A full sitting, mixed subjects, marked at the end
A practice test here is a full sitting rather than a quiz. The whole set in one run, mixed subjects, marked at the end so you can see which subjects cost you rather than which individual questions you got wrong.
The real test behind it is the Heavy Vehicle Knowledge Test: 45 questions on road rules and road safety for your licence class, set by Transport for NSW. It is computer based, booked online through myRTA or at a service centre, and it comes in two versions, heavy vehicle rigid for LR, MR and HR and heavy vehicle combination for HC and MC. A test fee is payable on each attempt, so check the current amount before you book.
Nine tests, and the order to use them in
Open Practice Test 1 before you study anything, because a cold run is the only one that tells you the truth. When it marks, write down the subjects you missed rather than the questions, since one wrong question is one question while a weak subject will cost you again and again. Take those subjects apart at truck practice, one at a time, then open a different practice test rather than the same one. A set you re-sit straight away teaches you the answers to those questions, not the rules behind them. Rotate through fresh sets, come back to a worked subject a few days later, and move up to the mock tests once two different tests in a row come back clean.
Practice Test 1
Practice Test 2
Practice Test 3
Practice Test 4
Practice Test 5
Practice Test 6
Practice Test 7
Practice Test 8
Practice Test 9
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Open Test 1 before you study
A cold run is the only one that shows you the truth.
- 2
List subjects, not questions
One wrong question is noise. A weak subject is work.
- 3
Take that subject apart
The subject sets are at truck practice, one subject to a set.
- 4
Use a different test next
A fresh mix proves the subject, not your memory of one set.
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Move on at two clean runs
Two different tests in a row with no misses, then the mocks.
Which test to open, and when
There are 9 truck practice tests on this page, 45 questions each, 405 questions in total. Every one is in the shape of the real sitting, and every one is free.
The numbering is a path, not a ladder. Test 9 is no harder than Test 1, so there is no order you have to follow and no reason to save one for the end. Open Test 1 first because it is a starting point, then take whichever one you have not sat yet.
If the same subject costs you across two different tests, stop working down the list. Work that subject at truck practice and come back to a test you have not opened before. Two clean runs on two different tests is the point at which the mock tests are worth your time.
The subject mix inside each set
Each set mixes the whole subject list the way the real sitting does, so you are never told in advance which subject a question belongs to. That is the point of a mixed set, and the reason a cold run tells you something.
Three of those subjects are heavy vehicle only. Load restraint, combination vehicles and rigid vehicles are on this test and on no car test, so if you are upgrading from a class C licence they are the ones to work first. Their sets are at truck practice, and load restraint in particular is at drill load restraint.
The familiar subjects are asked differently here. Stopping distances are longer, turns are wider, and tiredness over a long shift carries more weight than it does on a car test. The full subject list, with the size of every set, is at truck practice.
Reading a result that is not a score
The number a set shows at the end is a count of your own answers on this page. It is not an official result and it does not predict one.
Read it as a map instead. A run with load restraint and combination vehicles clean and one stray miss on a familiar subject is in better shape than a higher number with a heavy vehicle subject hiding inside it. The pattern across two or three runs tells you more than any single total.
Ready is not a number here. It is your last two mock tests coming back with no mistakes, with the heavy vehicle subjects among the clean ones.
What to do after the ninth test
Once two different practice tests in a row come back clean, sit a mock under test conditions at finish with a mock test. A mock is the same length sat in one go with nothing looked up, which is the part a practice test does not rehearse.
The knowledge test is a gate rather than the licence. Behind it sit an eyesight test and then either the Heavy Vehicle Competency Based Assessment with an accredited provider or the heavy vehicle driving test, with a medical assessment on top for class MC. Transport for NSW sets out that order.
These sets are built on the NSW bank. Sitting the test in another state means a different booking road and a different fee, so check both with your own road authority. For the Northern Territory, start at our Northern Territory page. Hazard perception clips are a separate test, at practise the hazard perception clips.
Official sources
The rules on this page follow the official requirements published by Transport for NSW Heavy Vehicle Knowledge Test page; Driver and rider licence fees. Always confirm current rules and fees with the authority before you book.