Darcy Davis lives in Heyfield in regional Victoria and says it is unfair he has to travel to a VicRoads office in Melbourne sit his driver's licence test.
All regional VicRoads offices are currently closed due to COVID-19 restrictions and if people need to sit for their licence they need to travel to Deer Park, Mooroolbark, Pakenham or Werribee.
Darcy cannot drive further than the driveway as he recently failed his driver's licence test after attempting it in Melbourne.
"Failing my licence was devastating. I couldn't believe it," he said.
Darcy said he believed that being tested for his licence on city roads that he was unfamiliar was the reason that he failed.
"If I was going for my licence in my area I would have got it," he said.
"Exams make you nervous and the ones I did at school were always about what we had already learned [but] I'd never driven where my test was.
"It's not like you go from your learner's to your full licence, you're still learning, so I shouldn't have to all of a sudden know how to drive, in an exam, in Melbourne."
VicRoads grants drive test exemptions
VicRoads head of registration and licencing, Dean Tillipson, said the organisation was operating on the advice of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Based on the latest medical advice, light vehicle drive tests and all computer-based licence testing are suspended and it is unknown when drive tests will go back to normal.
"We're currently working on a plan to move forward," Mr Tillipson said.
In the meantime, drivers who can prove that they need to sit a drive test can apply for an exemption.
Darcy was able to prove that he needed his licence for work so, under a COVID-19 hardship exemption, he was granted dispensation to do his test.
He and his mum, Simone Bradley-Smith, a truck and excavator driver, had to take the day off work and drove 200 kilometres to Melbourne.
"I don't understand why going to Melbourne is seen as a better option," Ms Bradley-Smith said.
"Aren't we travelling around the state and more likely to spread COVID?
"Darcy’s a great driver, he always has been, and he has to have his licence for work."
