Québec Driving a Heavy Vehicle 2026

Why the Québec handbook is worth reading once

Every question on the SAAQ knowledge test comes from what Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) publishes in this handbook. Our 335 practice questions for Québec 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 Québec handbook covers

These 442 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

Québec test facts

Every figure here is Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ)'s own for the SAAQ 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

Varies - see official site

Administered by

Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ)

Alcohol limit

Zero for bus, minibus and taxi drivers