Nevada CDL Practice Test

The Nevada DMV 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).

The Nevada Commercial Driver’s License Manual (DMV 702): Nevada’s own rules, then 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 Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Why 80% in every state →

180 days. You must hold it 14 days before the skills test, and if it has been expired 30 days or more you retake the knowledge tests to renew it. A second renewal also means retaking them. Nevada Commercial Driver’s License Manual p. iii

21 for interstate commerce and 25 to drive an over-length (70-foot) combination. Drivers 18 to 20 may drive only within Nevada, without passengers for hire or placarded hazardous materials. Nevada Commercial Driver’s License Manual p. ii

A CDL holder at least 25 years old with the right class and endorsements, held for at least a year, seated beside you (or right behind you on a bus). Nevada Commercial Driver’s License Manual p. iii

No. Since November 2025 the Nevada DMV no longer issues or renews limited-term (non-domiciled) CLPs and CDLs, following federal rules; existing ones run out with the holder’s lawful stay.

Eight years for drivers under 65; four years for drivers 65 and older. Nevada Commercial Driver’s License Manual p. iv

Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) lists the current fees for the commercial learner permit, the CDL tests and the license on its official fee page.

Four DMV offices give drive tests: Elko and Winnemucca by appointment only, and Reno and Silverado (in Las Vegas), which also take walk-ins. The other CDL offices, such as Carson City, Ely, Fallon and Laughlin, handle every other CDL task. Book the drive test only once you've passed all your knowledge tests.

Yes. Besides being on the federal training registry, a school training you in Nevada should hold a Nevada business license, or the DMV may not accept your training; check the state's business license list before you sign up. Colleges with accredited CDL programs are the exception and won't appear on it.

At the DMV, once you finish the final paperwork and pay the license fee, you leave with a temporary CDL. The card itself comes by mail, usually within about 10 business days.

For your first CDL, for any change to your CDL that calls for a skills test (a higher class, say, or removing a restriction), and when your CDL has not been valid for over four years.

Your current license, an original proof of identity such as a certified birth certificate or U.S. passport, proof of your Social Security number (the card, a W-2, a 1099 or a pay stub showing the full number) and two documents with your name and Nevada home address.

Excepted drivers who use a CMV only for set purposes, such as government work, fire and rescue emergencies, beekeeping or custom harvesting, or school buses carrying students between home and school; extracurricular trips need an exam. A farmer qualifies only in a non-combination vehicle within 150 air-miles of the farm.

Not a CDL. A CDL of any class already covers lower classes and your own vehicles, but if a private RV falls within the Class A or B weights and you have no CDL, you get a non-commercial license of that class.

No. Instead, drivers for certificated passenger carriers get a driver permit from the Nevada Transportation Authority, and taxi drivers in Clark County get theirs from the Nevada Taxicab Authority.

Yes, with form CDL 004, if you serve (active duty, Guard or reserves) or left within a year in a job driving CMV-type vehicles, with two years in that class. Nevada also asks for no suspension in four years, no DUI in seven and fewer than three moving violations in four.

Possibly, for driving inside Nevada. The DMV can waive a federal physical standard you don't meet. You apply with your DOT exam, your medical certificate and a doctor's evaluation (an optometrist's for vision problems). With epilepsy or insulin-treated diabetes, you first need a full year with no seizures or dizzy spells.

The test stops there. The three parts run in a set order (vehicle inspection, basic control, then the road test), and a failed part ends that attempt. Parts you passed keep counting only while your current learner permit is valid; once the permit is renewed, you take all three again.

Not for certain driving. Farmers are exempt in their own farm vehicle hauling crops, machinery or supplies to or from the farm within 150 miles, if it isn't for hire and carries no placarded hazmat. Firefighters and other drivers of emergency vehicles with lights and sirens, and military drivers on military duty, are exempt too.

Only for the first standardized instructions. Interpreters aren’t allowed during any knowledge or skills test, and you must follow the skills examiner’s instructions in English. Nevada Commercial Driver’s License Manual p. iv

Two or more moving violations in a CMV in four years means the CDL general knowledge test; three or more in other vehicles means the Nevada general knowledge test. Keeping hazmat takes its test and a background check. Nevada Commercial Driver’s License Manual p. iv

You must be 21 and have finished hazmat entry-level training. Apply to TSA online or by phone, then give fingerprints at an IdentoGO site (prints from police or other vendors aren't accepted). TSA takes about 30 days and mails the result, and the DMV won't give the hazmat test until you have the approval letter.

Each comes off with a test in the right vehicle: L (no air brakes) needs the air brake knowledge test and a skills test with air brakes, E a skills test with a manual gearbox, O one in a tractor-trailer with a fifth wheel, and Z one with full air brakes. An upgrade that needs a skills test also needs a new learner permit, held 14 days.

Five years. About 90 days before the endorsement runs out, the DMV mails a notice; before that date, get a new TSA approval, remove the endorsement or downgrade. Do nothing and your license and every driving privilege are suspended, with a certified letter about 10 days before.

Yes. If you passed the TSA background check in your previous state, bring that approval letter to the DMV. You also show proof of U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residence, which federal rules require with every hazmat application.

Carry the waiver with your CDL, give your employer a copy and stay inside Nevada. Report any moving-violation conviction or crash in a commercial vehicle to the DMV within 15 days. The waiver runs out two years after your medical exam, and you can't renew the CDL until the waiver is renewed.

Electronically: since June 16, 2025, examiners on the National Registry upload them to FMCSA and the DMV pulls them from there. Allow one to three days before they show in your MyDMV account, and keep your own copy of the MCSA-5876 certificate. Mailed or faxed papers can take four to six weeks.

Yes, by changing your self-certification to Excepted at a DMV office, if you drive only in excepted work or not commercially for now. To leave commercial driving for good, trade the CDL for a regular Class C license instead. Do nothing, and an expired medical card can lead the DMV to downgrade you itself.

No. CDL renewals, upgrades and transfers are done in person at a DMV office that handles commercial licenses.

Within 30 days of becoming a Nevada resident. You surrender your old license, show identity, residency and Social Security proof, add your medical certificate if your self-certification needs one, and can choose a REAL ID or a standard CDL.

Yes. A commercial driver convicted of a traffic offense in another state reports it to the DMV within 30 days on the Notification of Conviction form (CDL 005), and tells the employer too.

Every conviction from a single stop gets its points. For CDL holders and anyone driving a commercial vehicle, the DMV assigns demerit points to each traffic conviction from one occasion, whatever its point value, so several tickets from one stop all count. Repeats of the very same violation on that occasion count once.

Often, yes. If the alcohol level behind the commercial disqualification wouldn't cost a regular driver their license, you can apply for a noncommercial license straight away. If that level would also suspend a regular license, you can apply once that suspension period is over.