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Skid Control and Recovery

Skid Control and Recovery is a required knowledge area under 49 CFR 383.111(a)(15) (causes, types, and recovery procedures for skids), named as categories without a codified technique for any of them.

Practice Skid Control and Recovery

5 Questions

  1. What most commonly causes a commercial vehicle to skid?
  2. What is the most common type of skid, and how does it happen?
  3. How should a driver correct a rear-wheel braking skid?
  4. What happens in a front-wheel skid, and how is it corrected?
  5. How is a drive-wheel acceleration skid, spinning drive wheels on ice or snow, corrected?