Question:
In the interest of those who (like me) will need to retake the exam to renew our license, or those who are taking the tests for the first time, please write questions that were on a test you took with the correct answers. Please indicate what state this is for.
It's been 3 years since the last time I took the tests. I'll have to renew next year. And I know I'm a little rusty on the actual test material. I know there are others who would like to see this info as well. Let's keep this going...

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The question are all on the left side of the screen. It's a good place to go practice. Just click the link.
http://www.cristcdl.com/otc/

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Thanks for the link.
I tried one of the tests. I got 80%, so that's okay. But I'd still like to see the actual state by state verbage on the tests. CA for instance has a nasty habit of twisting the meaning of a sentence just to throw you off.
How about it drivers?

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Ask union guys- don't tell anyone but back 11 years ago we got copies of the actual test from some union guys... I'm sure SOMEONE has a copy.
The only thing I remember about the (Ohio) test was that you had to answer wrong to get the right answer on a few of them. The proper way to hook up to a trailer was to back up to it, get out and attatch your air lines, and THEN back under it. I don't know ANYONE who does that, but that's what the answer was.

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Florida has the same standard. You back up to it until your 5th wheel touches then hook up the air lines and power cord check your alignment with the pin and then back all the way until it connects. In reality it is safer.
There was a post here a couple years ago about a driver who was killed. After he had backed under the trailer and probably thinking it was connected he got out to hook up the lines and check the pin lock when the trailer slid off the 5th wheel crushing him between that trailer and the one next to it.
Not many do it by the book but it is safer.

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So if you get out and hook up your airlines first, are they going to keep the trailer from falling off when you still don't hook up to the king pin? I've heard of guys who've gone down the road a few miles and had the trailer fall off. I don't know that it's true but that's one of my paranoid fears- I always pull on the fifth wheel after I hear the click, but I also double check with a flashlight...

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Checking your alignment with the King pin will make sure you are on track. I've also heard guys say it just came loose after taking off and claim they checked and it was secure. Their usually full of bologna. I've seen far to many drivers just take a quick glance at the connection and trailer and just drive off.

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This is a legacy law. Back in the older days of trucking trailers needed to be aired up so the brakes would engage and hold the trailer during hookup. The newer trailers have the parking brake springs that engage when air is lost.
I have chased a few trailers in my time because they were the older models and I didn’t realize it or the brakes were so out of adjustment the parking brakes were ineffective . I had a lot of fun hoping it would just stay on the fifth wheel till I can set things straight or that the landing gear would hold if/when it came off. As to the tests the correct answers are verbatim from the book supplied from your state DMV. They ask questions and give you a choice of answers sometimes with one that is a teaser ( It may look like the answer but the correct answer is the one worded verbatim from the book) If you have to take the tests to renew your licenses just go to the local DMV and get a copy of the currant CDL test book( they are free!! At least in OHIO they are ) and read it over.