Theory test questions: Traffic laws, page 6
901 official Israeli theory test questions on traffic laws, with the correct answer to each.
- Which of the following sentences is correct regarding the duty to carry passengers on a public vehicle?
Correct answer: It is obligatory to carry any passenger that is willing to pay for the ride.
- Which seats on a route service bus are reserved for handicapped people?
Correct answer: One or two marked seats next to the bus entrance.
- Who is responsible for the entry and exit of bus passengers?
Correct answer: The bus driver.
- Which of the following sentences is correct as regards to the transportation of passengers carrying loaded weapons?
Correct answer: It is prohibited to drive passengers carrying loaded weapons, except for personnel on official duty.
- Is it permitted to load suitcases onto the passenger deck of a bus?
Correct answer: Yes, at the driver’s discretion, and only in a place that will not cause disturbance and allow clear passage for passengers.
- Is a bus driver permitted to refuse entry of children trolleys into the bus?
Correct answer: Yes, in the event that the bus is crowded and there is not enough space.
- Is it obligatory to install a reverse buzzer on a bus?
Correct answer: Yes, it is obligatory to install a buzzer, which will function automatically when shifting to reverse gear.
- One of the equipment requirements for a School bus is:
Correct answer: The installation of special flashing lights in the front and back, operated when the doors open.
- How would you mark a bus that needs to be left standing at night on an Inter-urban road?
Correct answer: By placing a warning triangle seen by approaching vehicles from a distance of at least 100 meters, as well as by operating the distress flashers (double indicators).
- When is it obligatory to light the inside of the bus?
Correct answer: During “lighting up time”.
- Who is responsible for cleaning the interior of the bus?
Correct answer: The bus driver.
- Is it permitted to smoke in a bus?
Correct answer: No – and it is even obligatory to place a “no smoking” sign inside the bus.
- A bus lane may also be used by vehicles of:
Correct answer: Paraplegic (wheel chair) tag holders.
- Vehicles of handicapped people (paraplegic handicap tag holders) are permitted to use a bus lane:
Correct answer: Also when an escort is driving the vehicle for the handicapped person.
- When riding a bus, is it obligatory to obey the instructions of the bus service employees?
Correct answer: Yes, you must obey the orders of the service employees.
- What is a bus driver obliged to do once he reaches his final destination?
Correct answer: He should stay on the bus until the last passenger comes off.
- Where should a panoramic mirror be installed in a bus?
Correct answer: In the front of the bus, so that the driver can see all the passengers.
- Are explosives or any other inflammables allowed to be transported in a bus?
Correct answer: No.
- A “school-children transport vehicle” is:
Correct answer: A private bus or a public vehicle used for transporting school children.
- To whom should you hand lost-and-found objects found in public vehicles?
Correct answer: To the police, or according to any pre-determined arrangements with the owner of the route service.
- Is it permitted to let off passengers on a freeway?
Correct answer: No.
- “Student transport” in a bus is:
Correct answer: Student transport to school or to a school's organized activity, other than on a route service.
- Where are wastebaskets required to be installed in a taxi?
Correct answer: Besides the driver’s seat and besides the back seat.
- When should the taxi roof-sign give an “Available” signal?
Correct answer: Whenever there are no passengers in the taxi.
- Who is responsible for displaying information and fare lists in a taxi?
Correct answer: The owner and the driver are responsible to display the route map, and fare, as instructed by the Controller of Road Transport.
- Where is a route service bus driver supposed to stop?
Correct answer: In the stations that were approved by the Controller of Road Transport within the route service license.
- The license of a private minibus states that the minibus may carry 16passengers apart from the driver. What is the maximum amount of passengers a "B" license may carry?
Correct answer: Eight passengers, excluding the driver.
- Who is authorized to repair or set a taxi meter?
Correct answer: A person authorized by the Authority as a certified service provider.
- On an urban road, where is a taxi driver permitted to stop in order to board and drop passengers?
Correct answer: In any place where parking is permitted, and at the side of red-white curbstones, provided that the taxi is not disturbing traffic.
- Is any taxi driver permitted to make sightseeing / touring rides?
Correct answer: Yes, provided that he has a permit from the Ministry of Tourism.
- Which seats are reserved for security personnel on a route service bus?
Correct answer: When driving on a non urban road - the two front seats on either side of the passageway.
- What is the maximum permitted length of a dual axle bus?
Correct answer: 13.5 meters.
- What rule applies to the transportation of packages on a bus?
Correct answer: It is permitted to transport packages when they are not disturbing or harmful to the passengers.
