EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
All commercial motor vehicles are required to carry... - Answer - ✔ Registration papers
What do registration papers tell you? - Answer - ✔ The Gross Vehicle Weight and the
hauling capacity.
No person should operate a truck, buss, or any commercial motor vehicle, towing a
house outside of city limits or any divided highway 30min after sunset or 30 min before
sunrise, unless you carry... - Answer - ✔ 3 Flares
or
3 red electric lanterns
or
3 red portable emergency deflectors
During times that lighted lamps are not required, _________________ must be carried
in place. - Answer - ✔ 2 red flags
A vehicle transporting explosives must carry _______________ instead of flares. -
Answer - ✔ D.O.T. approved triangular reflectors
The first thing a driver of a disabled vehicle must do is... - Answer - ✔ Place proper
flares, flags, ect.
Any commercial vehicle that is 80" or more in length, or 30" or more in width, that is
stopped in a roadway, or on an adjacent shoulder shall... - Answer - ✔ Immediately
actuate electric hazard warning signal lights (flashers that flash simultaneously)
When are these lights (Hazard) not needed - Answer - ✔ When the vehicle is legally
parked inside city limits or is discharging passengers.
All vehicles hauling passengers require... - Answer - ✔ Chemical type fire extinguisher.
(at least 1qt in capacity)
Reflectors must be mounted less than ______________ or more than
______________. - Answer - ✔ 24",60" (above ground on trailers 80" in width)
, When on a 2 way road, what is the distance between flags/lamps/flares for an
emergency? - Answer - ✔ 10 and 100' behind and 100' in-front
On a divided highway, what is the flag/flare distance for an emergency? - Answer - ✔
10, 100, and 200' to the rear.
When on a vision obscured road, what are the lamp distance requirements for an
emergency? - Answer - ✔ 100>F<500,10' behind and 100' in-front
When operated at night, all animal drawn vehicles, implements of husbandry, or farm
vehicles need ________________. - Answer - ✔ A white light on the front, visible from
1000 feet. 2 Red lights (or 1 red light and 2 red reflectors) on the rear, visible from 1000
feet.
Trailers with a GVW <________________ are exempt from break requirements. -
Answer - ✔ 4500lbs
Trailers with a GVW > ___________ but < ____________ and are operated at
____________ mph or less are not required to have breaks. - Answer - ✔ 4500, 15000,
30
A trailer with a GVW of 4500<T>15000 and traveling in excess of 30mph are required to
have. - Answer - ✔ Brakes acting on both wheels of the rear axle.
All vehicles equipped with brakes shall have a system run through ____________
control devices. - Answer - ✔ 1
Surge or inertia breaking systems can be used on a trailer with a GVW of
____________. - Answer - ✔ >15000lbs
Generally if the trailer is ____________ lbs or less, the combination must be able to
stop within _________ at __________ mph. - Answer - ✔ 3000, 40', 20
If the trailer is in excess of ____________ lbs the combination must be able to stop
within _________ at _________ mph. - Answer - ✔ 3000, 50', 20
All trucks with 4 tires on the rear axles are required to have. - Answer - ✔ Mud flaps/
Safety guards that reach within 8" of the ground.
All tractors or implements of husbandry manufactures after 1972 shall be equipped
with... - Answer - ✔ 2 Head lamps, on tail light(mounted as far left as possible), and 2
red reflectors.