New Hampshire CDL — General Knowledge practice
New Hampshire 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 the hydraulic brake check on the inspection test, where does the manual say the transmission should be placed?
Correct answer: In park
With the transmission in park, you identify the normal pedal height and then check pedal pressure as the manufacturer specifies.
Source: New Hampshire Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 11.1.2, Air Brake or Hydraulic Brake Check
2. How are pull-ups treated on the backing exercises of the Basic Control Skills test?
Correct answer: Initial pull-ups are not penalized, but an excessive number count as errors
You are not penalized for your initial pull-ups, but too many of them are counted as errors.
Source: New Hampshire Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12.1, Scoring
3. During the service brake check you roll forward at about 5 mph and apply the foot brake. The vehicle pulls to the left as it stops. What does that suggest?
Correct answer: A possible brake problem
The vehicle should stop without pulling either way. Pulling to a side, or stopping poorly, points to brakes that are not working as they should.
Source: New Hampshire Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 11.1.1, In-Vehicle/Engine Start
4. Which of these is NOT something you are scored on during Forward Offset Tracking?
Correct answer: Pull-ups
The scoring here covers encroachments, back-ups, and how well the rear tire tracks between the cone and the line. Pull-ups belong to the two backing exercises.
Source: New Hampshire Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12.2.3, Forward Offset Tracking
5. In the Reverse Offset Backing exercise, which line may your vehicle not go beyond?
Correct answer: The outer boundary line
You start parallel with the outer boundary and offset back into the alley. The manual states that you may not go past the outer boundary line.
Source: New Hampshire Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12.2.4, Reverse Offset Backing
6. Before a Basic Control Skills exercise you are unsure how the course is laid out. If it is permitted, what may you ask the examiner to do?
Correct answer: Walk you through the exercise area
If you do not understand the instructions you should ask for clarification, and where it is permitted you may ask the examiner for a walk-through of the exercise area.
Source: New Hampshire Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12.1, Scoring
7. In the Forward Stop exercise, where must the front-most part of your vehicle end up?
Correct answer: Within the stop box where the alley ends, and not beyond it
You pull ahead through the alley and make a single stop, with the front of the vehicle in the box and not past it.
Source: New Hampshire Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12.2.1, Forward Stop
8. During the Vehicle Inspection test you climb out to look at a wheel and forget to set the parking brake. What can happen?
Correct answer: The examiner may fail you automatically for an unsafe act and end the test
Forgetting the parking brake is the manual's own example of an unsafe act. It may bring an automatic failure, and the examiner may terminate the test.
Source: New Hampshire Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 11, Vehicle Inspection Test
9. On the Forward Offset Tracking exercise, how many free back-ups are you allowed, and may you get out of the vehicle?
Correct answer: No free back-ups, and you may not exit the vehicle
Free back-ups are not given on this exercise, and leaving the vehicle during it is not allowed.
Source: New Hampshire Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12.2.3, Forward Offset Tracking
10. Which exercise comes first on the modernized Basic Control Skills test?
Correct answer: Forward Stop
The four exercises run in order: Forward Stop, Straight-Line Backing, Forward Offset Tracking, then Reverse Offset Backing.
Source: New Hampshire Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 12, Basic Control Skills Test
11. Why does the inspection guide have you look for damage to a trailer's landing gear supports?
Correct answer: A damaged support may let the trailer tip or fall over when it is disconnected
The landing gear holds up the front of an uncoupled trailer. Damaged supports could let the trailer tip or fall once it is disconnected.
Source: New Hampshire Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 11.6.2, Trailers Only
12. On the inspection test's trailer parking brake check, you gently pull forward against the set trailer brake. Besides showing that the brake holds, what does the manual say this helps check?
Correct answer: The coupling connection with the trailer
The trailer parking brake check also helps confirm the coupling between the power unit and the trailer.
Source: New Hampshire Commercial Driver's License Manual — Section 11.1.1, In-Vehicle/Engine Start
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