I ask because as I have said before we are considering a move, but obviously I will need to work. The only thing I have ever been any good at is driving and it is the only thing I have ever wanted to do, oh and the only thing I am trained in!
So does my UK truck licence cover me to drive trucks in Canada??
WHITE L400 EXCEED HIGH ROOF 7 seater
Now back on the road
EXCHANGING AN OUT-OF-COUNTRY LICENCE
Ministry of Transportation Requirements for Recognizing Driving Experience for Out-of-Country Applicants
Below is the ministry’s policy regarding recognizing driving experience for applicants from jurisdictions that do not have a reciprocal driver’s licence agreement with Ontario.
This policy does not apply for drivers from the following jurisdictions:
Canadian provinces or territories;
Canadian Forces Europe;
U.S. States; and,
Austria, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Korea and Switzerland.
jfarsang wrote:So long as you've had a full license as an adult for a consecutive 12 months, then all you'd have to do is take the driving exam in BC. That's it.
It's simple and mature drivers from other countries to it all the time.
I think it depends on the country quite a bit, I remember once in the MTO office in Ontario some lady that was like 40 being told that her license from Poland, I think, didn't allow her to skip the graduated crap.
Drooper wrote:Does that include my truck licence??
Any other type of driver's licence?
You will need to qualify for a B.C. licence if your driver's licence —
is from a jurisdiction other than B.C. and does not meet the Canadian, American, Austrian, German, Swiss, Japanese or South Korean licence criteria above, or
does meet the Canadian, American, Austrian, German, Swiss, Japanese or South Korean licence criteria but you've had your full-privilege licence for less than 24 months (see note, above), or
has expired more than 3 years ago, or
has been cancelled or revoked.
To qualify for a B.C. licence, you will need to pass a road signs test, a knowledge test, a vision screening and a road test. You will also need to meet the medical and application requirements.
Here's the process:
1. Review the appropriate ICBC driving guide:
RoadSense for Drivers (for Class 5, 7 or 7L -- passenger vehicles)
Tuning Up (for Class 5 or 7 -- passenger vehicles)
RoadSense for Riders (for Class 6, 8 or 8L -- motorcycles)
Tuning Up for Riders (for Class 6 or 8 -- motorcycles)
Driving Commercial Vehicles (for Class 1, 2, 3 or 4).
These are available at any ICBC driver licensing office. They can also be downloaded from this Web site. Also consider taking driver training.
it sounds to me like the bigger question is whether they will do it for higher classes of license, eg. if he's allowed to drive an 18 wheeler over there, will they let him do the same here or downgrade him to just his Delica...
of course I also don't know what he means by "truck" a standard license in Canada allows you to drive even 5 ton trucks as long as they don't have air brakes... if you want to drive something with air brakes or more than 2 axles though you need a higher class of license
Well, if you know the drill you can go with some options. I came from Ukraine in 1995 with the driver license issued in the USSR in 1991 and a paper that stated that I did not have accidents for the last 4 years. I got 40% discount from ICBC and was driving for a full year pretending that I had an 'international' driver license (in some unexplained reason it had 'driver license' written in Spanish on the top). During that period I had an accident (another as%^$e was driving on red). No deductible paid, no problems with the driver license etc. At the end of 1 year period during a routine road check I was told that my license expires soon. I said : "Yes, sir!" and went through the knowledge test and the road test and got the BC license. Simple.
Your UK driver license will be valid for 6 month as class 5 but for class 1 you must get a BC license.
Drooper wrote:Does that include my truck licence??
Any other type of driver's licence?
You will need to qualify for a B.C. licence if your driver's licence —
is from a jurisdiction other than B.C. and does not meet the Canadian, American, Austrian, German, Swiss, Japanese or South Korean licence criteria above, or
does meet the Canadian, American, Austrian, German, Swiss, Japanese or South Korean licence criteria but you've had your full-privilege licence for less than 24 months (see note, above), or
has expired more than 3 years ago, or
has been cancelled or revoked.
To qualify for a B.C. licence, you will need to pass a road signs test, a knowledge test, a vision screening and a road test. You will also need to meet the medical and application requirements.
Here's the process:
1. Review the appropriate ICBC driving guide:
RoadSense for Drivers (for Class 5, 7 or 7L -- passenger vehicles)
Tuning Up (for Class 5 or 7 -- passenger vehicles)
RoadSense for Riders (for Class 6, 8 or 8L -- motorcycles)
Tuning Up for Riders (for Class 6 or 8 -- motorcycles) Driving Commercial Vehicles (for Class 1, 2, 3 or 4).
These are available at any ICBC driver licensing office. They can also be downloaded from this Web site. Also consider taking driver training.
Hey Drooper, when I came back from the UK in '88 I was told that one could drive in BC with a foreign license for six months before having to get a BC license and that if one had an international license, one could drive for a year before having to get a BC license. Because I had one of the first Euro licenses (the pink one, not the green one) that technically made it "international". So I was able to drive for a year before having to take the test.
When I did eventually take the test, compared to the UK test, it was a piece of cake. I got 97%. Of the three wrong I argued two of them: One, I had my wheels pointed in the wrong direction when parking on a hill with no curb (I acquiesced to that one); two, the examiner said I was too close to the stop line at a four way stop (I argued); three, I kept the car in 2nd gear, running at 2,250 RPM 'cause there was a red light in fifty yards ~ he thought I should've shifted to third (I argued that I didn't wish to carbonize my engine). However I realised that I had passed the test so I didn't argue that much.
I don't know what hoops one must leap through now but I imagine it won't have changed that much. Just remember that when you are dealing with the motor vehicle branch, you are dealing with the province that you are moving to, not Canada, at least for your basic class 5. Here are two websites, one regarding the BC government and the other regarding Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC):
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