Alberta official handbook
Alberta Commercial Driver's Guide 2026
The official Commercial Driver's Guide that Alberta Transportation publishes for this test, 143 pages, linked directly from the agency.
- Pages
- 143
- Published by
- Alberta Transportation
Read the handbook
Opens on the Alberta Transportation website. We link to the agency rather than hosting a copy, so you always get the current version.
Commercial Driver's Guide: Trucks, Buses, Emergency Responders and Taxis · 143 pages, 1.8 MB
All documents are hosted by Alberta Transportation, not by us. Visit the Alberta Transportation handbook page.
Why the Alberta handbook is worth reading once
Every question on the Class 7 knowledge test comes from what Alberta Transportation publishes in this handbook. Our 365 practice questions for Alberta are written from it too, so reading it once and then testing yourself is faster than doing either alone.
Read it end to end once, then use practice questions to find the parts you have not absorbed.
What the Alberta handbook covers
These 143 pages are the whole of what the test can draw on. Reading the list below is a quick way to find the parts you have not looked at yet.
- Commercial licence classes and the endorsements on top of them
- Medical requirements and how often you are reassessed
- Air brakes: the system, the checks and the warnings
- Pre-trip and en-route inspections
- Hours of service and logbooks
- Cargo securement, weights and dimensions
- Off-tracking, turning and reversing a long vehicle
- Downgrades, brake fade and mountain driving
- Transporting dangerous goods
- Impaired driving rules that are stricter for commercial drivers
- Sharing the road from a cab, and the blind spots a car cannot see
Alberta test facts
Every figure here is Alberta Transportation's own for the Class 7 knowledge test, not a national average. Provinces genuinely differ, and studying another province's number is a common way to fail.
- Total questions
- 30 multiple-choice
- Pass mark
- 83% (25 of 30)
- Time limit
- No time limit
- Primary licence class
- Class 1 (Tractor-Trailer)
- Pre-licence training
- Yes (MELT)
- Administered by
- Alberta Transportation
- BAC limit
- 0.00 (zero tolerance)
Source and edition
This is the Commercial Driver's Guide: Trucks, Buses, Emergency Responders and Taxis, published by Alberta Transportation. It runs to 143 pages. We link to the agency's own file rather than republishing it, so what you open is whatever they currently publish, and we last checked the link on 2026-07-31. The authoritative copy is always the agency's own: view it on the Alberta Transportation website.