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Georgia driver handbook guide

Georgia driver handbook guide.

Use this guide to navigate the 14 chapters in the handbook edition behind Roadwise’s Georgia course. Read the source, look up a rule in the study app, or work through 70 companion lessons.

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Handbook chapters
14
Source PDF pages
52
Companion lessons
70
Licensing agency
DDS

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. Welcome and DDS Mission Source p. 3
  2. Board of Directors' Message Source p. 4
  3. What to Do When Pulled Over by Police Source p. 5
  4. Section 1: General Licensing Information Source p. 6
  5. Section 2: Obtaining a License, Permit or ID Card Source p. 9
  6. Section 3: Testing Information Source p. 13
  7. Section 4: Other Services and Information Source p. 15
  8. Section 5: Traffic Laws Source p. 18
  9. Section 6: Teen Driving Laws Source p. 27
  10. Section 7: Signs, Signals and Markings Source p. 29
  11. Section 8: Safety Guidelines Source p. 39
  12. Section 9: Sharing the Road Source p. 43
  13. Section 10: Losing Your Driving Privileges Source p. 47
  14. Section 11: Crashes Source p. 51

What you will find in each chapter

Chapter 1 · source p. 3

Welcome and DDS Mission

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Our Mission
  • Title VI Policy Statement dds.georgia.gov and like DDS on Facebook!
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Chapter 2 · source p. 4

Board of Directors' Message

This chapter’s sections include:

  • -fu1m=0 passengers."
  • Board Of Directors' Message
  • Board of Directors
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Chapter 3 · source p. 5

What to Do When Pulled Over by Police

This chapter’s sections include:

  • [lli
  • ®Iacp
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Chapter 4 · source p. 6

Section 1: General Licensing Information

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Georgia Driver's Ucense automobile or motorcycle
  • Identification Cards
  • Vision Requirements
  • --sECTION f: GENERAi. UCENSING INFORMATION
  • Classes of Licenses
  • Classes
  • Purpose
  • Fees/Forms of Payment
  • Visa
  • License Restrictions
  • Identification Card Fees
  • DDS License Restriction Codes
  • Your License
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Chapter 5 · source p. 9

Section 2: Obtaining a License, Permit or ID Card

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Class C lnst111ctional Permit (CP)
  • Class D Provisional License
  • Class C License
  • Peachpass
  • State ID Card
  • Other License Types and their Spouses
  • National Guard License
  • New Georgia Residents
  • ALL DMVs are not Alike!!!
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Chapter 6 · source p. 13

Section 3: Testing Information

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Knowledge Exam
  • Road Test
  • Road Test For Oass M
  • F Non-Commercial
  • Results of Pass/Fail of the State of Georgia
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Chapter 7 · source p. 15

Section 4: Other Services and Information

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Number Changes
  • Interest in Registering to Vote
  • Replacement
  • Save Time, Go Online-Try DDS Online Services!
  • Section 4: Other Services & Information
  • Address Change
  • Name Change
  • Motor Vehicle Reports (MVR)
  • Selective Service Registration
  • Blindness Donation
  • Organ and Tissue Donation
  • GSFA Donation
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Chapter 8 · source p. 18

Section 5: Traffic Laws

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Laws Governing Right-of-Way
  • Passing The ��Move Over'' Law
  • Why was the "Move Over" Law Passed?
  • Law make a difference?
  • It's the Law!
  • Making Turns Safely
  • Right Turn
  • U-Turns and Partiing
  • Section 5: Traffic Laws -
  • Steps to Parallel Parking
  • :A.li nment The "Slow Poke" Law (House Bill 459)
  • It'S The Law!
  • Backing Up
  • Traveling Speed
  • Railroad Crossings
  • Highway Wortc Zones
  • SECTION 5: n:IAFFIC LAWS -
  • Work Zone Driving Tips
  • Roads Among The Best In The Nation.
  • Other Laws
  • Night Driving
  • Safety Belts
  • Safety Restraints for Children
  • Distracted Driving
  • Following Emergency Vehicles
  • LITTER. b
  • Use While Driving
  • Passing a Postal Carrier or Sanitation Workers
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Chapter 9 · source p. 27

Section 6: Teen Driving Laws

This chapter’s sections include:

  • This Section Covers
  • Responsible Adult Requirements
  • Requirements
  • Class C Instructional Permit (CP)
  • - Sec110N 6: Teen Driving Laws
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Chapter 10 · source p. 29

Section 7: Signs, Signals and Markings

This chapter’s sections include:

  • It's the Law
  • Road Signs
  • Traffic
  • Stop
  • Regulatory Signs
  • Lim T
  • Bicycles
  • Trucks
  • Warning Signs
  • Low
  • Section � Signs, Signals & Markings -
  • ONE Tm OR CALL COULi
  • Guide Signs
  • Exit
  • 5 Miles
  • Service Signs
  • Express Ianes
  • Closed
  • Traffic Signals and Signs
  • Only
  • I Only
  • Walk l Fi i� c,mirq
  • --sECTION � SIGNS, SIGNALS & MARKINGS
  • Pavement Markings
  • Navigating a roundabout ffRE PRESSURE
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Chapter 11 · source p. 39

