Kansas CDL Practice Test

Kansas doesn’t publish its test sizes. Our practice tests follow the usual CDL format: General Knowledge 50 questions (40 to pass), Hazmat 30 (24), Air Brakes 25 (20), and Combination, Tank, Doubles/Triples, Passenger and School Bus 20 each (16 to pass).

Once a single vehicle weighs 26,001 pounds or more, or a combination is rated at 26,001 pounds or more in total. Passenger, school bus and hazmat vehicles need a CDL with the right endorsement.

The Kansas Commercial Driver’s License Handbook (March 2025): licensing, inspection, safe driving, cargo, passengers, air brakes, combination vehicles, doubles and triples, tankers, hazardous materials and school buses.

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 Kansas Department of Revenue, Division of Vehicles. Why 80% in every state →

Yes, for a first Class A or B CDL, an upgrade from B to A, a first P or S skills test, or a first hazmat endorsement. Training must come from a provider on FMCSA’s Training Provider Registry before Kansas lets you test. Some drivers are exempt, such as military skills-waiver applicants and qualifying farmers.

CDL skills exams are by appointment only: call the CDL skills testing office you plan to visit to schedule your drive.

Since June 2, 2025, Kansas can’t enter a paper medical examiner’s certificate by hand: your examiner's report has to reach the state electronically, through the federal National Registry. Get a new exam before your current certificate expires to avoid a downgrade.

Yes, if you qualify for the military skills test waiver: regular military truck driving in the last 12 months, a clean driving record for the past two years and your commanding officer’s certification on the CDL Military Skills Waiver form.

Kansas Department of Revenue, Division of Vehicles lists the current fees for the commercial learner permit, the CDL tests and the license on its official fee page.

At Division of Vehicles offices in Chanute, Colby, Dodge City, Edgerton, Garden City, Hays, Phillipsburg, Salina, Seneca, Topeka and Wichita. Edgerton and Topeka have limited staff, so call before going there for a written test.

An hour to an hour and a half, depending on conditions. Schedules change with the office's workload, so call ahead to make sure an examiner is free; the test and examiner may also be observed for quality checks.

Online through the Department of Revenue's CDL medical self-certification service, or with the paper form by fax, email, mail or at a full-service exam office. Non-excepted interstate drivers don't file anything: the certificate arrives from the National Registry, and if it isn't on your record within 48 hours, check with your examiner.

Yes. Kansas law (K.S.A. 8-2,157) requires every CDL holder to complete Truckers Against Trafficking training before a CDL is issued or renewed. It is a short film and quiz of about 30 minutes, taken online or at a full-service exam office, and done only once: you show the certificate at each issuance or renewal.

Kansas law sets three parts: a pre-trip inspection, a skills test and a road test. If you fail any part, you may take that test again, but another drive test fee applies each time.

Sometimes, but not twice in a row: an online renewal must follow one done in person. You must be 21 to 64 and not within 30 days of turning 21, and a hazmat endorsement rules it out. You need a valid medical examiner's certificate, proof of Truckers Against Trafficking training and an eye exam within the last year.

With every original application, renewal, upgrade or transfer of a Kansas CDL. Choosing the category is your job, not the DMV's; your employer or the CDL handbook can help. Category 3 (non-excepted intrastate) drivers must have a valid medical card but turn in only the form, and Categories 3 and 4 put the K restriction on the license.

Kansas removes your commercial privileges right away and marks you not certified in the national CDL system, but your regular driving privileges stay valid. Police check that system, so you could be put out of service. Check your certificate dates and category with the Division of Vehicles' online DL Status Check.

For interstate driving, waivers and exemptions come from FMCSA. If you drive only inside Kansas, the Division of Vehicles sends you to the Kansas Corporation Commission instead.

