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driving commercial vehicles

During the inspection, tell your examiner what you are checking for and how
you know if each part of your vehicle is in good working order. You’ll get a trip
inspection report to fill out as part of your pre-trip inspection.

You can find more about pre-trip inspections and pre-trip inspection tests in
chapter 10, vehicle and air brake pre-trip inspections.

Road test

You must be able to demonstrate these skills competently during your road
test:
• starting and stopping

• shifting gears
• turning
• steering
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• backing up
If you’re taking a road test • parking
in an air-brake-equipped
vehicle, you must have an air • merging with highway traffic
brake endorsement on your • exiting from highways
driver’s licence or have taken
an approved air brake course • driving in traffic
and passed the knowledge
test. • coupling and uncoupling a tractor unit from a trailer — for a Class 1 road
test or heavy trailer endorsement (code 20).
During your road test, concentrate on the traffic and don’t think about what
your examiner may be recording.
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If you take your Class 1, You need to provide an appropriate vehicle when you take your road test.
2 or 3 road test using an Make sure that the vehicle meets safety standards, and that valid registration,
automatic transmission, licence and insurance papers are in the vehicle.
your Class 1, 2 or 3 driver’s
licence will be restricted to The vehicle must be representative of the licence class. The following are
automatic transmissions only. typical vehicles accepted for road tests:
• Class 4 (restricted) — any car or pickup truck

• Class 4 (unrestricted) — a full-sized passenger van or small school bus with
a seating capacity of at least 11 adults
• Class 3 — a large tandem or tridem rear axle truck such as a moving van or
dump truck
• Class 2 — a large bus with a seating capacity of at least 36 adults
• Class 2 - a bus with a seating capacity of 25-34 adults (NOT including the
driver); Restriction 51 “CL2 max 34 pass. capacity” will be added.
• Class 1 — a loaded tandem or tridem rear axle tractor trailer combination
with air brakes and with an on-road loaded weight of at least 28,000 kg.
Semi-trailer must be at least 13 metres long (7.5 metres if pintle hitch trailer).
• Heavy trailer endorsement (code 20) — a loaded truck and trailer
combination without air brakes. The trailer with its load must weigh at least
4,600 kg.

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