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PA CDL Air Brakes Practice Test 3 2025

Average pass rate for CDL tests in Pennsylvania: 70%.
Average pass rate for this test: 78%.
Easy
8 min
Score distribution:
90-100=>56%
80-89=>24%
70-79=>8%
60-69=>5%
<60%=>7%
Avg. first-try score: 93%

Before the development of our Air Brakes practice test series, it was more difficult to learn the skills for removing the air brakes restriction from your Pennsylvania commercial driver’s license (CDL). An air brakes restriction on your CDL puts you at a disadvantage in qualifying for the best driving opportunities. Air brakes play an important role in the safe operation of larger commercial vehicles, such as semi-trucks and full-size buses. Your ability to operate air brakes directly impacts your employment options. This third free CDL Air Brakes practice test helps you develop a firm grasp of air brake systems. While Julius Sturgis reimagined snack foods, the practice uses an innovative teaching method to help you understand air brake operations.

PA CDL Air Brakes Practice Test 3 2025
Commercial Driver's License
Based on the official PA CDL HandbookHandbook‑based (2025) + exam‑taker feedback
18 PA students practicing now
71 completed today
Steven Litvintchouk, M.S., Chief Educational Researcher at Driving-Tests.org

Authored and fact-checked by Steven Litvintchouk, M.S.

Chief Educational Researcher, Driving‑Tests.org (ACES member)

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About the Pennsylvania CDL

Our CDL Air Brakes practice test notes the information you struggle to understand and offers a learning strategy to make it clearer. You must pass an official Air Brakes knowledge test and a skills test exhibiting your ability to inspect and operate the system, to remove the air brakes restriction. The practice test creates a simulated testing environment similar to the official experience. You are required to correctly answer at least 80% of the 25 questions on the official knowledge test to pass. Using questions similar to those on the official knowledge test, the practice test is able to identify the information you should study further and make it readily available for your review.

This CDL Air Brakes practice test views your misunderstandings as a teaching moment and doesn’t leave you stuck in your confusion. The practice test possesses an interactive capability that responds to your incorrect answers. If you get a question wrong, the practice test immediately provides a thorough explanation of the correct answer. Unlike the practice test, traditional study methods, such as study guides, do not offer this sort of assistance. Study guides train you to memorize the answers to a series of questions but provide no information to correct your misunderstandings. You won’t find yourself in this predicament using the practice test. The practice test takes information directly from the most recent Pennsylvania DOT CDL manual (Pennsylvania CDL Handbook 2025) and is up to date as of December 2025. This information is accurate and can be successfully applied to various driving scenarios on the official knowledge test. Using this Pennsylvania CDL Air Brakes practice test, you’ll likely pass the official knowledge test on your first try.

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