Testing
Who has to take Virginia's CDL knowledge test, what happens after a failed attempt, and where DMV's own free practice test lives.
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This site does not host a CDL practice test and does not print sample questions as though they came from DMV's own knowledge exam — that question bank is not published, and a page pretending otherwise would be guessing at the reader's expense. What these pages cover instead is the law around the test: who must take it under § 46.2-341.14, what the retest rules are after a failed attempt, and what a training course is required to do after three failures. Virginia DMV does not publish a practice test or a sample question bank of its own; what it does publish, free, is the Commercial Driver's Manual the exam is drawn from, and that is what these pages point to.
The CDL manual itself, and what each section of it is actually tested on, is covered under Getting a CDL.
All guides
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