Air brake endorsement - Ontario members
Hello This question is more for the members who live in Ontario or who are familiar with our licencing requirements. Am looking to purchase a DP, which will have air brakes. From my understandi...
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The Ontario Safety League puts on Air Brake Endorsement courses. They are 2 days (usually Sat & Sun). They test you at the end and you get your Z endorsement. What you need to do is get that on your licence and then find a truck driving school. Take their course for the D licence on a gas powered school bus. Since you already have the Z endorsement you only need to add the D licence. You don't want to have to be tested by MTO for the Z endorsement in addition to the D licence. The pretrip inspection for the D licence is hard enough without having to add all the Z endorsement stuff too. Most people fail the pretrip inspection if they haven't taken a truck driving course. Driving the school bus is easy but if you can't get by the pretrip inspection you won't pass. Expect to pay about $700 - $1000 to get the D licence. The Z endorsement is about $250.