- As far as the law prohibiting smoking in public places is concerned, is a bus considered to be a public place?
Correct answer: Yes.
- In what types of buses is it obligatory to have a speed retarder?
Correct answer: Buses with a minimum all up weight of 10,000 kg.
- What is a taxi cab roof-sign?
Correct answer: A device installed on the roof of a taxi cab, which can be lighted, and is used for identification purposes.
- Is a bus driver permitted to drive with one of its doors open?
Correct answer: Driving with an open door is forbidden.
- Are you obliged to vacate your bus seat for a handicapped person, when bus seats have been marked and reserved in advance?
Correct answer: No.
- Define “bus”:
Correct answer: A motor vehicle designed to transport at least eight passengers apart from the driver, and is indicated as a bus within its registration document.
- Is a taxi driver permitted to smoke while driving?
Correct answer: No.
- How will a bus driver conduct himself when passengers start fighting?
Correct answer: Drive the bus to the nearest police station or turn to a policeman along the way.
- Which of the following vehicles must carry a rescue kit?
Correct answer: Touring vehicles and busses on inter-urban route service lines only
- How long after a change is made in the size of certain parts in the drive system, should the taxi meter be calibrated?
Correct answer: Within forty eight hours.
- What type of vehicle is obliged to have its inside lights turned-on during “light time”?
Correct answer: Buses.
- Is a bus driver permitted to smoke while driving?
Correct answer: No.
- What is the penalty of a passenger who was requested by the conductor to show his bus tickets but failed to do so?
Correct answer: He should pay the bus fare and a fine, according to the type of bus ride.
- When are the driver and conductor allowed to refuse a passenger from getting onto the bus?
Correct answer: When the passenger wears a skiing or skating boots on his feet.
- Are special taxis permitted to perform share-taxi rides?
Correct answer: Yes, through a corporation that has a license for that service route and under written approval from that corporation.
- What does the law state about carrying wheelchairs on taxis?
Correct answer: No fee is to be charged for carrying the wheelchair. However, a taxi driver is permitted to refuse carrying more than one wheelchair.
- What are the terms for operating a taxi at the “Ben-Gurion” airport?
Correct answer: Only a taxi having a permit from the Licensing Authority can operate in the Ben-Gurion Airport, and only in accordance with the permit’s terms, including taxi stopping and parking.
- Is the Authority permitted to suspend a taxi license?
Correct answer: Yes, if the license holder does not attend after being summoned by the Authority.
- Under what condition would a bus driver permit a passenger to carry luggage on the bus?
Correct answer: That it doesn’t disturb or harm the passengers.
- Do the regulation applying to bus passengers apply also to taxi passengers?
Correct answer: Yes.
- Who determines the taxi fare?
Correct answer: The Minister of Transport – within the Control of Prices of Commodities and Services .
- Who determines the fare of a special taxi ride?
Correct answer: The Minister of Transport.
- What is the additional charge applied on share taxi rides from 23:31 until 04:59?
Correct answer: 25 percent.
- Which body authorizes and performs taxi license change of ownership?
Correct answer: The Controller of Road Transport.
- According to the law, what measures should a bus driver lawfully take before entering the bus?
Correct answer: Performing a security check and a safety check.
- What should a bus driver check after the passengers boarded the bus and before starting to drive?
Correct answer: That the bus doors are closed.
- According to the law, the semi trailer (which is part of a "articulated vehicle"):
Correct answer: Must have warning stickers on its rear side,
- Picking up or dropping off pupils on student transport is permitted:.
Correct answer: From the front right door only.
- In a student transport minibus, student boarding and dropping is performed:
Correct answer: From the front right door or from another door at the vehicle’s front.
- In a student transport vehicle, it is prohibited to drive students:
Correct answer: While they are standing.
- A warning triangle must be carried by:
Correct answer: All motor vehicles, including trailers and semi-trailers, but excluding motorcycles.
- When driving near a group of children, the driver is required to:
Correct answer: Slow down and, if needed, stop the vehicle.
- Which type of "city policing" vehicle is permitted to emit a blue light with a flashing yellow light?
Correct answer: Integrated policing vehicles.
- Where in a vehicle should a fire extinguisher be placed?
Correct answer: In a visible place with easy access to enable quick operation.
- A policeman may stop a vehicle and have it checked:
Correct answer: Due to the level of pollution emitted from the vehicle’s engine.
- A policeman is permitted to issue a “vehicle non-use notice” (taking a vehicle off the road) when:
Correct answer: The vehicle causes air pollution beyond permitted levels.
