• Wear your safety belt.
  
• Obey all traffic signs, signals, and laws.
  
• Complete the test without an accident or 
  moving violation.
  

During the driving test, the examiner will be scoring 
you on specific driving maneuvers as well as on 
your general driving behavior. You will follow the 
directions of the examiner. Directions will be given 
to you so you will have plenty of time to do what 
the examiner has asked. You will not be asked to 
drive in an unsafe manner.

If your test route does not have certain traffic 
situations, you may be asked to simulate a traffic 
situation. You will do this by telling the examiner 
what you are or would be doing if you were in that 
traffic situation.

• 13.1.1 – Turns
  You have been asked to make a turn:
  
• Check traffic in all directions.
  
• Use turn signals and safely get into the lane 
  needed for the turn.
  
  As you approach the turn:
  
• Use turn signals to warn others of your turn.
  
• Slow down smoothly, change gears as needed 
  to keep power, but do not coast unsafely. 
  
• Unsafe coasting occurs when your vehicle is 
  out of gear (clutch depressed or gearshift in 
  neutral) for more than the length of your vehicle.
  
  If you must stop before making the turn:
  
• Come to a smooth stop without skidding.
  
• Come to a complete stop behind the stop line, 
  crosswalk, or stop sign.
  
  If stopping behind another vehicle, stop where 
  you can see the rear tires on the vehicle ahead 
  of you (safe gap).
  
• Do not let your vehicle roll.
  
• Keep the front wheels aimed straight ahead. 
  When ready to turn:
  
• Check traffic in all directions.
  
• Keep both hands on the steering wheel during 
  the turn.
  
• Keep checking your mirror to make sure the 
  vehicle does not hit anything on the inside of 
  the turn.
  
• Vehicle should not move into oncoming traffic.
  
• Vehicle should finish turn in correct lane.
  
  After turn:
  
• Make sure turn signal is off.
  
• Get up to speed of traffic 
•  
• Use turn signal
  
• Move into right-most lane when safe to do so (if 
  not already there).
  
• Check mirrors and traffic

• 13.1.2 – Intersections
  As you approach an intersection:
  
• Check traffic thoroughly in all directions. 
  
• Decelerate gently.
  
• Brake smoothly and, if necessary, change 
  gears.
  
• If necessary, come to a complete stop (no 
  coasting) behind any stop signs, signals, 
  sidewalks, or stop lines maintaining a safe gap 
  behind any vehicle in front of you.
  
• Your vehicle must not roll forward or backward.
  When driving through an intersection:
  
• Check traffic thoroughly in all directions.
  
• Decelerate and yield to any pedestrians and 
  traffic in the intersection.
  
• Do not change lanes while proceeding through 
  the intersection.
  
• Keep your hands on the wheel.
  
  Once through the intersection:
  
• Continue checking mirrors and traffic.
  
• Accelerate smoothly and change gears as
  necessary.

• 13.1.3 – Urban Business
  During this part of the test, you are expected to: 
  
• Make regular traffic checks 
  
• Maintain a safe following distance. 
  
• Your vehicle should be centered in the proper lane (right-most lane)
  
• You should keep up with the flow of traffic.  
  
• Do not exceed the posted speed limit.

• 13.1.4 –Lane Changes
  During multiple lane portions of the test, you will be 
  asked to change lanes to the left, and then back to 
  the right. 
  
• You should make the necessary traffic 
  checks first 
  
• Then use proper signals and smoothly 
  change lanes when it is safe to do so.

• 13.1.5 – Expressway or Rural/Limited Access Highway
  Before entering the expressway:
  
• Check traffic.
  
• Use proper signals.
  
• Merge smoothly into the proper lane of traffic.
  
  Once on the expressway:
  
• Maintain proper lane positioning, vehicle spacing, and vehicle speed. 
  
• Continue to check traffic thoroughly in all directions.
  
  When exiting the expressway:
  
• Make necessary traffic checks.
  
• Use proper signals.
  
• Decelerate smoothly in the exit lane. 
  
  Once on the exit ramp: 
  
• You must continue to decelerate within the lane markings
  
• Maintain adequate spacing between your vehicle and other vehicles.

• 13.1.6 – Stop/Start
  For this maneuver, you will be asked to pull your 
  vehicle over to the side of the road and stop as if 
  you were going to get out and check something on 
  your vehicle. 
  
• You must check traffic thoroughly in 
  all directions
  
• Move to the right-most lane or 
  shoulder of road.
  
  As you prepare for the stop:
  
• Check traffic.
  
• Activate your right turn signal.
  
• Decelerate smoothly, brake evenly, change gears as necessary.
  
• Bring your vehicle to a full stop without coasting.
  
  Once stopped:
  
• Vehicle must be parallel to the curb or shoulder 
  of the road and safely out of the traffic flow.
  
• Vehicle should not be blocking driveways, fire 
  hydrants, intersections, signs, etc.
  
• Cancel your turn signal.
  
• Activate your four-way emergency flashers.
  
• Apply the parking brake.
  
• Move the gear shift to neutral or park.
  
• Remove your feet from the brake and clutch pedals.
  
  When instructed to resume:
  
• Check traffic and your mirrors thoroughly in all directions.
  
• Turn off your four-way flashers.
  
• Activate the left turn signal.
  
• When traffic permits, you should release the parking brake and pull straight ahead. 
  
• Do not turn the wheel before your vehicle moves.
  
• Check traffic from all directions, especially to the left.
  
• Steer and accelerate smoothly into the proper lane when safe to do so.
  
• Once your vehicle is back into the flow of traffic, cancel your left turn signal.

• 13.1.7 – Curve
  When approaching a curve:
  
• Check traffic thoroughly in all directions. 
  
• Before entering the curve, reduce speed so further braking or shifting is not required in the curve.
  
• Keep vehicle in the lane.
  
• Continue checking traffic in all directions.

• 13.1.8 – Railroad Crossing
  Before reaching the crossing, all commercial drivers should:
  
• Decelerate Brake smoothly, and shift gears as necessary.
  
• Look and listen for the presence of trains.
  
• Check traffic in all directions. 
  
• Do not Stop 
  
• Do not change gears, pass another vehicle, or change lanes while any part of your vehicle is in the crossing. 
  
  If you are driving a bus, a school bus, or a vehicle displaying placards, you should be prepared to 
  observe the following procedures at every railroad crossing.
  As the vehicle approaches a railroad crossing:
  
• Activate the four-way flashers.
  
• Stop the vehicle within 50 feet but not less than 
  
• 15 feet from the nearest rail.
  
• Listen and look in both directions along the track for an approaching train and for signals 
  indicating the approach of a train. 
  
  If operating a Bus:   
  
• Open the window prior to crossing tracks.
  
• Keep hands on the steering wheel as the vehicle crosses the tracks.
  
• Do not stop 
  
• Do not change gears
  
• Do not change lanes while any part of your vehicle is proceeding across the tracks. 
  
• Four-way flashers should be deactivated after the vehicle crosses the tracks.
  
• Continue to check mirrors and traffic. 
  
  Not all driving road test routes will have a railroad 
  crossing. You may be asked to explain and 
  demonstrate the proper railroad crossing 
  procedures to the examiner at a simulated location.