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Driving Combination Vehicles Safely

Driving Combination Vehicles Safely is a required knowledge area under 49 CFR 383.111(c)(3)(i), covering general safe operating practices required of any driver operating a combination vehicle.

Practice Driving Combination Vehicles Safely

4 Questions

  1. Which factor most increases the risk that a combination vehicle will roll over in a curve or sudden maneuver?
  2. Why must drivers use extra caution and allow more following distance when driving an empty or lightly loaded combination vehicle?
  3. You are driving a combination vehicle and, after applying the brakes hard, you see in your mirrors that the trailer has begun to swing out of your lane. What is the correct response?
  4. When a straight-line back is not possible and the path must curve, which side should you back a combination vehicle toward, and why?