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.
- Edition
- Spring 2025
- 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.
Sources and changes
How we check this handbook against the agency's own file, and what has changed in it.
Alberta TransportationSpring 2025
Official source: Alberta Transportation- Last checked
- Oct 19, 2026
- How we check
- Monitored regularly
Latest changes
No changes recorded yet.
Sunny breaks the Alberta handbook into short lessons in plain language, plays them aloud if you like, and checks what you remember before moving on.
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 358 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
- Not published
- Pass mark
- No published pass mark
- Time limit
- No published time limit
- Primary licence class
- Class 1 (Tractor-Trailer)
- Pre-licence training
- Yes (Class 1 Learning Pathway)
- Administered by
- Alberta Transportation
- Alcohol limit
- Zero (commercial drivers)