Kansas CDL — General Knowledge practice
Kansas CDL — General Knowledge: Parking & Stopping practice test
Legal and illegal parking, colored curbs, distances from hydrants and crossings, and how to park safely on hills.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. For a normal stop, how should you apply the brake pedal?
Correct answer: Push it down gradually, controlling pressure for a smooth stop
Press the pedal gradually, using as much pressure as your speed and stopping distance call for, so the vehicle stops smoothly.
Source: Kansas Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 2.2.3, Stopping
2. In the straight line backing exercise of the basic control skills test, how many free pull-ups and exits to look are you allowed?
Correct answer: One free pull-up and one exit
Straight line backing allows one free pull-up, and you may safely get out once to check around the vehicle.
Source: Kansas Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12.2.2, Exercise 2 – Straight Line Backing
3. During the basic control skills test, you open the cab door to check your position while the vehicle is still rolling. What may happen?
Correct answer: Automatic failure for an unsafe act
Opening the door while the vehicle isn't secured in neutral or park can be scored as an unsafe act and an automatic failure.
Source: Kansas Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12.1, Scoring
4. Besides confirming the trailer parking brake holds, what does the trailer parking brake check on the inspection test also help you check?
Correct answer: The coupling connection with the trailer
Gently pulling against the set trailer parking brake shows whether it holds the vehicle and also helps verify the coupling to the trailer.
Source: Kansas Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 11.1.1, In-Vehicle/Engine Start
5. When you park a large vehicle, how should you try to position it?
Correct answer: So you can pull forward when you leave
Backing is always dangerous, so try to park in a spot you can drive out of forward.
Source: Kansas Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 2.2.4, Backing Safely
6. In the reverse offset backing exercise, how many free pull-ups and exits to look are you allowed?
Correct answer: Two free pull-ups and up to two exits
Reverse offset backing permits two free pull-ups, and you may get out a maximum of two times to check the vehicle's position.
Source: Kansas Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12.2.4, Exercise 4 – Reverse Offset Backing
7. During a skills test exercise, a door mirror passes over a boundary cone. Is that an encroachment?
Correct answer: No — mirrors and unique parts at or above door-mirror height are excluded
Encroachments count when any part of the vehicle touches or crosses a boundary, except the mirrors and unique parts at or above door-mirror height, like a bucket truck's boom.
Source: Kansas Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12.1, Scoring
8. On the basic control skills test, which of these is NOT scored as a pull-up?
Correct answer: Stopping without changing direction
A pull-up means pulling forward during a backing exercise to fix your position or clear an encroachment. Simply stopping without changing direction doesn't count.
Source: Kansas Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12.1, Scoring
9. During the forward offset tracking exercise, may you stop, back up, or get out to look?
Correct answer: No — and if you stop, the exercise is ended
Forward offset tracking must be driven without stopping, backing, or exiting; stopping ends the exercise.
Source: Kansas Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12.2.3, Exercise 3 – Forward Offset Tracking
10. In what order are the four basic control skills exercises given?
Correct answer: Forward stop, straight line backing, forward offset tracking, reverse offset backing
The test steps run forward stop first, then straight line backing, forward offset tracking, and reverse offset backing.
Source: Kansas Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12, Basic Control Skills Test
11. You are taking the basic control skills test in a bus. What counts as a 'look'?
Correct answer: Walking toward the rear of the bus for a better view
On a bus, walking toward the rear for a better view is scored as a look, the same as opening the door or leaving the seat.
Source: Kansas Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12.1, Scoring
12. Where do you stop at the end of the forward offset tracking exercise?
Correct answer: Parallel to the outer boundary, at or before the cones at the far end
Finish by stopping parallel to the outer boundary, no farther than the cones at the far end, then secure the vehicle and sound the horn.
Source: Kansas Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12.2.3, Exercise 3 – Forward Offset Tracking
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