Kansas lists drivers whose old CDL was downgraded or expired over a year ago, holders of a CDL or CLP issued before February 7, 2022 for the same classes and endorsements, military skills-waiver or even-exchange applicants, seasonal CDL holders, qualifying farm owners, firefighters, emergency vehicle drivers and anyone testing only to remove a restriction.

The same CDL Military Skills Waiver form with your commanding officer's certification, plus a current motor vehicle record from your home state. You hand the forms in at any full-service state driver's license office.

Hand it in when you apply for the Kansas CDL, and switch within 30 days of becoming a resident: after that you may not drive a commercial vehicle on another state's license. To keep a hazmat endorsement, you take Kansas's hazmat written test again if more than two years have passed since you last passed one.

About five years. A first CDL expires on your birthday five years after the birthday nearest the day you applied, and each renewal adds five more; the Division mails a notice at least 30 days ahead. To keep a hazmat endorsement at renewal, you must pass the hazmat knowledge test again.

Pass the hazmat knowledge test and the TSA security threat assessment (fingerprints, criminal history, immigration and intelligence checks). Kansas won’t add the H endorsement until TSA reports you qualified.

Kansas checks FMCSA’s Clearinghouse before issuing or renewing any CDL or CLP. A driver reported as prohibited has 60 days from FMCSA’s notice to clear it, through the return-to-duty process, or loses commercial driving privileges.

Kansas issues a non-domiciled CDL only to drivers holding an H-2A, H-2B or E-2 visa, with a valid passport and an I-94 or I-797A.

Only to drive a school bus, or a bus a school district hires to carry pupils; city and other transit buses don't need it. With Passenger already on your CDL, you add School Bus with its knowledge test and a road test in the kind of school bus you'll drive.

Kansas has agreements with Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma that exempt farmers from CDL requirements for farm use across those borders; each agreement sets its own terms, so read the one for your route.

Intrastate only, given to drivers who certify for intrastate driving. You may drive CDL vehicles only in Kansas, and not on a Kansas leg of an interstate trip: hauling an intermodal container from Kansas City, Kansas, to Edgerton isn't allowed when it will go on by train and ship overseas.

After TSA approves you. Kansas won't give the Hazmat knowledge test, or the vision screening that goes with it, until the approval arrives, and you bring TSA's approval notice to a state driver's license office. A lawful permanent resident also gives their immigration alien registration number. Study section nine of the Kansas CDL handbook.

Kansas can still renew your CDL, but without the hazmat endorsement until TSA approves you, so you can't haul hazmat loads in the meantime. If you don't use the endorsement, you can simply drop it when you renew. A driver convicted of a disqualifying offense must surrender it at once.

Finish the return-to-duty process: a DOT-qualified substance abuse professional evaluates you and sets education or treatment, then your employer (or an owner-operator's consortium) sends you for the test. After a negative result Kansas reinstates you, and at least six unannounced follow-up tests come in the first 12 months.

Kansas law leaves out registered farm trucks carrying farm products, machinery or supplies to or from a farm (inside Kansas, or within 150 air miles of the farm across state lines), fire and emergency crews, military drivers, vehicles kept purely for private use, implement dealers moving farm tractors, and city employees driving a motor grader inside city limits.

A Class B or C CDL, issued without knowledge or skills tests, for Kansans 18 or older driving for farm retail outlets and suppliers, agri-chemical businesses, custom harvesters or livestock feeders. It lasts 180 days in a row, one per 12 months, only within 150 miles of the business or farm, and needs a year of driving experience.

Refusing, or testing at 0.04 or more, disqualifies you from commercial driving for at least a year. The officer serves the notice, and the disqualification starts on the 20th day after it. To challenge it, mail a hearing request within 10 days of being handed the notice, or 13 days if it came by mail.

Sometimes, after at least 10 years, if you apply in writing. Kansas restores it only if no offense was a DUI while driving a commercial vehicle, your record has been clean for those 10 years, you finished any required alcohol or drug treatment and it is your first restoration. You then retake the written and skills tests.