TRUCKING RODEO EXAMS SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔T or F: TEA-21 built on the initiatives established in the intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) - ✔✔True
✔✔Which of the following did TEA-21 NOT do?
A) strengthen transportation safety programs
B) increase safety belt usage
C) promote enforcement of 0.08 blood alcohol standards for drunk driving
D) set standards for road side inspections - ✔✔D) the TEA-21 does not do set
standards for road side inspections
✔✔Under TEA-21, the National Motor Carrier Safety Program (NMCSP) was
restructured. Part of this restructuring resulted in? - ✔✔MCSAP
✔✔The Motor Carrier Safety Program (MCSAP) did all but one of these things
A) imposed mandatory shutdown on all unfit carriers
B) required the Secretary of transportation to establish procedures to enforce safety
regulations when violated
C) establish a $100,000 maximum penalty for all non-recordkeeping violations of the
safety regulations
D) disperse funds for state enforcement of CMV safety hazmat regulations - ✔✔C) The
Motor Carrier Safety Program did not establish a $100,000 maximum penalty for all
non-recordkeeping violations of the safety regulations
✔✔The Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 moved all carrier safety
oversight responsibilities to: - ✔✔FMCSA
✔✔T or F: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is under authority of the
U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS). - ✔✔False
✔✔T or F: The goal of the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 is to reduce
the number and severity of crashes involving large trucks. - ✔✔True
✔✔On which date did President George W. Bush sign into law the Safe, Accountable,
Flexible, Efficient Transportation Act: A Legacy for Users (SAGETEA-LU)? - ✔✔Aug 10,
2005
✔✔Which is not true about SAFETEA-LU?
A) It is the largest investment in transportation to
B) It built on TEA-21 and ISTEA
C) It doubled the funds for infrastructure safety
,D) It paid bonuses to companies for their safety records - ✔✔D) SAFETEA-LU did not
pay bonuses to companies for their safety records
✔✔Which is NOT an objective of MAP 21?
A) roadside inspections
B) maintaining infrastructure conditioning
C) protecting the environment
D) reducing traffic congestion - ✔✔A) roadside inspections is not an objective of MAP
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✔✔What year was the Bioterrorism Response Act signed? - ✔✔2002
✔✔What year was the American Trucking Association (ATA) established? - ✔✔1933
✔✔What year was the America's Road Team established? - ✔✔1986
✔✔What year was the final rule on medical certificates linked to CDL? - ✔✔2008
✔✔The trucking industry can be justly called a ________ of the U.S. economy. -
✔✔mainspring
✔✔T or F: Trucks perform a distribution service which "can" be duplicated by both rail
and sea transportation. - ✔✔False
✔✔Trucks have the advantage of _______, which does not appear likely to be
challenged. - ✔✔Flexibility
✔✔Which is not an advantage trucks have over all other means of freight
transportation? - ✔✔Cost
✔✔Which is NOT a contributing factor in the higher efficiency of trucks over rail?
A) easier pick-up and delivery
B) the ability to deliver door to door
C) cost
D) regular delivery schedules - ✔✔Cost is not a contributing factor in the higher
efficiency of trucks over rail
✔✔On what date did NAFTA's trucking pilot program officially end? - ✔✔Oct 10, 2014
✔✔Which is true about crashes involving large trucks between 2008 and 2013?
A) there was 10% reduction is crashes
B) crashes dropped from 380,000 to 342,000
C) there was 19% reduction in fatalities between 2008 and 2013
,D) all of the above - ✔✔D) all of the above
✔✔What date did President Obama sign into law MAP 21? - ✔✔July 6, 2012
✔✔The trucking industry cooperates with? - ✔✔state and local authorities and federal
officials
✔✔Which is not a reason listed in 'Facts for Drivers', in the selection of professional
truck drivers? - ✔✔efficiency
✔✔T or F: Truck drivers should pull to the right to allow motorists to pass. - ✔✔True
✔✔The trucking industry is represented nationally by... - ✔✔ATA
✔✔The American Trucking Association Inc. (ATA) is a ______ of motor carrier. -
✔✔federation
✔✔The ATRI has been engaged in critical transportation studies since 1954 and stands
for? - ✔✔American Transportation Research Institute
✔✔ATA is headquartered in? - ✔✔Arlington, Virginia
✔✔Which is not a department of ATA? - ✔✔Road Condition Failure Dept.
