Canotek is your centre
Eight minutes from Place d’Orléans and straight down the 174. It runs G2 and G road tests only, which is almost certainly what you need.
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Interlock road test car for Orléans drivers
The closest part of the city to us, and to Canotek. If you are booked at Canotek, this is a ten-minute morning rather than a cross-town one.
Getting to the test
What Orléans drivers need to know
We are on the same road
592 Montreal Road to Canotek Road is 3.8 km and about six minutes. Of everywhere we go, this is the one we know best.
The interlock installer is there too
ALCOLOCK lists an Ottawa service centre at 5340 Canotek Road, the same road as the DriveTest centre. Convenient if a calibration is due around your test date.
No Saturday tests at Canotek
It is the one thing that sends Orléans drivers west. Canotek runs Monday to Friday only. If a weekday is impossible, book Walkley and we will meet you there instead — it makes no difference to the car or the price.
The two Ottawa centres
Where we take the car
Both are standard, and neither costs more than the other. Whichever gave you the earlier date is the right one.
Walkley Road
South Ottawa
- Address
- 1570 Walkley Rd, Ottawa, ON K1V 6P5
- From our school
- 12.5 km, about 16 minutes
- Road tests
- Every licence class, including G2 and G
- Worth knowing
- The only Ottawa centre running Saturday road tests
Quote for Walkley Road
Cars free
Canotek Road
East Ottawa
- Address
- 5303 Canotek Rd, Unit 14, Ottawa, ON K1J 9M1
- From our school
- 3.8 km, about 6 minutes
- Road tests
- G2 and G road tests only
- Worth knowing
- Closest centre to us, straight out Montreal Road
Quote for Canotek Road
Cars free
What we cover from here
Avalon, Fallingbrook, Chapel Hill, Convent Glen, Queenswood Heights, Notting Gate and Cardinal Creek.
If you are still working out what you need, start with renting an interlock car for your road test or the ten-hour ignition interlock training course. The rules behind all of it are set out in taking your road test with an “I” condition, and ignition interlock road test cars across Ontario are listed on one page. Drivers near you often also read about an interlock road test car in Gatineau and an interlock road test car in Kanata.
How the day runs
Test morning, from Orléans
This is the shortest morning we run. We come out of 592 Montreal Road, you come down the 174, and both of us are at Canotek inside fifteen minutes of leaving.
The practice hour uses the industrial grid around Canotek Road and the residential streets off Innes, which is where the examiners actually take people. Because it is close to us, we can usually accommodate a same-week change of time if DriveTest moves your slot — something we cannot promise anywhere else.
The car itself is the same everywhere: certified interlock, insured for a road test, unmarked, automatic, fresh mouthpiece. The full specification is on the road-test car page.
You might not need a road test at all
Before you book anything from Orléans, check how long your licence was invalid. It is the only thing that decides whether a road test is required at all, and we would rather tell you now than take a booking you do not need.
- 1–3 yrs
- Eye test only — no road test. A first conviction carries a minimum one-year suspension, so most first-time drivers land here.
- 3–10 yrs
- Knowledge test, eye test and two road tests, with no mandatory waiting between them. This is who we are for.
- 10+ yrs
- You reapply as a new driver and serve every graduated licensing waiting period. No fast-tracking.
Questions
From Orléans drivers
How early do you arrive at Canotek?
Sixty minutes before your slot, same as everywhere. Canotek is six minutes from our door, so if DriveTest moves your time at short notice we can usually still make it.
Is the Canotek interlock installer the same as your device?
No. ALCOLOCK’s service centre at 5340 Canotek Road handles your own leased unit. The device in our car is ours, on our own service schedule.
Which Ottawa centre is closest to Orléans?
Canotek Road, roughly 8 minutes from Place d’Orléans. It handles G2 and G road tests only. Walkley Road handles every licence class but is a further 25 minutes west.
Can I do the ten-hour course in Orléans?
Yes. It is the area we cover most easily, and the roads around Canotek are where the test itself happens, so the practice is directly useful.
Availability & pricing
Send the date. We’ll confirm the car.
Tell us the date, the centre and whether it is a G2 or a G. We check the car and an instructor against that slot and quote it in writing, usually the same day.
- Answered the same day, Monday to Saturday
- A written figure with everything included
- If you don’t need a road test, we’ll tell you that instead
Phone is faster. Someone answers Monday to Saturday, evenings included.