VFIS STUDY EXAMS GUIDE ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Perhaps the biggest cause of unsafe highways is ___. - ✔✔the unwillingness of
people to scrutinize their own conduct, preferring to blame other drivers.
✔✔What ratio of people rate themselves as almost perfect drivers (9/10)? - ✔✔2 out of
3 (63%)
✔✔Vehicles over ____lbs. GVW, which drivers under 18yrs old are generally prohibited
from operating under Federal DOT regulations. - ✔✔26,001
✔✔Typically training records include what four things? - ✔✔1. Classes attended
(proficiency not verifiable)
2. Classes successfully completed (proficiency at time measured via testing or
simulation)
3. Certification (proficiency measured and certified by the organization)
4. Licensing (proficiency measured and licensed by the agency)
✔✔Review of a driver's MVR is the most effective way to know the specific driving
habits of individual drivers. How often should you check a driver's MVR? - ✔✔Annually
or at a minimum, once every three years
✔✔A collision constitutes "____" for drug/alcohol testing. - ✔✔reasonable cause
✔✔Driver requalification may be a complete retesting on a vehicle if the driver has not
driven in more than ___ or only once in ___. - ✔✔6 months
18 months
✔✔The breaking or violating of a law, right, obligation, engagement, or duty either by
commission or omission. - ✔✔Breach
, ✔✔The license that is mandated by state and federal law to drive a commercial vehicle
on the public highways. - ✔✔Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
✔✔Having a duty to provide just, proper, and sufficient care, so far as the
circumstances demand it; the absence of negligence. - ✔✔Duty of care
✔✔A legal status in which two or more persons are separately and together liable in tort
for the same injury to a person or property. - ✔✔Joint and Several Liability
✔✔A government's immunity from being sued in its own courts without its consent. -
✔✔Sovereign Immunity
✔✔What are the three principles of law specifically affecting emergency vehicle drivers?
- ✔✔1. Emergency vehicle drivers are subject to all traffic laws unless a specific
exemption is provided
2. Exemptions for emergency vehicle drivers apply only when the emergency vehicle is
involved in an emergency operation
3. Emergency vehicle drivers can be found civilly liable and/or guilty of a crime if
involved in an accident, even if they are operating under the provisions of an exemption
✔✔In a civil context, if liability exists, what does it mean? - ✔✔Money damages are
owed
✔✔In a criminal context, is liability exists, what does it mean? - ✔✔Fines, penalties,
and/or incarceration are a result
✔✔___ for the safety of others means the manner in which a reasonably careful person
performing similar duties and under similar circumstances would act. - ✔✔Due regard
✔✔Civil legal liability that results from a breach of a duty owed by one person to
another, caused by a failure to exercise that degree of care which a reasonably prudent
person would exercise under similar circumstances, and where damages/harm are
caused by that breach of duty owed. - ✔✔Negligence
✔✔___ is considered the most serious form of negligence and is defined as generally
willful or wanton misconduct, meaning acts involving intentional wrongdoing or reckless
indifference towards others. - ✔✔Gross negligence
✔✔___ is legal liability placed on one person for the acts committed by another person.
- ✔✔Vicarious liability
✔✔If an accident occurs, what four things are the best defense? - ✔✔1. Strong SOGs
2. Enforcement and practice of those SOGs
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Perhaps the biggest cause of unsafe highways is ___. - ✔✔the unwillingness of
people to scrutinize their own conduct, preferring to blame other drivers.
✔✔What ratio of people rate themselves as almost perfect drivers (9/10)? - ✔✔2 out of
3 (63%)
✔✔Vehicles over ____lbs. GVW, which drivers under 18yrs old are generally prohibited
from operating under Federal DOT regulations. - ✔✔26,001
✔✔Typically training records include what four things? - ✔✔1. Classes attended
(proficiency not verifiable)
2. Classes successfully completed (proficiency at time measured via testing or
simulation)
3. Certification (proficiency measured and certified by the organization)
4. Licensing (proficiency measured and licensed by the agency)
✔✔Review of a driver's MVR is the most effective way to know the specific driving
habits of individual drivers. How often should you check a driver's MVR? - ✔✔Annually
or at a minimum, once every three years
✔✔A collision constitutes "____" for drug/alcohol testing. - ✔✔reasonable cause
✔✔Driver requalification may be a complete retesting on a vehicle if the driver has not
driven in more than ___ or only once in ___. - ✔✔6 months
18 months
✔✔The breaking or violating of a law, right, obligation, engagement, or duty either by
commission or omission. - ✔✔Breach
, ✔✔The license that is mandated by state and federal law to drive a commercial vehicle
on the public highways. - ✔✔Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
✔✔Having a duty to provide just, proper, and sufficient care, so far as the
circumstances demand it; the absence of negligence. - ✔✔Duty of care
✔✔A legal status in which two or more persons are separately and together liable in tort
for the same injury to a person or property. - ✔✔Joint and Several Liability
✔✔A government's immunity from being sued in its own courts without its consent. -
✔✔Sovereign Immunity
✔✔What are the three principles of law specifically affecting emergency vehicle drivers?
- ✔✔1. Emergency vehicle drivers are subject to all traffic laws unless a specific
exemption is provided
2. Exemptions for emergency vehicle drivers apply only when the emergency vehicle is
involved in an emergency operation
3. Emergency vehicle drivers can be found civilly liable and/or guilty of a crime if
involved in an accident, even if they are operating under the provisions of an exemption
✔✔In a civil context, if liability exists, what does it mean? - ✔✔Money damages are
owed
✔✔In a criminal context, is liability exists, what does it mean? - ✔✔Fines, penalties,
and/or incarceration are a result
✔✔___ for the safety of others means the manner in which a reasonably careful person
performing similar duties and under similar circumstances would act. - ✔✔Due regard
✔✔Civil legal liability that results from a breach of a duty owed by one person to
another, caused by a failure to exercise that degree of care which a reasonably prudent
person would exercise under similar circumstances, and where damages/harm are
caused by that breach of duty owed. - ✔✔Negligence
✔✔___ is considered the most serious form of negligence and is defined as generally
willful or wanton misconduct, meaning acts involving intentional wrongdoing or reckless
indifference towards others. - ✔✔Gross negligence
✔✔___ is legal liability placed on one person for the acts committed by another person.
- ✔✔Vicarious liability
✔✔If an accident occurs, what four things are the best defense? - ✔✔1. Strong SOGs
2. Enforcement and practice of those SOGs
