AMBULANCE DRIVER 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Additional DMV refusal for period of 7 years - ✔✔knowingly made a false statement
or failed to disclose a fact in application, involved as a driver in an MVC causing death
or injury, or 3+ accidents within 1 year, does not meet minimum medical standards or
regulations, demonstrates irrational behavior or incurred a physical disability that has
reasonable cause to imply that normal performance may be impaired, has violated
provisions of CHP
✔✔Acts that warrant dismissal - ✔✔Reapplication following refusal or revocation have
to be made after a year of refusal, except where longer period is enacted by law;
reapplication may be made if felony or misdemeanor conviction supporting refusal or
revocation is reversed or dismissed. (termination of probation and dismissal of charges
is not a dismissal).
✔✔Grounds for dismissal of ADL or attendant CVC - ✔✔Any violation of Article 1,
Chapter 2, 13CCR, or other law that would provide grounds for refusal, suspension, or
revocation, etc. or any act of dishonesty or contrary to justice. Dismissal must be
reported by the employer to the Sac DMV within 10 days.
✔✔Hearings - any ambulance driver or applicant who has had a certificate denied,
suspended or revoked may within 10 days submit a request for a hearing - ✔✔A notice
of refusal, etc., may submit within 15 days of notice receival for a hearing. Failure to
request a hearing within 15 days is a waiver of right to a hearing
✔✔Hearing review committee - ✔✔Following an informal hearing conducted by a DMV
referee, a committee of three members representing DMV, EMSA, and CHP, review
records, findings, recommendations, and renders a final decision
✔✔Management Responsibility - ✔✔Every ambulance service owner, operator,
manager, or supervisor is responsible for operation of the service in compliance with
statutes and regulations
✔✔ADL Proficiency - ✔✔The ambulance service owner is responsible for maintaining a
personnel file for each ambulance driver which contains the date of employment,
facsimiles of DL, ADL, and DOT, as well as education standards.
✔✔Ambulance Attendant Competence - ✔✔Must possess a valid EMT-1 certificate.
Alternate valid certificates: AEMT, EMT-2, EMT-P, PA, RN, Dr.
✔✔Driver and Attendant - ✔✔Owners are encouraged to test employees initially and
periodically, by means of written and performance tests. Semiannual are reccomended
, ✔✔Dispatcher - ✔✔Owners should ensure dispatcher is properly trained to obtain info
to assess nature, urgency, and location of call and properly dispatch appropriate
service.
✔✔Ambulance Driver Responsibility - ✔✔A drier dispatched for an emergency shall
respond promptly or inform dispatch of inability to respond
✔✔Ambulance Driver Speed - ✔✔In no event, can an ambulance driver exceed a
speed of 15 mph while disobeying any official traffic control stop sign or signal. This
does not apply to publicly owned and operated dual purpose law enforcement,
✔✔Ambulance Driver Transports - ✔✔In the absence of decisive factors to the contrary,
a driver shall transport emergency patients to the most accessible emergency medical
facility equipped, staffed, and prepared to administer care
✔✔Ambulance Driver Lights and Sirens - ✔✔A driver shall not use the siren and red
warning lights when traffic is congested to a degree that increased speed and right of
way cannot be gained thereby. Siren and red warning lights shall be used with due
regard for safe roadway operation of ambulance and should not be used except for:
When responding to an emergency call or engaged in emergency services
When speed in transporting the patient to a facility appears essential to prevent loss of
life, undue suffering, or to reduce/prevent disability
✔✔Ambulance Driver Safe Operation - ✔✔No person shall drive or be directed to drive
when their ability to operate is adversely affected by fatigue, illness, or any other cause,
nor when the vehicle is unsafe to operate
✔✔Ambulance Inspection - ✔✔Every ambulance driver shall inspect the ambulance
prior to operation to ensure it is safe, equipped, and all equipment is in good working
order.
✔✔Exemption of Authorized Emergency Vehicles - ✔✔a publicly owned and operated
ambulance as well as a privately owned and operated ambulance which has been
licensed by CHP as an AEV is exempt from traffic laws contained in CVC, Division 11,
Chapter 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and Division 16.5, Chapter 5, Artice 3 and Article 4
✔✔Conditions of Exemptions of AEV - ✔✔1. The vehicle is being driven in response to
an emergency call
2. If the driver of the vehicle sounds a siren as may be reasonably necessary and the
vehicle display a lighted red lamp visible from the front as a warning to other drivers and
pedestrians.
