Queenslanders caught using their phone while driving twice in a year will face tougher penalties as part of a road safety crackdown.

From September, double demerit points will be issued for two or more mobile phone offences committed within one year, similar to current arrangements for repeat seatbelt, motorcycle helmet and high-range speeding offences.

A repeat offence will cost learner drivers or P-platers their licence.

Road Safety Minister Mark Bailey said it is part of a concerted push to change dangerous driving habits.

He said there was strong evidence that 75 per cent of drivers used their phones at some point in the car.

"This is a great danger to other road users and it has to stop," he said.

"We make no apologies for being tough on people who are using mobile phones in their cars."

The changes follow a road safety forum held last month in response to Queensland's shocking Easter road toll.

The Government said the tougher penalties for phone use are just one part of their eight-point road safety plan.

The plan includes prioritising motorbike safety with an advertising campaign, introducing motorbike licensing reforms, forming a citizens' taskforce to report road safety issues to the Government, and a youth program to engage people aged 16 to 24 in road safety.

Dangerous unregistered cars and unlicensed drivers will be subject to stricter monitoring by police, officers will get more training in road safety and there will be a new Queensland Road Safety Week in August.

Police Minister Jo-Ann Miller said the Queensland Police Service would investigate expanding automatic number plate recognition technology in police vehicles.

"For too long, dangerous unregistered and unlicensed drivers have been over-represented in crash statistics," she said.

Professor Narelle Haworth from Queensland University of Technology said using a mobile phone while driving could be as bad as drink-driving.

"Distraction is the looming problem," she said.