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Based on official TN exam questions

Free Tennessee CDL Permit Practice Test: General Knowledge 2025

  • Perfect for first-time and renewal CDL/CLP applicants, and those adding endorsements.

Truck drivers should find plenty of work in the great state of Tennessee because of its agriculture and manufacturing sectors and the state’s role as a major regional logistics hub. The largest manufacturing sector is automotive manufacturing. Hundreds of automotive suppliers are also represented. Other large manufacturing sectors are chemicals and food and drink production. FedEx is located here; its Memphis hub processes over 180,000 packages per day. One of the largest employment sectors is research and development, leveraging the Oak Ridge science complex. Numerous high-tech firms need truck drivers to deliver equipment and supplies to them. The Port of Memphis is the fifth largest inland port in the country, equipped for heavy intermodal transportation. Seaports, like airports, have secure areas. You’ll need a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) card to pick up cargo there.

Tennessee is also the 11th most visited state in the country. Tourists flock to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Tennessee River Valley, Elvis Presley’s birthplace in Memphis, and other points of interest, creating a demand for bus drivers.

Several highways support Tennessee’s role as a regional logistics hub: Interstate 40 starts in southern California, goes through Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville, and then terminates in North Carolina. Interstate 65 runs from northern Indiana through Nashville and then south to Mobile, Alabama. Interstate 75 runs from northern Michigan at the Canadian border through Knoxville and Chattanooga and then south to suburban Miami, Florida.

To practice commercial driving under supervision, you must obtain a Commercial Learner’s Permit (CLP). You must meet several requirements, including passing an official knowledge test on commercial driving theory. You should read the official Tennessee Commercial Driver License Manual (Tennessee CDL Handbook 2025) because the official knowledge test is based on it. However, the manual isn’t that easy to learn from. Some aspiring drivers read the manual but failed the knowledge test anyway. We can help, just as we’ve helped thousands of aspiring drivers pass their knowledge tests.

This free Tennessee CDL permit practice test is based on the official state manual, just like the official knowledge test. It’s up to date as of November, 2025. There are 50 multiple-choice questions on such topics as driving techniques, emergency preparedness, following distance, and pre-trip inspections. Unlike the official knowledge test, this free Tennessee CDL permit practice test comes with our automated assistant, which can help you out with a question by giving you a hint and an explanation of the correct answer. What this practice test doesn’t have is a time limit. Take your time to improve your chances of passing the test while learning as much as you can from the experience.

Available in EN and ES
TN commercial driver's license
Real exam-style pitfalls you’ll practice:
Common Traps
Distractors
Trick Wording
Double Negatives

Authored and curated by Steven Litvintchouk, M.S.

Chief Educational Researcher (ACES member)
Methodology & Editorial Policy
Last verified for accuracy: November 2025 (reviewed weekly)

What to expect on the actual TN permit test

50

questions

40

correct answers to pass

80%

passing score

Real Tennessee drivers who passed first try

Verified student reviews • Shared with permission

When I went to do the test, I passed in the first first try.
Started like three weeks before the exam, and let me say, going over and over those questions, studying the manual, it was like a review. So I would recommend this platform to anyone who is planning to do the test. It's such a great resource.
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Process was very easy to get started.
It was step by step all the way through. I passed hazmat and tanker first try within just 2 days of using the software.
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Dedication Pays Off.
First of all, the company was very honest and helpful with informing me about the program and how it works. The material was so straight forward that the only thing that I had to do was sit down and commit myself and learn everything. I enjoyed how the material was presented to me. It wasn’t just thrown together like some other schools do just to make a buck, this was presented in a step by step tutorial that it made the material easy and fun to learn. But you have to put the time into it, I personally put 3 wholehearted days into it and my scores are proof of all my hard work. Monday 9th I will take my 3 endorsement test at my local DMV, my confident that I will pass is not an issue because of my dedication to this program. The 3 test are as followed: 1) H-Hazmat 2) T-Tankers 3) D-Doubles & Triples Thank You so much. Sincerely, Heidi Grace Sundermier Toone Tennessee
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I’m just a regular guy.
I was skeptical about all those driving manual study guides, or the other web based tests. Driving-tests helped me pass my class A CDL permit test and get an endorsement. It is clean and simple to use. Honestly I will use them again when I choose to get another endorsement.
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Good experience.
Good experience, general tests involve mixing A and B together but I’d guess that’s true everywhere. (Am learning for exclusively B.) In depth involved useful, I’d recommend. My best wishes to the company hope they continue in business. Also got the school bus and passenger endorsement ELDT. Over 600 questions 11 hours of video for the general CDL training alone. If you don’t know where to start this might be a good place.
DH
I am a class a driver with 20 plus years of driving and this is the first time i needed a Hazmat endorsement.I took your ELDT class,and passed my Hazmat test,in less than 5 mins.Thank you.
All the information you need is up front and made very easy to use.The videos and the test were on point to learn,the knowledge needed to pass the Hazmat test
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