CDL Section 14 Class B Drivers Pre Test
Questions Correctly Answered.
All commercial motor vehicles, truck tractors, trail- ers, or semitrailers must carry what while driving on a
highway? - Answer Registration Papers (receipt for license plates)
What should registration papers show? - Answer The weight of the vehicle empty and how much it is
registered to haul.
If you wish to haul a load or move equipment that is heavier, longer, wider, or higher than the law allows,
you must obtain a special permit from who? - Answer The Texas Department of Transportation
No person shall operate a commercial vehicle from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise
on any highway out of city limits without? - Answer At least three flares, or three red electric lanterns,
or three portable red emergency reflectors.
During times when lighted lamps are not required what must be used in place of flares, lights, or
reflectors? - Answer Two red flags
Motor vehicles transporting explosives or any cargo tank truck used for the transportation of any
flammable liquid or compressed flammable gases, or any motor vehicle using compressed gas as a fuel
shall not use flares, fusees, or any signals produced by flame. What can be used as a replacement for the
above equipment? - Answer D.O.T approved triangular reflectors
What is the first thing the driver of a disabled vehicle must do? - Answer Put out the proper flares,
flags, or reflectors
True or False: When any truck, bus, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer 100 inches or more in
width or 40 feet or more in overall length is stopped upon a roadway or adjacent shoulder, the driver
shall immediately actuate electric hazard warning signal lights. - Answer False. The correct dimensions
for this requirement is 80 inches or more in width and 30 feet or more in overall length.
, All school buses, buses, taxis, and other vehicles hauling passengers for hire or lease, must carry a
chemical type fire extinguisher of at least what capacity? - Answer One quart
True or False: Reflectors must be mounted not less than 24 inches nor more than 60 inches in height
above the ground on every pole trailer and on trucks, buses, truck tractors, trailers, semitrailers which
are 80 or more inches in width. - Answer True
On a two-way roadway, how should the lamps and/or flags be placed in relation to the truck? - Answer
one flag/lamp 100 feet in front and behind of the truck, along with one flag/lamp 10 feet behind of the
truck.
On a divided highway, how should the lamps and/or flags be placed in relation to the truck? - Answer
one flag/lamp 10 feet behind, another 100 feet behind the first, and a third 100 feet behind the second,
making the distance between the first and third flag/lamp 200 feet.
When your vision is obscured, such as on a winding road, and your vehicle is disabled, how should the
lamps/flags be placed in relation to the truck? - Answer One flag/lamp 100 feet in front, one 10 feet
behind, and a third any distance between 100 feet and 500 feet behind the one 10 feet behind.
On every truck/bus less than 80" in width, what are the vehicle lighting and reflector requirements for
the front of the vehicle? - Answer Two head lamps, with one electric turn signal lamp on each side,
color white to amber.
On every truck/bus less than 80" in width, what are the vehicle lighting and reflector requirements for
the back of the vehicle? - Answer One white license plate lamp, two red tail lamps, stop lamps, and
reflectors (one on each side) and one electric turn signal lamp on each side, color amber to red.
On every truck/bus less than 80" in width, what are the vehicle lighting and reflector requirements for
the side of the vehicle? - Answer No requirements
On every truck/bus 80" or more in width, what are the vehicle lighting and reflector requirements for the
front of the vehicle? - Answer Two amber clearance lamps, two head lamps, and one electric turn
signal lamp on each side, color white to amber.
