Our mission is to improve the lives of our students through rigorous and relevant commercial driver training, equipping them with life-changing skills that also contribute to safer roads.


Our 5 Core Principles of Instruction

1. Rigorous and Relevant Training

Instruction is grounded in industry knowledge and real-world experience to ensure training is practical, current, and meaningful.

2. Learning Is Collaborative

Instructors and students work together in a supportive environment that encourages shared knowledge, teamwork, and high expectations.

3. Real-World Application

Training focuses on practical problem-solving and real industry scenarios to prepare students for the demands of professional commercial driving.

4. Every Student Brings Value

Students arrive with unique experiences, perspectives, and strengths that enrich the learning environment and support collective growth.

5. Purposeful Assessment

Ongoing assessment guides instruction and helps both instructors and students understand progress and achieve training goals.


Training Methods That Do Not Support Student Success or Road Safety

Question Mark Learn to drive a truck through a computer screen? Never! Are you going to drive the truck through the same computer screen?

Question Mark Spend two weeks in a classroom learning to drive a desk? Should you not be at the truck? Isn't that what you are at school for?

Question Mark Crammed in with two or three other students and spend most of your time in the bunk with no seat belt waiting for your turn to drive? Exactly what are you learning looking at the back of the drivers or passenger seat?

Question Mark 2 day DZ courses? Come on! Your telling us that 2 days is all it takes to build a proper foundation of knowledge and skill that will keep all other road users around you safe? You must be joking!

Question Mark Unlimited road tests? Why would you want that and what does that say about their training program?

How about we train you properly from the get go, then you go down to DriveTest and pass on your first attempt and get moving with your new career instead of wasting your time and money with “unlimited DriveTest attempts”.

Don’t be fooled. Proper training for this safety sensitive position takes time, practice and dedication and the course material has to be taught by a proper instructor.

The only short cut in our industry is the one that is going lead you into the very next ditch or worse! Research and choose quality!


What Makes us Different?

We started North American solely to build our own drivers to run our own fleet. We had to get our training right from the outset as we and the motoring public could not afford mistakes. Today there is never a day that goes by where we don't search for constant improvement in our training program, ourselves and our instructors.


Why Choose North American?

It is our constant search for improvement that will provide you with the very best foundation from which you can build a career from. You choose North American and you choose to train for the industry and never for a test.


What students say

"Going to North American Transport Driving Academy was the best decision I have ever made, this opportunity has changed my life and I couldn’t be more grateful. Every single person I have met during this course has been absolutely great. I can’t wait to get out on the road."
– Lucas Fraser, ACZ

 

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