✔✔America's Road Team, sponsored by Volvo Trucks, was created by ATA in? -
✔✔1986
✔✔America's Road Team motto is? - ✔✔"Safety is our driving concern"
✔✔Drivers representing America's Road Team, are referred to as? - ✔✔Captains
✔✔Which is dedicated to reducing the fatalities and accident rates on American
roadways? - ✔✔Share the Road
✔✔Share the Road is sponsored by? - ✔✔Mack Trucks and Michelin North America
✔✔Share the Road program reaches out to the public through? - ✔✔radio, online, and
TV
✔✔The Share the Road program reaches how many motorists annually? - ✔✔millions
, ✔✔T or F: U.S. DOT has not been able to calculate or credit programs like 'Share the
Road' with a reduction in truck-related fatalities over the past decade, but hopes to in
the future. - ✔✔False
✔✔Share the Road program has been in existence for over? - ✔✔20 years
✔✔Share the Road replaced what program? - ✔✔How to Drive
✔✔DOT created The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) on? - ✔✔Oct 15, 1966
✔✔T or F: FHWA has the broad responsibility for ensuring that America's roads and
highways (physical infrastructure) continue to be the safest and most technologically up-
to-date. - ✔✔True
✔✔The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was established in? -
✔✔1970
✔✔Which is not a responsibility of NHTSA
A) provide education, research, safety standards, and enforcement activity for the
purpose of saving lives
B) provide education research, and safety standards to reduce economic costs due to
traffic crashes
C)provide education, research, and safety standards to prevent injury
D) provide quality research and feedback to the EPA, on the effects of traffic congestion
to wildlife - ✔✔D) Providing quality research and feedback to the EPA, on the effects to
traffic congestion to wildlife is not a responsibility of NHTSA
✔✔Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards are issued by? - ✔✔NHTSA
✔✔T or F: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was created in 2000,
pursuant to the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1998 - ✔✔False
✔✔T or F: FMCSA issues standards for safety programs; and the states, for the most
part, adopted them as their own. - ✔✔True
✔✔In which month and year did Congress transfer responsibility for hazardous material
transport and safety to the newly created Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration (PHMSA) ? - ✔✔February 2005
✔✔On Nov 30th, 2004, who signed the Norman Y Mineta Research and Special
Programs Improvement Act of 2004? - ✔✔George W. Bush
✔✔When was the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established? - ✔✔July 1970
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔T or F: TEA-21 built on the initiatives established in the intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) - ✔✔True
✔✔Which of the following did TEA-21 NOT do?
A) strengthen transportation safety programs
B) increase safety belt usage
C) promote enforcement of 0.08 blood alcohol standards for drunk driving
D) set standards for road side inspections - ✔✔D) the TEA-21 does not do set
standards for road side inspections
✔✔Under TEA-21, the National Motor Carrier Safety Program (NMCSP) was
restructured. Part of this restructuring resulted in? - ✔✔MCSAP
✔✔The Motor Carrier Safety Program (MCSAP) did all but one of these things
A) imposed mandatory shutdown on all unfit carriers
B) required the Secretary of transportation to establish procedures to enforce safety
regulations when violated
C) establish a $100,000 maximum penalty for all non-recordkeeping violations of the
safety regulations
D) disperse funds for state enforcement of CMV safety hazmat regulations - ✔✔C) The
Motor Carrier Safety Program did not establish a $100,000 maximum penalty for all
non-recordkeeping violations of the safety regulations
✔✔The Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 moved all carrier safety
oversight responsibilities to: - ✔✔FMCSA
✔✔T or F: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is under authority of the
U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS). - ✔✔False
✔✔T or F: The goal of the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 is to reduce
the number and severity of crashes involving large trucks. - ✔✔True
✔✔On which date did President George W. Bush sign into law the Safe, Accountable,
Flexible, Efficient Transportation Act: A Legacy for Users (SAGETEA-LU)? - ✔✔Aug 10,
2005
✔✔Which is not true about SAFETEA-LU?
A) It is the largest investment in transportation to
B) It built on TEA-21 and ISTEA
C) It doubled the funds for infrastructure safety
,D) It paid bonuses to companies for their safety records - ✔✔D) SAFETEA-LU did not
pay bonuses to companies for their safety records
✔✔Which is NOT an objective of MAP 21?
