New Brunswick official handbook
New Brunswick Driver's Handbook 2026: car and light truck drivers
One publication in New Brunswick covers several licence classes, 87 pages in total. This page pulls out what matters to car and light truck drivers.
- Pages
- 87
- Documents
- 7
- Published by
- Service New Brunswick (SNB)
New Brunswick publishes this handbook in nine parts and no combined document. Parts 1 to 7 cover the passenger knowledge test.
Read the handbook, 7 parts
Service New Brunswick (SNB) publishes 7 separate files and no combined document. Each one opens on the agency website, so you always get the current version.
01Part 1: Licensing of drivers15 pages, 670 KB
02Part 2: Registration of vehicles4 pages, 272 KB
03Part 3: Equipment5 pages, 245 KB
04Part 4: Rules of the road21 pages, 1.4 MB
05Part 5: Safe driving23 pages, 1.8 MB
06Part 6: Sharing the road9 pages, 332 KB
07Part 7: Traffic signs10 pages, 699 KB
All documents are hosted by Service New Brunswick (SNB), not by us. Visit the Service New Brunswick (SNB) handbook page.
Why car and light truck drivers should read the New Brunswick handbook once
Every question on the Class 7 knowledge test comes from what Service New Brunswick (SNB) publishes in this handbook. Our 175 practice questions for New Brunswick are written from it too, so reading it once and then testing yourself is faster than doing either alone.
You do not have to read all 7 parts at once. Take the rules of the road and the signs first, then come back for licensing and registration.
What the New Brunswick handbook covers for car and light truck drivers
These 87 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.
- Getting your licence and the graduated licensing stages
- Traffic signs, signals and pavement markings
- Rules of the road, right of way and intersections
- Speed limits and following distance
- Turning, passing, lane changes and merging
- Parking rules and prohibited distances
- Sharing the road with cyclists, pedestrians and large vehicles
- School buses and emergency vehicles
- Impaired driving and the penalties that follow
- Winter, night and poor-visibility driving
- Collisions, breakdowns and what the law requires of you
New Brunswick test facts for car and light truck drivers
Every figure here is Service New Brunswick (SNB)'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
- 40 multiple-choice
- Pass mark
- 80% (32 of 40)
- Time limit
- No time limit
- Minimum age
- 16
- Languages
- English and French (officially bilingual)
- Administered by
- Service New Brunswick
- Retake waiting period
- Same day at most centres
Source and edition
This is the Part 1: Licensing of drivers, published by Service New Brunswick (SNB). It runs to 87 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 Service New Brunswick (SNB) website.