AIR BRAKES CDL PRACTICE TEST - COLORADO

11. Why should you check your mirrors regularly to know where other vehicles are around you?
To know whether you can make a quick lane change in an emergency.
To flash the brake lights if you are being tailgated.
To better assess your own speed.
To move out of their way if they want to get past.
12. You are going down a steep grade. Once the vehicle is in the proper low gear, you should brake just hard enough to feel a slowdown, and then release the brakes when your speed has been reduced to ____ below your safe speed.
10 mph
15 mph
20 mph
5 mph
13. In vehicles with air brakes, the air compressor governor:
controls how much air the air compressor will pump into the air storage tanks.
controls when the air storage tanks will pump air into the air compressor.
controls when the air compressor will pump air into the air storage tanks.
None of the above.
14. If the spring brakes do not release when you push the trailer air supply control, you should:
rev or lug the engine.
pump the brakes.
check the air line connections.
check the electrical cables.
15. Axle weight is:
the weight transmitted to the ground by one axle or one set of axles.
the value specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of one axle.
the weight of all the axles added together.
the maximum safe weight your tires can carry at a specified pressure.
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