By Amarjit Kang — Owner & instructor, Caledon Truck Driving School Ltd.
If you’re planning to get your AZ licence, mark this date: January 1, 2027. The Ministry of Transportation is changing who is eligible to take a Full Class A road test — and if you got your full G licence recently, this rule decides when your road test can happen. DriveTest has now notified training providers of the change, and here is exactly what it says, in plain language.
The new rule, in plain language
Beginning January 1, 2027, to complete a Full Class A road test, you must have at least 183 days — six months — of valid full Class G or higher licence experience from Ontario or another Canadian province or territory.
A few details that matter:
- It applies to every Full Class A road test — manual and automatic transmission alike.
- The six-month clock starts the date you first obtained your full Ontario Class G licence.
- The six months must total at least six months of valid licence time within a 12-month period — and it does not need to be consecutive.
- Driving experience from outside Canada does not count — including experience from the United States.
Who is NOT affected
This change is narrower than it first sounds:
- Class A Restricted road tests are not affected.
- Other commercial classes are not affected: B, C, D, D RV, E, and F.
- Experienced drivers from other provinces: if you have at least 24 months of full Class G or higher experience within the previous three years in another Canadian province or territory, you may already satisfy the requirement.
- And if you have held your full G for years — like most of our students — nothing changes for you at all.
The costly mistake to avoid
Here is the part that can cost you money. You are allowed to book your road test before your six months are up — but the test date itself must fall after your 183 days are complete.
If you arrive at your road test without the required experience, the appointment will be cancelled and you will forfeit 50% of the pre-paid road test fee.
In other words: the booking is not the problem — the date is. Count your days before you pick your test date.
What this means if you’re planning your AZ
The good news: your training does not have to wait. MELT training takes roughly six weeks, and nothing in the new rule stops you from starting — it only sets the earliest date your road test can happen.
Do the simple math:
- Find the date you first got your full G.
- Add 183 days. That is your earliest Class A road test date.
- Plan your training so you finish ready to test on or after that date.
Got your G in September 2026? You would be eligible in early March 2027 — start training in January and your timing lines up. Got your G years ago? Book as normal.
How we plan it at Caledon
At Caledon Truck Driving School, we now check every new student’s full-G date at registration and build the training schedule and road test booking around this rule — so nobody loses a test date, or half a test fee, to a calendar mistake. Our next AZ MELT starts are Monday, November 30, 2026, Monday, December 28, 2026, and Friday, January 15, 2027.
Not sure when your 183 days are up, or whether your out-of-province experience counts? Call us before you register and we will work it out with you in five minutes.
Call 905-965-9595 — we’ll plan your dates properly.
Caledon Truck Driving School Ltd. is a registered private career college under the Ontario Career Colleges Act, 2005. Start dates are subject to change and seats are limited. Employment is not guaranteed.
