Instructions

Knowledge Test Class A

This license is required for driving any legal combination of vehicles, with a gross combination weight rating of 26,001 pounds or more, provided the GVWR of a trailer exceeds 10,000 pounds To receive this license, applicants must pass a 50-question test. To pass, applicants must answer 40 questions correctly. Each question has three or four possible answer choices. Test questions come from the Montana Commercial Driver License Manual. Questions come from chapters covering: Introduction, Driving Safely, Transporting Cargo Safely, Air Brakes (if applicable), Combination, Doubles and Hazardous Materials. Endorsements that may be used with a Class A CDL are: Hazardous materials, Tank, Passenger, HazMat and Tank, Air Brakes and School bus.

Number of Question 50

Passing Score 40

1. If you’re not sure what to do to extinguish a fire in your vehicle, you should:

Use water.

Stay inside the vehicle.

Wait for the firefighters.

If you are not sure which kind of extinguisher should be used on a fire in your vehicle, particularly a hazardous materials fire, you should wait for the firefighters to arrive and allow them to extinguish it.

2. If you have more than one license:

You are unlikely to be caught.

You are doing nothing wrong.

You will be penalized.

There is no way for authorities to find out.

A person may not have more than one license. Violation of this law may be punishable by jail time and/or a fine of up to $5,000.

3. If convicted of a traffic violation, you must inform your employer:

Within three hours.

Within a week.

Within 30 days.

If you are convicted of any kind of traffic violation in any type of vehicle, you must notify your employer within 30 days of the incident. You must also inform your motor vehicle licensing agency within 30 days if the incident happened in another jurisdiction. This rule does not apply to parking infractions.

4. When conducting a pre-drive inspection:

The inspection report is not important.

The inspection report must only be reviewed if there will be passengers in the vehicle.

The previous inspection report should be reviewed, if applicable.

The first step of a vehicle inspection is to review the last vehicle inspection report. Only sign the report if noted defects are certified to have been repaired.

5. As part of the vehicle inspection test, a CDL applicant may be asked to:

Check the engine oil level.

Replace a tire.

Remove the alternator belt.

Replace spark plugs.

While testing for a CDL, an applicant will be required to go through a full vehicle inspection. The vehicle inspection test will include an engine oil level check.

6. Antifreeze helps to keep an engine functioning properly:

But only if it is cold outside.

To be more fuel efficient.

Both when it is cold and hot outside.

It is always important to have enough water and antifreeze in a vehicle's cooling system. Despite the name, antifreeze is beneficial to an engine even in hot weather.

7. Shaded areas of a road:

Usually don’t freeze.

Are usually blocked from all moisture, so they cannot freeze.

Will remain slick after ice has melted on other areas of the road.

Because they are exposed to less sunlight and warm up more slowly, shaded areas will remain icy and slippery after ice on other areas of the road has melted.

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