Vermont CDL — General Knowledge practice
Vermont CDL — General Knowledge: Penalties & Licensing practice test
The point system, license suspension, provisional-license rules, insurance requirements, and other licensing basics.
Content reviewed against official driver handbooks · August 12, 2026
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1. You fail the eye test at a Vermont DMV office while applying for a CDL. What happens next?
Correct answer: You receive a referral form for an eye doctor to complete and return within 30 days
The applicant is handed an eye referral form. An eye doctor completes it, it goes back to the Department within 30 days, and the vision must be corrected before a CDL is issued.
Source: Vermont Commercial Driver's Manual — Vision Test
2. How much classroom instruction makes up Vermont's school bus driver training clinic?
Correct answer: Eight hours
School Bus Driver Training is eight hours of classroom instruction. When it is finished, the instructor notifies DMV.
Source: Vermont Commercial Driver's Manual — School Bus Endorsements
3. At a Vermont skills test appointment, the vehicle you brought does not pass the pre-trip inspection because of a safety problem. How does the manual treat that?
Correct answer: As a test failure: testing ends for the day and the skills test fee is still owed
A vehicle that cannot pass the pre-trip inspection on safety grounds counts as a test failure. Testing stops for that appointment, the skills test fee is still owed, and the complete test must be rebooked, though no new scheduling deposit is required.
Source: Vermont Commercial Driver's Manual — Pre-Trip Inspection Test
4. Vermont's military skills test waiver covers service members who held a qualifying military driving position how recently?
Correct answer: Currently, or within the last year
The waiver covers currently licensed service members who hold, or held within the past year, a military job that required driving a military vehicle equivalent to a CMV.
Source: Vermont Commercial Driver's Manual — Military Skills Test Waiver
5. Under Vermont's military skills test waiver, which endorsement knowledge tests does the manual say may be waived in some cases?
Correct answer: Passenger, hazmat and tanker
The waiver lets a qualified service member apply with no skills testing, and sometimes without the passenger, hazmat and tanker endorsement knowledge tests. A School Bus endorsement cannot be transferred this way.
Source: Vermont Commercial Driver's Manual — Military Skills Test Waiver
6. How must a Vermont CDL be renewed?
Correct answer: In person
The manual states that you have to appear in person to renew a CDL. A renewal notice is mailed ahead of time, assuming the Department has your current mailing address.
Source: Vermont Commercial Driver's Manual — Commercial Driver's License Expiration and Renewal
7. A Vermont driver wants an air brake restriction taken off the license. Besides a test fee and a skills deposit, what does the manual require first?
Correct answer: A commercial learner's permit held for at least 14 days
An applicant who wants a restriction removed has to get a commercial learner's permit and keep it at least 14 days ahead of the skills test.
Source: Vermont Commercial Driver's Manual — Skills Test
8. Vermont's fee note treats the two school bus types differently. How?
Correct answer: Type I endorsement and skills test carry a fee; Type II has none
The note under the fee list says the Type I school bus endorsement and skills test carry a fee, while Type II school bus has no fee.
Source: Vermont Commercial Driver's Manual — Commercial Driver's License Fees
9. A Vermont applicant passes the first segment of the skills test in the morning but fails the second. May they go on to the next segment that afternoon?
Correct answer: No, failing a segment bars the next segment that same day
Failing one segment of the skills test stops the applicant there: the following segment cannot be attempted that day.
Source: Vermont Commercial Driver's Manual — Skills Test
10. TSA tells a Vermont driver it has found them to be a security risk. What does the manual say the driver must do with the CDL?
Correct answer: Return it to a DMV office so the Hazardous Materials Endorsement can be removed
The driver has to bring the CDL back to a DMV office to have the Hazardous Materials Endorsement taken off. A new CDL without that endorsement is then issued.
Source: Vermont Commercial Driver's Manual — Standards for Federal Security Threat Assessment
11. For how long does a completed Vermont school bus clinic stay valid toward getting the endorsement?
Correct answer: Six months
The clinic is good for six months from its date of issue. A driver who has not obtained the school bus endorsement by then has to attend another clinic.
Source: Vermont Commercial Driver's Manual — School Bus Endorsements
12. According to Vermont's CDL fee list, what does a Commercial Learner's Permit (CDP) cost?
Correct answer: $18
The fee list puts the learner's permit at $18. The other figures belong to different lines: $17 is each endorsement test, $29 is the skills test scheduling deposit, and $39 is each knowledge or skills test.
Source: Vermont Commercial Driver's Manual — Commercial Driver's License Fees
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