What class license do you have?

[spikerS]

6=motorcycle

[diamondedge]

5 non GDL.

If you intend on teaching a class 7, you need to have your non-GDL license.

[schurchill39]

16 for me. I will more than likely maintain the 1. To me its worth the $100 every 5 years.


I got my 7 on my 14th birthday, my 5 on 16th birthday, off GDL on my 18th birthday and a week after that I got my 1. I just got my 6 this summer.

Funny thing, when I moved to SK they still have the airbrake endorsement for a class 1 right on the license, but because the Alberta license only had the 1 then they put that on the SK license. Then I got accused of having a fake license because "why would you have the 1 without the A. It should be a 1A if it was a real license".

[snowcat]

56

[Mista Bob]

Class 56, still on GDL. See no reason to get rid of the GDL.

[Gman.45]

No idea what GDL is, didn't have that when I moved to AB and transferred license from ONT back in 93. My original license was from SK, 5 with the M motorbike endorsement, which became a 56 in AB, and just rolled with that ever since.

[schurchill39]

Originally posted by Gman.45
No idea what GDL is, didn't have that when I moved to AB and transferred license from ONT back in 93. My original license was from SK, 5 with the M motorbike endorsement, which became a 56 in AB, and just rolled with that ever since.

GDL is a graduated licensing system where you have special provisions once you get your "full license" for a certain period of time to prove you're a safe driver. Nearly all of the Provinces have their own versions of it, some require a secondary test at the end of the GDL term in order to get off of it, others don't. Alberta requires you take a second test then reclass your license. Some people choose to stay on GDL because they don't want to pay the money, which is fine if you intend to stay a class 5 driver, but if you want to upgrade to a 1, 2, 3, or 4 you need to be off of it.

Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
B.C.
Ontario
Quebec
Nova Scotia
PEI
New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Yukon, NWT and Nunavut too (the website won't load but the google description confirms it)