✔✔Section 21055 CVC does not relieve the driver of an ambulance from the duty to
drive with due regard nor protect them from consequences of an arbitrary exercise of
the privileges granted in that section. - ✔✔Due regard - Black law dictionary defines due
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Additional DMV refusal for period of 7 years - ✔✔knowingly made a false statement
or failed to disclose a fact in application, involved as a driver in an MVC causing death
or injury, or 3+ accidents within 1 year, does not meet minimum medical standards or
regulations, demonstrates irrational behavior or incurred a physical disability that has
reasonable cause to imply that normal performance may be impaired, has violated
provisions of CHP
✔✔Acts that warrant dismissal - ✔✔Reapplication following refusal or revocation have
to be made after a year of refusal, except where longer period is enacted by law;
reapplication may be made if felony or misdemeanor conviction supporting refusal or
revocation is reversed or dismissed. (termination of probation and dismissal of charges
is not a dismissal).
✔✔Grounds for dismissal of ADL or attendant CVC - ✔✔Any violation of Article 1,
Chapter 2, 13CCR, or other law that would provide grounds for refusal, suspension, or
revocation, etc. or any act of dishonesty or contrary to justice. Dismissal must be
reported by the employer to the Sac DMV within 10 days.
✔✔Hearings - any ambulance driver or applicant who has had a certificate denied,
suspended or revoked may within 10 days submit a request for a hearing - ✔✔A notice
of refusal, etc., may submit within 15 days of notice receival for a hearing. Failure to
request a hearing within 15 days is a waiver of right to a hearing
✔✔Hearing review committee - ✔✔Following an informal hearing conducted by a DMV
referee, a committee of three members representing DMV, EMSA, and CHP, review
records, findings, recommendations, and renders a final decision
✔✔Management Responsibility - ✔✔Every ambulance service owner, operator,
manager, or supervisor is responsible for operation of the service in compliance with
statutes and regulations
✔✔ADL Proficiency - ✔✔The ambulance service owner is responsible for maintaining a
personnel file for each ambulance driver which contains the date of employment,
facsimiles of DL, ADL, and DOT, as well as education standards.
✔✔Ambulance Attendant Competence - ✔✔Must possess a valid EMT-1 certificate.
Alternate valid certificates: AEMT, EMT-2, EMT-P, PA, RN, Dr.
✔✔Driver and Attendant - ✔✔Owners are encouraged to test employees initially and
periodically, by means of written and performance tests. Semiannual are reccomended
, ✔✔Dispatcher - ✔✔Owners should ensure dispatcher is properly trained to obtain info
to assess nature, urgency, and location of call and properly dispatch appropriate
service.
✔✔Ambulance Driver Responsibility - ✔✔A drier dispatched for an emergency shall
respond promptly or inform dispatch of inability to respond
✔✔Ambulance Driver Speed - ✔✔In no event, can an ambulance driver exceed a
speed of 15 mph while disobeying any official traffic control stop sign or signal. This
does not apply to publicly owned and operated dual purpose law enforcement,
✔✔Ambulance Driver Transports - ✔✔In the absence of decisive factors to the contrary,
a driver shall transport emergency patients to the most accessible emergency medical
facility equipped, staffed, and prepared to administer care
✔✔Ambulance Driver Lights and Sirens - ✔✔A driver shall not use the siren and red
warning lights when traffic is congested to a degree that increased speed and right of
way cannot be gained thereby. Siren and red warning lights shall be used with due
regard for safe roadway operation of ambulance and should not be used except for:
When responding to an emergency call or engaged in emergency services
When speed in transporting the patient to a facility appears essential to prevent loss of
life, undue suffering, or to reduce/prevent disability
✔✔Ambulance Driver Safe Operation - ✔✔No person shall drive or be directed to drive
when their ability to operate is adversely affected by fatigue, illness, or any other cause,
nor when the vehicle is unsafe to operate
✔✔Ambulance Inspection - ✔✔Every ambulance driver shall inspect the ambulance
prior to operation to ensure it is safe, equipped, and all equipment is in good working
order.
✔✔Exemption of Authorized Emergency Vehicles - ✔✔a publicly owned and operated
ambulance as well as a privately owned and operated ambulance which has been
licensed by CHP as an AEV is exempt from traffic laws contained in CVC, Division 11,
Chapter 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and Division 16.5, Chapter 5, Artice 3 and Article 4
✔✔Conditions of Exemptions of AEV - ✔✔1. The vehicle is being driven in response to
an emergency call
2. If the driver of the vehicle sounds a siren as may be reasonably necessary and the
vehicle display a lighted red lamp visible from the front as a warning to other drivers and
pedestrians.
✔✔Section 21055 CVC does not relieve the driver of an ambulance from the duty to
drive with due regard nor protect them from consequences of an arbitrary exercise of
the privileges granted in that section. - ✔✔Due regard - Black law dictionary defines due
