady Ohio; Montana's state log PDF names RoadReady as an option. In those states, following the state's instruction is the shortest path.
• States with no required format. California is the clearest example: no mandatory form, the parent certifies the hours on the license application, and the DMV simply recommends keeping a log. Any accurate record works.

What a driving log needs to contain

• Date of each drive. Not just a weekly total — individual dated entries are what a reviewer expects.
• Duration, or start and end times you can subtract.
• Day or night, tracked separately, because almost every state sets a night minimum and it is the one families run short of.
• Conditions — highway, city, rain, heavy traffic. A few states require specific condition hours (Pennsylvania wants 5 in bad weather, South Dakota wants 10 in inclement weather).
• Supervisor identification, and usually a signature.
• A running total and a parent or guardian certification at the end.

Paper, app, or both

Paper never runs out of battery, never loses an account, and is already in the format most agencies want. Its failure mode is that it lives in a glovebox and gets lost, and that nobody adds it up until the week before the road test.

PermitReady is a free iPhone and iPad app with a supervised driving hours log: date, duration, and condition tags per drive, a running total against your state's requirement, and no account, no sign-in, and no internet needed. Entries can be backdated, so a paper log can be typed in later, and the log can be shared with a parent as a file over AirDrop, Messages, or Mail.

The honest recommendation is both. Track in the app because the running total keeps you honest about night hours, then print or transcribe onto your state's form for the signature. PermitReady does not generate a signed state affidavit, and no state has approved or rejected it as a substitute for an official form.

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