- How should a driver conduct himself when another vehicle suddenly emerges in his driving lane from the opposite direction, heading towards him?
Correct answer: Slow down, pull as far right as possible and even pull onto the “hard shoulder” if necessary.
- What is the general excessive freight width permitted in a commercial vehicle with an all up weight of more than 15,000kg?
Correct answer: Up to 3.40 meters, when the freight is in one unit.
- When is it obligatory to hold a police authorization for transporting a long freight?
Correct answer: When the length of the vehicle plus the freight it carries exceeds 20 meters.
- The width of a commercial vehicle (except for a vehicle with a refrigeration unit) shall not exceed:
Correct answer: 2.55 meters.
- A freight transporting vehicle shall be marked with a “Caution, wide load” sign when:
Correct answer: The freight width is more than 2.50 meters.
- When is a driver of a vehicle weighing more than 6,000 kg required to take a half hour brake?
Correct answer: After a maximum of 4 hours of non-stop driving.
- What is the maximum permitted length of a rigid vehicle?
Correct answer: 18.75 meters.
- With is the maximum permitted length of a three-axle commercial vehicle?
Correct answer: 12.00 meters.
- With is the maximum permitted length of a two-axle commercial vehicle?
Correct answer: 12.00 meters.
- What is the meaning of “permitted load” on a commercial vehicle?
Correct answer: The maximum weight in Kg that is permitted to be loaded on the vehicle.
- What is the maximal excessive freight length permitted from the rear of a vehicle with an all up weight that exceeds 15,000kg?
Correct answer: One third the length of the loading platform – and only when the freight is in one unit.
- What is the all up weight of a trailer with 2 axles or more that is designed for transporting a container of any size?
Correct answer: Not less than 29,000 kg.
- What is a driver required to do when there’s a change in his health condition?
Correct answer: Report about it immediately to the Licensing Bureau via registered mail.
- The transportation of which freight width requires a permit from a police officer?
Correct answer: A freight width of more than 3.40 meters.
- What is the general freight height (from the ground) which requires a permit from a police officer?
Correct answer: More than 4.80 meters.
- What is the maximum freight height (when the freight is in one unit) permitted on a commercial vehicle with an all up weight of more than 15,000kg (without a permit from a police officer)?
Correct answer: 4.80 meters.
- What is the maximum freight height permitted on a commercial vehicle with an all up weight of between 8000 kg to 15,000kg?
Correct answer: 4.00 meters.
- When should you operate a flashing yellow lamp above the driver’s compartment?
Correct answer: When the length of the freight or of the vehicle exceeds 20.00 meters.
- A vehicle registration document shall not be issued for a bus or renewed for a bus:
Correct answer: More than 20 years after its manufacture date.
- You are driving in the left lane of a one-way road. The driver in the right lane before you slowed down due to a pedestrian crossing the road from right to left. You are close to the pedestrian crossing, and therefore:
Correct answer: You should slow down and allow the pedestrian to finish crossing.
- What is the obligatory number of rest days per year for a driver of a commercial vehicle with an all up weight of more than 6,000 kg?
Correct answer: At least 52 days.
- Which type of driver must rest at least 7 consecutive hours before commencing his work day?
Correct answer: Driver of a public service vehicle and of a commercial vehicle that has an all up weight of more than 6,000 kg and that is permitted to carry at least 11 passengers.
- What is the meaning of this sign?
Correct answer: Flashing orange light at road works.
- Which type of motor vehicle is authorized to carry a freight container?
Correct answer: A commercial motor vehicle with a minimum all up weight of 16,000 kg.
- When does a vehicle carrying oversize freight require escort?
Correct answer: When the width of its freight is more than 3.40 meters.
- Which of the following vehicles requires chains and flags (perimeter lighting)?
Correct answer: A trailer and a semi-trailer that don’t have a floor and walls.
- Which of the following vehicles must carry a fire extinguisher?
Correct answer: All motor vehicles, except for private passenger cars, tractors, motorcycles and motorcycle and side-car
- You want to carry a container on a trailer. What should be the all up weight of the trailer in order to carry a container?
Correct answer: At least 15,000 kg.
- Who is responsible for arranging the freight on the vehicle and ensuring that it is intact?
Correct answer: Only the driver.
- Who is responsible for the proper functioning of the “speed governer” that is installed in the vehicle?
Correct answer: The driver and the vehicle owner.
- When does the transport of high freight require the approval of a “police officer”?
Correct answer: In a commercial vehicle with an all up weight of more than 15,000 kg, when the height of the freight is more than 4.80 meters above ground.