General Knowledge
Hazardous Materials
Air Brakes
Tank Vehicles
Combination Vehicles
100
To prevent a load from shifting, there should be at least one tie down for every how many feet of cargo?
What is 10 feet?
100
Who is responsible for finding out what permits or special routes you will need to haul hazardous materials?
Who is a carrier?
100
At what psi does the warning buzzer come on for the service air tanks?
What is 60psi?
100
Liquid tight separators between compartments inside tanks.
What is a Bulkhead?
100
Part of the kingpin that locking jaws close around.
What is the shank?
200
How far ahead of the truck should a driver look while driving?
What is 12-15 seconds?
200
A vehicle placarded for hazardous materials must have placards on how many sides?
How much is 4?
200
What does the air compressor governor control?
What is air pumped into the air tanks?
200
Separators, with openings or holes in them, that are between compartments in a tank.
What are Baffles?
200
Air line colors on a combination vehicle, emergency and service lines.
What is the color red and blue?
300
You must park on the side of a level, straight, two-lane road. Where should you place the reflective triangles.
What is 10ft to the rear, 100ft to the rear, 100ft to the front
300
You may not park a vehicle carrying hazardous materials within how many feet of an open fire?
How much is 300ft?
300
What are spring brakes held back by during normal driving?
What is air pressure?
300
Side to side surge can cause?
What is a rollover?
300
Semitrailers made before 1975 did not come with these.
What is spring brakes?
400
You are driving a vehicle at 55mph on dry pavement. About how much total stopping distance will you need to bring it to a stop?
What is the length of a football field?
400
To stop for railroad tracks, you should stop how many feet before the nearest track?
How much is 15ft to 50ft
400
A straight truck air brake system should not leak at a rate of more than psi per minute with the engine off and the brakes released?
What is 2psi?
400
Braking method used to stop your tanker quickly in an emergency.
What is stab or controlled braking?
400
Maximum space between the upper and lower fifth wheel after coupling.
What is nothing?
500
You do not have a Hazardous Materials Endorsement on your CDL. You can drive a vehicle hauling hazardous materials when?
Does it require a placard?
500
A driver who transports radioactive material and has to follow a certain route must have had special training by the carrier within last how many years?
What is 2 years?
500
The most common type of foundation brake found on heavy vehicles.
What is S-cam drum brakes?
500
Definition of outage.
What is the expansion of liquid?
500
The air leakage rate for a combination vehicle engine off brakes off should be less how many psi per minute?
What is 3psi?
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