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Training & Consulting

Learn it. Build it. Drive it. Live it.

The knowledge behind the lifestyle, the fleet, and the travel, on tap. We've been doing this our entire lives. Training or consulting with us will expedite your journey.

Why Skybreaker Overland

Twenty years of expensive lessons. Yours for an afternoon.

Two Skybreaker expedition trucks on a gravel bar at dusk

We own the trucks we teach on

A working fleet, a workshop, and twenty years of living this. We have imported, built, broken and rebuilt these machines, and paid for the wrong calls with our own money. Nothing here is theory.

We bring the right expert, not the nearest one

Driver training runs with certified instructors. Lifestyle and systems training runs with the people who actually live on these systems. We match the instructor to the skill, and we tell you who is teaching before you book.

The network is the product

Builders, fabricators, importers, heavy-duty mechanics, outfitters and local operators across BC and beyond. When a question is outside our lane, we already know who to call, and we say so.

Consulting is delivered by Ryan, our founder, directly. More about Ryan

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Training

Learn to drive it, and live in it.

For owners, renters, and anyone taking on more truck than they have driven before. Certified instructors, on-road and off.

Skybreaker Overland Acela 6x6 expedition truck climbing a banked gravel slopeTraining

Driver Training

The Three-Day Boot Camp.

  • A small group travelling together, with certified instructors along for the whole trip.
  • Driver skills, critical thinking, recovery technique, simulated and real situations.
  • Camaraderie around the campfire every night, which is where the real learning happens anyway.

Quoted with your booking

Expedition truck chassis parked at a blue mountain lake with guests on the shoreTraining

One-on-One

Built around exactly what you want to improve.

  • We scale the skills you already have to a heavier, larger truck. The sight lines, the weight and the recovery thinking all change.
  • On-road and off. Your truck or ours.

Quoted with your booking

Skybreaker expedition truck parked beside a picnic table on a west coast Vancouver Island beachTraining

Lifestyle

Living in it, not just driving it.

  • Off-grid systems working in unison: solar, water, heating and batteries, and how to live on them indefinitely.
  • The daily rhythm nobody warns you about: managing your water, finding fuel, where to do laundry, packing food for weeks away, fresh first and last.
  • When it goes sideways: breakdowns, closed roads, detours, and sourcing parts in the middle of nowhere.

By the hour or by the day

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Independent Buyer Advocacy

Learn to buy it.

Sellers have their people. Builders have their people. This is yours: fixed fees, published prices, and nobody paying us a referral.

Independent and on your side. If we ever earn a referral from a builder or seller, we tell you, and it comes off your bill.

Roxanne, the Acela expedition truck, at a mountain overlook above a valleyPhase one

Decide

Before you spend truck money.

  • Discovery Call Free
    Fifteen minutes, no pressure. We work out what you actually want, where it has to go, and whether any of this is for you.
  • Clarity Session $750 CAD
    Two 90-minute sessions. A written Mission Profile, three platform options that fit it, and a true cost-of-ownership budget. Fee credits toward your next step.

Chassis selection and off-grid systems covered here

Technicians working under the raised body of an expedition truckPhase two

Acquire

Finding it, or building it.

  • Try Before You Buy Trip rate + $2,500 CAD
    A founder consulting day split half at the start and half at the end of one of our trips. You leave with a written spec brief. Credits toward Acquisition Advisory.
  • Acquisition Advisory $6,000 CAD
    Search, shortlist, document and history review, negotiation coaching, closing logistics. Pre-Purchase Evaluation add-on from $1,500 CAD per truck.
  • Owner's Rep for New Builds From $10,000 CAD + $1,500 CAD a month
    Spec, builder selection, contract review, build oversight and site visits. We act only for you, never for the shop.

Independent of every builder and seller

Skybreaker Overland Acela 6x6 on a forest service road in golden lightPhase three

Own

Keys in hand, and after.

  • Commissioning & Orientation $3,000 CAD for 2 days + travel
    Your new truck head to toe: systems, maintenance, driving, and a first-trip plan. Greasing U joints to resetting your solar.
  • Owner Retainer $3,600 CAD a year
    On-call support over Starlink, parts sourcing, trip planning, annual systems review. The $25 CAD a month membership is the entry tier.
  • Selling Your Truck Let's talk
    Brokerage, or place it in our Truck Owner Leasing program and let the truck earn while you decide.

All prices in Canadian dollars

The bundle

Path to Ownership 10% off

Clarity Session, Try Before You Buy, Acquisition Advisory and Commissioning, taken together, at 10% off the combined price.

Scope and terms per our Terms & Conditions, section 20. 50% deposit to start.

Bring us your project.

Tell us what you're building or learning. We respond within 48 hours.

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