Florida CDL Practice Test

Everyone takes General Knowledge. Class A adds Combination Vehicles, the Air Brakes test is needed if your vehicle has air brakes (most Class A vehicles do), and each endorsement you want has its own test.

No. Since February 6, 2026, every Florida driver license knowledge and skills test, CDL and oral tests included, is given in English only, and translation and interpreters are not allowed.

The Florida Commercial Driver License Manual: the introduction (licensing, medical rules and disqualifications), driving safely, cargo, passengers, air brakes, combination vehicles, doubles and triples, tank vehicles, hazardous materials and school buses, plus Florida's own pages at the front of the manual. Florida Commercial Driver License Manual p. 1-5

Three parts taken in order, each passed before the next: vehicle inspection, basic vehicle control and an on-road test, all in the type of vehicle you want to be licensed for. Florida Commercial Driver License Manual p. 1-5

80% on each of the 8 tests, each graded on its own (General Knowledge: 40 of 50). Every test's numbers are in the table on this page. Always confirm the current tests with the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV). Why 80% in every state →

18 to drive a commercial vehicle within Florida and 21 to drive across state lines. The hazardous materials endorsement also needs you to be 21. Florida Commercial Driver License Manual p. 1-10

Be a Florida resident with a Florida Class E license, give up any other driver license, not be suspended or disqualified anywhere, show an original Social Security card or W-2 (no photocopies), meet the federal vision and physical rules, and pass the required tests. Florida Commercial Driver License Manual p. 1-10

One document such as a Florida Class E license or ID card held more than six months, a lease, mortgage or deed in your name from more than six months ago, a Florida voter registration card, a statement of domicile or a homestead tax exemption filing.

Only Passenger (P), School bus (S) and Tank vehicle (N). A permit with P or S can't carry passengers, and one with N may only drive an empty tank. Florida Commercial Driver License Manual p. 1-2

Drivers of military vehicles for the armed forces, authorized emergency vehicles, farmers hauling their own supplies or products within 150 miles of the farm, recreational vehicles, and straight trucks carrying only the driver's own property that isn't for sale. Florida Commercial Driver License Manual p. 1-10

Yes, if you are getting a Class A or B CDL for the first time, upgrading from Class B to A, or getting your first school bus, passenger or hazmat endorsement. The federal rule applies to those tests from February 7, 2022. Florida Commercial Driver License Manual p. iv

No. The doubles/triples (T) endorsement covers pulling double or triple trailers, but triple trailers are not allowed on Florida roads.

Only to some visa holders. After a pause that began in September 2025, Florida resumed on May 13, 2026 for applicants who aren’t U.S. citizens or permanent residents and hold H-2A, H-2B or E-2 status. For every transaction, bring an unexpired foreign passport and an I-94 with an unexpired “Admit Until” date.

Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) lists the current fees for the commercial learner permit, the CDL tests and the license on its official fee page. County tax collector offices that issue licenses may add a service fee.

Yes, if you're still serving or within one year of leaving and have driven CDL-sized military vehicles for at least the past two years. You and your chain of command sign Florida's Certification for Waiver of Skill Test for Military Personnel, then you pass the knowledge tests at a driver license office, all within a year of separation.

Contracted third-party sites across Florida, such as technical colleges, school boards, truck driving schools and some carriers, overseen by FLHSMV's CDL and Third Party Testing Unit. Not every site tests every class: some test Class B and C only or Class A only, and only some can provide the commercial vehicle for the test.

It depends on its weight. A bus of 26,001 pounds or more needs a Class B, the class for straight trucks and buses of that size. A lighter vehicle designed for 16 or more people, driver included, needs a Class C. Either way you also need the Passenger (P) endorsement, which takes a written test and a skills test.

Yes. The School Bus (S) endorsement requires the Passenger (P) endorsement too, and both need a written test and a skills test. S covers carrying pre-primary, primary or secondary students between home and school or to school events, not buses run as common carriers. H, N and T need only written tests.

Pass the hazmat knowledge test, be fingerprinted at a driver license office that offers it, and pass the TSA background check. You get a CDL without the H endorsement the day you apply, and a new one is mailed once TSA approves.

Four years. You can renew up to a year early, and you should start the background check at least 30 days before it expires so you don't lose the endorsement while waiting.

Every CDL holder self-certifies in one of four types of commerce. Drivers in non-excepted interstate or intrastate commerce must keep a current medical card on file; since June 23, 2025, the medical examiner sends it electronically. Without it the CDL can be denied or disqualified.

Yes, Florida reciprocates an out-of-state CDL, but a hazmat endorsement must be applied for again, with the background check, tests and fees.

No. Florida CDL holders can't choose driver improvement school to avoid points for a ticket, even one received in a personal vehicle. Florida Commercial Driver License Manual p. 1-10

On a road with several lanes your way, leave the lane next to a stopped police, emergency, tow, sanitation or utility vehicle with warning lights, or slow to 20 mph below the limit if you can't. On a two-lane road slow to 20 mph below the limit, or to 5 mph where the limit is 20 or less. Florida Commercial Driver License Manual p. iii

Yes, a few federal rules. A first violation of an out-of-service order now costs your CDL for at least 180 days (the manual still says 90). If your license is suspended, revoked or canceled, or you are disqualified, tell your employer by the end of the next business day (the manual says within two business days). And for exams since June 23, 2025, FMCSA sends your medical examiner’s certificate to the state electronically, so you no longer hand in a paper copy.

FLHSMV advises drivers who work only inside Florida to consider Category A (non-excepted interstate) if they're eligible, which keeps the option to cross state lines. Drivers under 21, and drivers with certain medical conditions but no federal variance, can't choose A; certifying in C then adds an intrastate-only restriction to the CDL.

No. In Florida, not driving at the moment doesn't excuse you from medical certification. Unless your work fits one of the excepted categories (B or D), you must keep a current medical card on file or downgrade to a non-commercial license. If you later move from B or D into A or C work, you recertify.

Not once your medical examiner has sent the card electronically to FMCSA. FLHSMV still suggests carrying it for at least 15 days after the exam, until your driver record shows it. If any of your jobs is non-excepted interstate driving, such as long-haul trucking beside seasonal bee hauling, you certify in Category A.

Florida says the federal rules make no exception for service members on active deployment. If you can supply an acceptable medical certificate, your certification continues; otherwise the state has to start downgrading your CDL to a non-commercial license.

When you apply for the background check, you get a new license with a time-limited hazmat endorsement. Once TSA approves you, Florida mails a license whose endorsement lasts until the license next expires. FLHSMV can't tell you the status while TSA is still deciding, and appeals go through TSA.

Florida moved to letter codes in 2019. On older cards, 1 meant no air brakes (now L), 2 intrastate only (now K), 5 no tractor-trailer (now O), 6 no Class A passenger vehicle (now M) and 7 no Class B passenger vehicle (now N). The old Bus Only restriction is no longer issued but stays valid on older cards.

Both limit school bus driving: Q means no Class A school bus, and R means no Class A or B school bus. They sit alongside the passenger limits M (no Class A passenger vehicle) and N, which keeps a Class A or B holder out of Class B passenger vehicles.