Commercial Driving (US)

What is in this deck

With this deck you learn the federal half of commercial driving: licence classes, hours of service, air brakes, coupling, cargo and hazardous materials.

A commercial licence is issued by a state and governed by the federal government. This deck is the federal half, which is the half that is the same everywhere.

101 cards: the licence classes and what disqualifies a driver, the hours of service with the fourteen-hour clock that does not stop, the air brake system from governor cut-out to the pressure at which the spring brakes apply themselves, coupling a trailer in the order that makes the tug test meaningful, cargo securement, and the hazardous materials rules.

Three proposals, one deck. General knowledge, air brakes and combination vehicles are three endorsements and one body of knowledge; a driver studies all three together. The state handbook is not reproduced here and it remains the authority on the state's own questions.

The categories decide what comes up: start with “Air brakes” alone and add the rest when you are ready.

What you learn

• Licence classes, endorsements and what disqualifies
• Hours of service, the 14-hour clock and the 30-minute break
• Air brakes: the numbers, the tests and brake fade
• Coupling, off-tracking, jackknife and rearward amplification
• Cargo weight, surge, placards and the shipping paper

The categories

14 categories sort the 101 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.

1. Air brakes
2. Cargo
3. Combination vehicles
4. Driving
5. Endorsements
6. Hazmat
7. Hours
8. Hours of service
9. Inspection
10. Regulation
11. Rules and licensing
12. Special situations
13. Testing
14. Weights

Where the content comes from

The cards follow 49 CFR Parts 380 to 399, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, published by Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. As of Stand 2024.

Learning with Qardbox

You see a card, you think, you turn it over and say whether you knew it. A round asks nothing more of you, and how the app works out the next date from that is on the page about FSRS-6.

What sits comes back less often, what wobbles comes back soon. You set a daily goal, and when nothing is due the app tells you exactly that instead of inventing work for you. How a round goes is shown on the learning page.

Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no ads. After the purchase the deck sits in your library like any other subject and can be studied, reordered and extended just like your own.

What it costs, and what it doesn’t

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Your own cards stay unlimited, and decks from friends or from the family you read in without a limit, from a file as well. You do not need this deck in order to learn with Qardbox.

It is a shortcut: 101 checked cards for €0.99, once, with Family Sharing. The work you would otherwise do is already done. The App Store shows the price in your currency.