Newfoundland and Labrador official handbook
Newfoundland and Labrador Road Users Guide 2026: car and light truck drivers
One publication in Newfoundland and Labrador covers several licence classes, 166 pages in total. This page pulls out what matters to car and light truck drivers.
- Pages
- 166
- Published by
- Motor Registration Division (MRD)
Read the handbook
Opens on the Motor Registration Division (MRD) website. We link to the agency rather than hosting a copy, so you always get the current version.
166 pages, 4.7 MB
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Sources and changes
How we check this handbook against the agency's own file, and what has changed in it.
Motor Registration Division (MRD)Not printed by the agency
Official source: Motor Registration Division (MRD)- Last checked
- Oct 19, 2026
- How we check
- Monitored regularly
Latest changes
No changes recorded yet.
Sunny breaks the Newfoundland and Labrador handbook into short lessons in plain language, plays them aloud if you like, and checks what you remember before moving on.
Why car and light truck drivers should read the Newfoundland and Labrador handbook once
Every question on the Class 5 knowledge test comes from what Motor Registration Division (MRD) publishes in this handbook. Our 269 practice questions for Newfoundland and Labrador 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 Newfoundland and Labrador handbook covers for car and light truck drivers
These 166 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
Newfoundland and Labrador test facts for car and light truck drivers
Every figure here is Motor Registration Division (MRD)'s own for the Class 5 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 by the province
- Pass mark
- 85% (one combined test)
- Time limit
- No published time limit
- Minimum age
- 16
- Languages
- English online; French and Ukrainian at Motor Registration offices
- Administered by
- Motor Registration Division (Service NL)
- Retake waiting period
- No waiting period published; no fee for the written test