Northwest Territories official handbook
Northwest Territories Professional Driver's Manual 2026
Northwest Territories publishes this handbook as 2 separate documents rather than one file, 322 pages in total. Every part is linked below.
- Edition
- Revised March 2018
- Pages
- 322
- Documents
- 2
- Published by
- Department of Infrastructure, GNWT
Read the handbook, 2 parts
Department of Infrastructure, GNWT publishes 2 separate files and no combined document. Each one opens on the agency website, so you always get the current version.
All documents are hosted by Department of Infrastructure, GNWT, not by us. Visit the Department of Infrastructure, GNWT handbook page.
Sources and changes
How we check this handbook against the agency's own file, and what has changed in it.
Department of Infrastructure, GNWTRevised March 2018
Official source: Department of Infrastructure, GNWT- Last checked
- Oct 19, 2026
- How we check
- Monitored regularly
Latest changes
No changes recorded yet.
Sunny breaks the Northwest Territories handbook into short lessons in plain language, plays them aloud if you like, and checks what you remember before moving on.
Why the Northwest Territories handbook is worth reading once
Every question on the Class 7 knowledge exam comes from what Department of Infrastructure, GNWT publishes in this handbook. Our 338 practice questions for Northwest Territories 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 2 parts at once. Take the rules of the road and the signs first, then come back for licensing and registration.
What the Northwest Territories handbook covers
These 322 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
Northwest Territories test facts
Every figure here is Department of Infrastructure, GNWT's own for the Class 7 knowledge exam, 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 (Entry Level Training)
- Administered by
- Department of Infrastructure, GNWT