Idaho CDL — General Knowledge: Sharing the Road Practice Test

Question 1

What does the manual report about when students are most likely to be killed in school bus travel?

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While getting on or off the bus — Each year more students die boarding or leaving a school bus than die riding inside one, which is why loading and unloading procedures matter so much.

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While riding as passengers inside the bus

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While waiting at home

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While the bus is being fueled

Question 2

Late at night a drunk rider is disrupting your bus, and you are on a dark stretch far from anything. What does the manual say about putting the rider off?

Accepted Answer

Don't discharge the rider where it would be unsafe; wait for the next scheduled stop, or a lighted place where other people are around — You are responsible for a disruptive rider's safety as well as everyone else's. The manual says not to let such riders off where they would be unsafe, and many carriers have their own guidelines.

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Put the rider off at once, wherever you are

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Drive straight to the rider's home

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Lock the rider in the restroom

Question 3

You have to keep driving in fog. What does the manual say about passing other vehicles?

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Avoid passing — The fog guidance is not to drive at all if you can help it. When you must, the list of precautions includes staying behind other vehicles instead of passing them.

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Pass only on the right

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Pass only with high beams on

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Pass quickly to get clear of them

Question 4

A student's offense is so serious that you feel you can't drive the school bus safely. What does the manual tell you to do?

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Have a school administrator or a police officer come to take the student off the bus — When the bus can't be driven safely because of the offense, the driver asks for an administrator from the school, or the police, to remove the student, following state or local procedures for requesting help.

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Have other students restrain the offender

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Drive on and report it the next day

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Remove the student yourself by force

Question 5

While students board at a school bus stop, what does the manual say to do about their number?

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Count the students at the stop and make sure all of them board — Drivers count the students waiting and confirm every one gets on, learn their names where possible, and ask the others about anyone who is missing.

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Count only the students who are late

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Count seats instead of students

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Leave the counting to the oldest student

Question 6

After an accident, compressed gas is escaping from your truck. Besides warning others of the danger, whom may you allow to get close?

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Only people who are working to remove the hazard or clear the wreckage — With leaking compressed gas, the driver warns others and lets nobody near except the people who are dealing with the hazard or the wreckage.

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News crews, if they stay upwind

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Anyone who wants to help

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Other drivers who need to get by

Question 7

You see what looks like human trafficking at a truck stop. Why does the manual warn against approaching the traffickers yourself?

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It is dangerous for you and the victims, and it could cause problems in prosecuting the traffickers later — The warning says to call the hotline and let the FBI and local police handle it. Confronting traffickers puts you and the victims in danger and can create problems when the traffickers are eventually prosecuted.

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Only employers may report trafficking

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Traffickers are protected by privacy law

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The hotline accepts reports only from police

Question 8

According to the trafficking information at the front of the manual, how is a minor engaged in commercial sex regarded?

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As a victim of human trafficking — The material states flatly that a minor involved in commercial sex is a trafficking victim, with no need to show force, fraud or coercion.

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As a willing participant

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As an offender

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As a victim only if force is proven

Question 9

When you unload at the school, what should students do until you tell them to exit?

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Remain seated — The school unloading procedure keeps students in their seats until the driver, positioned to supervise, tells them to leave in an orderly way.

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Open the emergency door

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Gather at the front door

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Stand in the aisle

Question 10

A student's behavior on your school bus is bad enough that you want the student off the bus. Where may you put the student off?

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Only at school or at the student's designated bus stop — The manual forbids putting a student off anywhere other than the school or the stop assigned to that student, however serious the misbehavior.

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Anywhere a sidewalk is present

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At any police or fire station

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At the nearest corner

Question 11

How should students board a school bus, according to the loading procedures?

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Slowly, in single file, using the handrail — Students are to get on without rushing, one behind another, holding the handrail. When it is dark the dome light is switched on for loading.

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In any order, as long as they hurry

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As quickly as possible, two at a time

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Through the rear emergency door

Question 12

Passing cars make one side of a school bus a danger area at all times. Which side?

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The left side — The danger zones reach as far as 30 feet ahead of the bus and 10 feet out from each side and the rear, and the manual adds that the bus's left side is treated as dangerous at all times because cars pass there.

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The area inside the stepwell

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The area under the bus

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The right side

Idaho CDL — General Knowledge: Sharing the Road practice test

Study questions with answers

1. What does the manual report about when students are most likely to be killed in school bus travel?

2. Late at night a drunk rider is disrupting your bus, and you are on a dark stretch far from anything. What does the manual say about putting the rider off?

3. You have to keep driving in fog. What does the manual say about passing other vehicles?

4. A student's offense is so serious that you feel you can't drive the school bus safely. What does the manual tell you to do?

5. While students board at a school bus stop, what does the manual say to do about their number?

6. After an accident, compressed gas is escaping from your truck. Besides warning others of the danger, whom may you allow to get close?

7. You see what looks like human trafficking at a truck stop. Why does the manual warn against approaching the traffickers yourself?

8. According to the trafficking information at the front of the manual, how is a minor engaged in commercial sex regarded?

9. When you unload at the school, what should students do until you tell them to exit?

10. A student's behavior on your school bus is bad enough that you want the student off the bus. Where may you put the student off?

11. How should students board a school bus, according to the loading procedures?

12. Passing cars make one side of a school bus a danger area at all times. Which side?

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