Drivers Hours And Rest Periods Practice Questions
About This Topic
Fatigue regulation is central to professional driving. These questions cover drivers' hours rules: daily and weekly driving limits, breaks, rest periods, tachograph operation and record keeping. Numbers matter here — the difference between a right and wrong answer is often half an hour.
What the DVSA tests here
- Daily driving limits, 45-minute breaks and split-break rules
- Daily and weekly rest requirements and when they may be reduced
- Using digital tachographs, driver cards and manual entries correctly
Practising this topic
This section holds 78 practice questions on drivers' hours and rest periods, each followed by a clear explanation of the right answer. The LGV and PCV multiple-choice exam runs to 100 questions with a pass mark of 85, drawing on every module in the vocational syllabus. Revisit your wrong answers a day or two later — spaced repetition works far better than answering the same questions back to back.
In the run-up to test day
Professional drivers usually revise around shifts, which makes short, focused sessions the practical choice: a module like this one can be reviewed in fifteen minutes at the start or end of a working day. Treat exact figures — weights, hours, pressures and speed limits — as facts to memorise rather than rules of thumb, because the exam tests them precisely. Once the module feels secure, fold it into 100-question mock papers so your accuracy holds across the full hour and fifty-five minutes of the real test.