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Alabama driver handbook guide

Alabama driver handbook guide.

Use this guide to navigate the 15 chapters in the handbook edition behind Roadwise’s Alabama course. Read the source, look up a rule in the study app, or work through 51 companion lessons.

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Handbook chapters
15
Source PDF pages
92
Companion lessons
51
Licensing agency
ALEA

A way through the handbook

Start with the application and licensing material that applies to your age and license type. Then work through the driving rules, signs, and safe-driving chapters. A rule is easier to remember when you can explain what it asks you to do in a real road situation.

For a quick refresher, use the chapter list below. For a deeper study session, follow a companion lesson and its checkpoint questions. The page numbers refer to this course’s source edition and may differ from the newest agency edition.

Chapter list

  1. Organ, Eye and Tissue Donation Source p. 2
  2. Governor's Letter Source p. 4
  3. Chapter 1: Your License to Drive Source p. 7
  4. Chapter 2: You May Lose Your License Source p. 19
  5. Chapter 3: The Driving Task Source p. 22
  6. Chapter 4: The Driver Source p. 33
  7. Chapter 5: Signs, Signals and Road Markings Source p. 43
  8. Chapter 6: Traffic Laws Source p. 61
  9. Chapter 7: Adjust to Driving Conditions Source p. 71
  10. Chapter 8: Driving the Freeways Source p. 78
  11. Chapter 9: Your Vehicle Source p. 81
  12. Parent Teen Driving Agreement Source p. 84
  13. GDL Summary Source p. 86
  14. Contact Information Source p. 87
  15. Online Services Source p. 91

What you will find in each chapter

Chapter 1 · source p. 2

Organ, Eye and Tissue Donation

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Organ and Tissue Donation: What are the Facts?
  • Driver Manual
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Chapter 2 · source p. 4

Governor's Letter

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Kay Ivey
  • Hal Taylor
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Chapter 3 · source p. 7

Chapter 1: Your License to Drive

This chapter’s sections include:

  • YOUR LICENSE TO DRIVE
  • A. Identification Requirements
  • B. Legal Date of Birth Requirements
  • C. Documentation Requirements
  • D. Social Security Number Requirements
  • E. Notarization Requirements
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Chapter 4 · source p. 19

Chapter 2: You May Lose Your License

This chapter’s sections include:

  • YOU MAY LOSE YOUR LICENSE
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Chapter 5 · source p. 22

Chapter 3: The Driving Task

This chapter’s sections include:

  • THE DRIVING TASK
  • Parking
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Chapter 6 · source p. 33

Chapter 4: The Driver

This chapter’s sections include:

  • THE DRIVER
  • Drinking And Driving
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Chapter 7 · source p. 43

Chapter 5: Signs, Signals and Road Markings

This chapter’s sections include:

  • SIGNS, SIGNALS AND ROAD MARKINGS
  • Stop
  • Turns On Red
  • Bump
  • Dip
  • Park
  • Driving a one-lane roundabout
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Chapter 8 · source p. 61

Chapter 6: Traffic Laws

This chapter’s sections include:

  • TRAFFIC LAWS
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Chapter 9 · source p. 71

Chapter 7: Adjust to Driving Conditions

This chapter’s sections include:

  • ADJUST TO DRIVING CONDITIONS
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Chapter 10 · source p. 78

Chapter 8: Driving the Freeways

This chapter’s sections include:

  • DRIVING THE FREEWAYS
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Chapter 11 · source p. 81

Chapter 9: Your Vehicle

This chapter’s sections include:

  • YOUR VEHICLE www.ParentingTeenDrivers.com
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Chapter 12 · source p. 84

Parent Teen Driving Agreement

This chapter’s sections include:

  • KEY POINTS!
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Chapter 13 · source p. 86

GDL Summary

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Attention 15, 16 & 17 Year Old Drivers!!
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Chapter 14 · source p. 87

Contact Information

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Visit Our Website At
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Chapter 15 · source p. 91

Online Services

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Plan Your Visit
  • My Card
  • Account Management
  • Commercial Drivers
  • Suspended License Help
  • Driver Records and Accidents to get STARted today!
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Turn the reading into a study routine

The Alabama course groups the source material into 9 units. Each lesson includes handbook page references, examples, and a checkpoint in the study app.

Unit 1 · 7 lessons

Your License

Who needs a license, documents, tests, GDL, classes and renewal

  1. Who needs an Alabama license
  2. Who can't be licensed & proving who you are
  3. The Learner License
  4. Vision, knowledge and road tests
  5. GDL rules for teen drivers
  6. Renewal, duplicates, changes and ID cards
  7. License classes, motorcycles and vessels

Unit 2 · 3 lessons

You May Lose Your License

Fees, cancellation, revocation, suspension and the point system

  1. Reinstatement fees, cancellation and revocation
  2. Grounds for suspension
  3. The Alabama point system

Unit 3 · 7 lessons

The Driving Task

Habits, turns, sharing the road, parking and restraints

  1. Good habits and rules for turns
  2. Turn paths, three-point turns and curves
  3. Sharing the road with bicycles
  4. Sharing the road with motorcycles
  5. Sharing the road with trucks and buses
  6. Parking rules
  7. Seat belts and child restraints

Unit 4 · 8 lessons

The Driver

Attitude, phones, alcohol, drugs, distances, crashes and railroads

  1. Attitude, concentration and fatigue
  2. Phones, texting and the Hands-Free Law
  3. Alcohol and BAC limits
  4. DUI penalties and implied consent
  5. Drugs and driving
  6. Following distance and stopping distance
  7. If you have a crash
  8. Railroad crossings

Unit 5 · 8 lessons

Signs, Signals & Road Markings

Shapes, colors, regulatory and warning signs, lines, lights and roundabouts

  1. Sign shapes, colors and guide signs
  2. Regulatory signs: stop, yield and do-not signs
  3. Regulatory signs: speed, lanes and turns
  4. Warning signs: road shape and conditions
  5. Warning signs: traffic, crossings and work zones
  6. Pavement markings
  7. Traffic signals and lane-use lights
  8. Driving through roundabouts

Unit 6 · 8 lessons

Traffic Laws

Speed, stopping, school buses, right of way, passing, stops and more

  1. Speed limits
  2. When you must stop
  3. School buses
  4. Right of way and pedestrians
  5. Passing safely
  6. Traffic stops and required documents
  7. Backing, lane changes, hand signals and loads
  8. Insurance, window tint, Move-Over and emergency vehicles

Unit 7 · 6 lessons

Adjust to Driving Conditions

Night, winter, skids, hydroplaning, fog and emergencies

  1. Night driving
  2. Winter and slippery roads
  3. Skids and hydroplaning
  4. Vehicle failures
  5. Road emergencies: shoulders, oncoming cars, water and fire
  6. Fog, hills and carbon monoxide

Unit 8 · 2 lessons

Driving the Freeways

Entering, interchanges, leaving and breakdowns

  1. Entering the freeway and interchanges
  2. Leaving the freeway and freeway emergencies

Unit 9 · 2 lessons

Your Vehicle

Required equipment, tires, maintenance and trip planning

  1. Required equipment
  2. Tires, maintenance and trip planning