Authorized driver exam practice in English 2026: 46 free questions
Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) does not publish a question count, a numeric pass mark or a time limit for the Authorized driver exam. This free practice hub has 46 questions with the answer, an explanation and a citation. Source: SAAQ, Taxi and Automobile Treated as a Taxi, checked 2026-08-28.
The full test comes first because it is the one that tells you where you stand, and it is free here. A test with no sourced question count gets no full length run rather than an invented one.
The number beside each subject is how many questions we have written on it for Quebec taxi. A subject appears here once there are enough of them to be worth sitting down with.
A sample of 10 questions from the Authorized driver exam bank, spread across its subjects and shown in full before you start.
Sample question 1Road signs
You are carrying a fare who asks to get out beside a busy hotel entrance. What must you do here?
Correct answer: Continue to a nearby place where stopping is permitted
You must not stop in the signed area unless traffic control requires it. A taxi paused for payment or unloading still blocks the curb and can obstruct moving traffic or people trying to cross. Hazard lights and a short wait do not cancel the restriction, so take the passenger to the nearest place where stopping is permitted.
Highway Safety Code (Quebec)
Sample question 2Rules of the road
You are waiting at a taxi stand when a passenger waves urgently from farther along the sidewalk. Traffic is moving beside you. How should you pull out to collect them?
Correct answer: Signal, wait for a safe gap, and yield to traffic already in the lane
You must yield to vehicles already using the traffic lane when you pull away from a taxi stand or any other curb. Those drivers may be too close to slow safely when your taxi starts moving into their path. A waiting passenger and an active turn signal show your intention, but neither gives you the right of way.
Highway Safety Code (Quebec)
Sample question 3Rules of the road
You are stopped at a red light on the island of Montreal. Your passenger urges you to turn right because the road looks clear. What should you do?
Correct answer: Wait for the green light before turning right
Right turns on a red light are prohibited everywhere on the island of Montreal, even when the road appears clear. The ban gives every driver the same predictable response at the signal and protects people crossing from an unexpected turn. A passenger's hurry does not change the rule, so you must wait for green rather than treat the red as permission to turn.
Highway Safety Code (Quebec)
Sample question 4Rules of the road
A business passenger in Gatineau says their flight is closing soon and urges you to hurry through busy traffic. How should you respond?
Correct answer: Keep a safe speed and following distance
A passenger's deadline does not change your duty to choose a safe speed and following distance. Traffic can slow or stop without warning, and urgency leaves you no extra road when a hazard appears. Staying below the posted limit is not enough if you have shortened the gap ahead.
Highway Safety Code (Quebec)
Sample question 5Rules of the road
You are between fares downtown when dispatch says a passenger may emerge soon. The building has no open curb space, but traffic is moving slowly.
Correct answer: Use an authorized taxi stand or another lawful waiting place nearby
Waiting for a fare belongs at a lawful stopping place or an authorized taxi stand. Holding a travel lane makes traffic change course around a stationary vehicle and can hide pedestrians entering the road. Dispatch saying that a passenger may appear soon does not create permission to wait in the lane, even when you remain behind the wheel.
Highway Safety Code (Quebec)
Sample question 6Rules of the road
You are ending a late fare outside a closed storefront. Your passenger is visibly intoxicated, unsteady, and asks to be left alone at the curb.
Correct answer: Check that the passenger can reach a safe place before ending the trip
Your duty of care continues until a vulnerable passenger is left in a reasonably safe situation. An intoxicated or unwell person may fall, wander into traffic, or be unable to enter a locked building after you leave. Reaching the requested address does not justify abandoning the passenger at an unsafe curb, although you should seek help rather than force a new destination.
Highway Safety Code (Quebec)
Sample question 7Rules of the road
You finish a late shift in Laval with a new hire who still has a probationary licence. They ask if a drink before driving home is acceptable. What do you say?
Correct answer: They must not drink any alcohol before driving
A probationary licence holder must have no alcohol in their body when driving. This restriction applies after work as it does during a shift, because even a small amount can impair judgement and reaction. The general adult limit that applies to an experienced driver does not apply to your trainee.
Highway Safety Code (Quebec)
Sample question 8Rules of the road
You have just received your Class 5 licence and plan to start driving a taxi tomorrow. You have not applied for the separate driver permit. Can you begin work?
Correct answer: No, you need 12 months or more of driving on a Class 5 licence or higher, then the authorized driver permit
Driving a taxi requires both the ordinary passenger vehicle licence and a SAAQ authorized driver permit supported by the required qualifying experience. The separate permit confirms that a driver carrying paying passengers has met the additional entry conditions for that work. Receiving the regular licence does not let you begin immediately, and time on a probationary licence does not count toward the permit requirement.
Highway Safety Code (Quebec)
Sample question 9Rules of the road
You are driving a passenger along Sherbrooke Street when they stop answering and their breathing looks wrong. What should you do first?
Correct answer: Pull over safely and call emergency services
When a passenger becomes unresponsive or appears to be breathing abnormally, you must stop safely and call emergency services. Paramedics can start care and direct you while an urgent drive through traffic could endanger the passenger and everyone nearby. Do not attempt to make the hospital run yourself, even when it feels faster.
Highway Safety Code (Quebec)
Sample question 10Rules of the road
As the legal winter period begins, you start a shift in a taxi leased from your dispatch company. Its all-season tires have good tread. What should you do?
Correct answer: Make sure proper winter tires are fitted to every wheel before driving
The person driving a road vehicle must ensure that proper winter tires are fitted to every wheel during the legal winter period. That duty follows the driver because tire grip affects steering and braking as soon as the taxi enters traffic. The company's ownership and the remaining tread on all-season tires do not transfer or remove your responsibility.
Highway Safety Code (Quebec)
What sits behind these runs
Every question here was written against the handbook and the legislation that Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) publishes, and every one carries the reason for its answer and the section it rests on.
Questions written
46
On road signs
15
On the rules
31
Subjects covered
3
All four figures are counted from the questions themselves when the site is built, rather than typed in by hand.
None of them is copied from another practice site, and none is generated from an unnamed source. If a question looks wrong to you, it may be wrong: say which one and what you think it should say, through the corrections route on the methodology page, and it gets checked against the source rather than argued about.
Read through an Internet Archive copy of the SAAQ page captured on 2026-08-13, because the SAAQ turns away visitors from outside Canada. The French page is cited because it is the version the SAAQ updates first.