A) roadside inspections
B) maintaining infrastructure conditioning
C) protecting the environment
D) reducing traffic congestion - ✔✔A) roadside inspections is not an objective of MAP
21
✔✔What year was the Bioterrorism Response Act signed? - ✔✔2002
✔✔What year was the American Trucking Association (ATA) established? - ✔✔1933
✔✔What year was the America's Road Team established? - ✔✔1986
✔✔What year was the final rule on medical certificates linked to CDL? - ✔✔2008
✔✔The trucking industry can be justly called a ________ of the U.S. economy. -
✔✔mainspring
✔✔T or F: Trucks perform a distribution service which "can" be duplicated by both rail
and sea transportation. - ✔✔False
✔✔Trucks have the advantage of _______, which does not appear likely to be
challenged. - ✔✔Flexibility
✔✔Which is not an advantage trucks have over all other means of freight
transportation? - ✔✔Cost
✔✔Which is NOT a contributing factor in the higher efficiency of trucks over rail?
A) easier pick-up and delivery
B) the ability to deliver door to door
C) cost
D) regular delivery schedules - ✔✔Cost is not a contributing factor in the higher
efficiency of trucks over rail
✔✔On what date did NAFTA's trucking pilot program officially end? - ✔✔Oct 10, 2014
✔✔Which is true about crashes involving large trucks between 2008 and 2013?
A) there was 10% reduction is crashes
B) crashes dropped from 380,000 to 342,000
C) there was 19% reduction in fatalities between 2008 and 2013
,D) all of the above - ✔✔D) all of the above
✔✔What date did President Obama sign into law MAP 21? - ✔✔July 6, 2012
✔✔The trucking industry cooperates with? - ✔✔state and local authorities and federal
officials
✔✔Which is not a reason listed in 'Facts for Drivers', in the selection of professional
truck drivers? - ✔✔efficiency
✔✔T or F: Truck drivers should pull to the right to allow motorists to pass. - ✔✔True
✔✔The trucking industry is represented nationally by... - ✔✔ATA
✔✔The American Trucking Association Inc. (ATA) is a ______ of motor carrier. -
✔✔federation
✔✔The ATRI has been engaged in critical transportation studies since 1954 and stands
for? - ✔✔American Transportation Research Institute
✔✔ATA is headquartered in? - ✔✔Arlington, Virginia
✔✔Which is not a department of ATA? - ✔✔Road Condition Failure Dept.
✔✔America's Road Team, sponsored by Volvo Trucks, was created by ATA in? -
✔✔1986
✔✔America's Road Team motto is? - ✔✔"Safety is our driving concern"
✔✔Drivers representing America's Road Team, are referred to as? - ✔✔Captains
✔✔Which is dedicated to reducing the fatalities and accident rates on American
roadways? - ✔✔Share the Road
✔✔Share the Road is sponsored by? - ✔✔Mack Trucks and Michelin North America
✔✔Share the Road program reaches out to the public through? - ✔✔radio, online, and
TV
✔✔The Share the Road program reaches how many motorists annually? - ✔✔millions
, ✔✔T or F: U.S. DOT has not been able to calculate or credit programs like 'Share the
Road' with a reduction in truck-related fatalities over the past decade, but hopes to in
the future. - ✔✔False
✔✔Share the Road program has been in existence for over? - ✔✔20 years
✔✔Share the Road replaced what program? - ✔✔How to Drive
✔✔DOT created The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) on? - ✔✔Oct 15, 1966
✔✔T or F: FHWA has the broad responsibility for ensuring that America's roads and
highways (physical infrastructure) continue to be the safest and most technologically up-
to-date. - ✔✔True
✔✔The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was established in? -
✔✔1970
✔✔Which is not a responsibility of NHTSA
A) provide education, research, safety standards, and enforcement activity for the
purpose of saving lives
B) provide education research, and safety standards to reduce economic costs due to
traffic crashes
C)provide education, research, and safety standards to prevent injury
D) provide quality research and feedback to the EPA, on the effects of traffic congestion
to wildlife - ✔✔D) Providing quality research and feedback to the EPA, on the effects to
traffic congestion to wildlife is not a responsibility of NHTSA
✔✔Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards are issued by? - ✔✔NHTSA
✔✔T or F: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was created in 2000,
pursuant to the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1998 - ✔✔False
✔✔T or F: FMCSA issues standards for safety programs; and the states, for the most
part, adopted them as their own. - ✔✔True
✔✔In which month and year did Congress transfer responsibility for hazardous material
transport and safety to the newly created Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration (PHMSA) ? - ✔✔February 2005
✔✔On Nov 30th, 2004, who signed the Norman Y Mineta Research and Special
Programs Improvement Act of 2004? - ✔✔George W. Bush
✔✔When was the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established? - ✔✔July 1970
