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  • Updated for March 2025
  • Based on 2025 FL commercial driver's license manual

FL CDL Pre-Trip Inspection Practice Test 2025

Before getting your Commercial Driver’s License (CDL), you need to start driving with a Commercial Learner’s Permit (CLP) and develop a keen sense of safety. Your daily responsibilities will include performing a pre-trip inspection of your vehicle. Daily inspections of your vehicle will ensure it is safe to drive on public roads and in compliance with federal regulation 49 CFR § 396.13. Using a checklist to examine the critical systems and components of your vehicle, such as brakes, tires, and windshield wipers, will alert you to issues that could lead to accidents or mechanical malfunctions. The prospect of getting stuck atop the Sunshine Skyway Bridge should give you some idea of the importance of a pre-trip inspection. It is your responsibility to provide the safe transport of passengers or cargo. Failure to do so could result in bodily harm and significant monetary expenses.

Understanding how to perform a pre-trip inspection of a vehicle is one of the requirements for earning a CLP. Thus, it would be wise to become familiar with the process. You will likely see questions about pre-trip inspections on your DMV CDL General Knowledge Test. Since the knowledge test requires you to answer 80% of the 20 questions correctly to earn a passing grade, you should get up to speed (pun intended) on the pre-trip inspection process. By developing a thorough knowledge of the process, you will have no trouble answering these questions and performing a pre-trip inspection before an examiner during your skills test. Our Florida DMV CDL Pre-Trip Inspection Practice Test will teach you best practices for performing this task. It uses questions like the ones on the official knowledge test to strengthen your knowledge of the process and excel at your performance.

The CDL Pre-Trip Inspection Practice Test is unlike other on-line resources because it provides a simulated testing experience to optimize your learning potential. Each of the 20 multiple-choice questions, similar to those on the official knowledge test, is designed to bring you the most relevant information to sharpen your skills. The practice test is based on the most recent Florida DMV CDL driver’s manual (Florida CDL Handbook 2025) and is up to date as of March 2025. If you get a question wrong, the practice test will provide a comprehensive explanation of the correct answer. This information sets you on your way to ensuring that you know how to answer questions about a pre-trip inspection and how to perform it successfully. You may be tempted to use a study guide to prepare for your official knowledge test, but it won’t be as effective. Study guides will teach you to memorize the answers to the questions without supportive information. Don’t let it be something to think about while waiting for a tow truck!

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20

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16

correct answers to pass

80%

passing score

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