Section 8: Safety Guidelines

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Entering the Car
  • Steering
  • Fog
  • Hydroplaning
  • Skidding
  • Section 8: Safety Guidelines -
  • Leaving the Roadway
  • Winter Driving
  • Carbon Monoxide
  • Tire Blow-Out
  • Section 8: Safetv Guideunes
  • Steering Locks
  • Following Too Closely
  • Speed and Stopping Distance
  • Oomph
  • Other Highway Emergencies
  • Accelerator Jammed
  • Protecting the Air
  • Brakes Fail
  • Wet Brakes
  • Idling Engines
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Chapter 12 · source p. 43

Section 9: Sharing the Road

This chapter’s sections include:

  • With Pedestrians
  • Sharing the Road With Bicycles
  • "Minimum bicyclists are listed below: . -
  • Sharing The Road With Motorcycles
  • Allow a Full Lane
  • Road Conditions
  • Intersections
  • Following Too Close
  • Passing and Being Passed
  • Partners on the Road
  • Schoorsuses
  • Georgia Fines & Penal.Ties
  • Commercial Motor Vehicles
  • Tips for Trailering
  • Targeting Aggressive Cars & Trucks
  • DONrr GET A cn-ATION
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Chapter 13 · source p. 47

Section 10: Losing Your Driving Privileges

This chapter’s sections include:

  • This Section Covers
  • Types of Withdrawals
  • Reporting Convictions
  • Types of Suspensions
  • Implied Consent
  • SECffON 10: LOSING YOUR DRIVING PRWILEGES --
  • Before Visiting
  • Points before arriving at any of our Customer Service
  • Faster · Secure · Convenient · 24/7 The Points System
  • Safety Responsibility Law
  • Mandatory Revocations
  • Limited Driving Permits
  • Disqualifications
  • SECffON 10: LOSING YOUR DRIVING PRIVILEGES -
  • Other Violations
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Chapter 14 · source p. 51

Section 11: Crashes

This chapter’s sections include:

  • If You Are Involved In A Crash
  • Aiding the Injured
  • Following a Crash
  • Deer-Automobile Crashes
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Turn the reading into a study routine

The Georgia course groups the source material into 12 units. Each lesson includes handbook page references, examples, and a checkpoint in the study app.

Unit 1 · 6 lessons

Your License

Residency, vision, classes, restrictions and Real ID

  1. Who needs a Georgia license
  2. Vision requirements
  3. License classes
  4. Restriction codes and carrying your license
  5. Applying under 18 and turning in old cards
  6. Real ID, fees and replacement cards

Unit 2 · 5 lessons

Getting Licensed

Permits, provisional and full licenses, IDs and new residents

  1. Class C Instructional Permit (CP)
  2. Getting your Class D provisional license
  3. Getting your Class C license
  4. ID cards and special licenses
  5. New Georgia residents

Unit 3 · 6 lessons

Tests, Renewals and Records

Knowledge and road tests, renewals, changes and driving records

  1. The knowledge exam
  2. Road test: booking and your vehicle
  3. Pass, fail and other license tests
  4. Road test skills
  5. Renewing by mail, new numbers and voter registration
  6. Replacements, address and name changes, and driving records

Unit 4 · 7 lessons

Right-of-Way, Passing and Turns

Who goes first, how to pass, turning and emergency vehicles

  1. Right-of-way basics
  2. Turning on red and school bus lights
  3. The Move Over law and passing work vehicles
  4. Passing on two-lane roads
  5. Passing bicycles, motorcycles and stopped cars
  6. Making turns
  7. Basic traffic laws and emergency vehicles

Unit 5 · 5 lessons

Speed, Parking and Railroad Crossings

Speed limits, slow drivers, parking rules and train crossings

  1. Speed limits
  2. Super Speeders, slow drivers and the passing lane
  3. Railroad crossings
  4. Where you can't stop or park
  5. Parallel parking and backing up

Unit 6 · 7 lessons

Work Zones and Other Traffic Laws

Work zones, DUI, dangerous driving, lights, belts and phones

  1. Highway work zones
  2. DUI and BAC limits
  3. Reckless and aggressive driving, and racing
  4. Headlights and night driving
  5. Seat belts, child restraints and littering
  6. Controlled-access roads and other rules
  7. Hands-free law and distracted driving

Unit 7 · 5 lessons

Teen Driving Laws

Graduated licensing, Joshua's Law, Class D limits and teen penalties

  1. Graduated licensing, Joshua's Law and school enrollment
  2. Driver education requirements
  3. Class D provisional license restrictions
  4. Teen suspensions
  5. Responsible adults, revocation and teens moving to Georgia

Unit 8 · 8 lessons

Signs, Signals and Markings

Sign shapes, sign types, signals, pavement markings and roundabouts

  1. Sign shapes and colors
  2. Regulatory signs
  3. Warning signs
  4. Guide, service and construction signs
  5. Traffic signals and lane control
  6. Pedestrian signals and the PHB
  7. Pavement markings
  8. Turn lanes, bike lanes and roundabouts

Unit 9 · 7 lessons

Safety Guidelines

Weather, emergencies, following distance and expressways

  1. Before you drive: tires, getting in and steering
  2. Hydroplaning and skidding
  3. Curves, fog and winter driving
  4. Vehicle emergencies
  5. Following distance and stopping
  6. Expressway driving
  7. HOV and Express lanes, carbon monoxide and clean air

Unit 10 · 5 lessons

Sharing the Road

Pedestrians, bicycles, motorcycles, school buses and trucks

  1. Pedestrians and crosswalks
  2. Sharing the road with bicycles
  3. Sharing the road with motorcycles
  4. Stopping for school buses
  5. Sharing the road with trucks and buses

Unit 11 · 6 lessons

Losing Your Driving Privileges

Suspensions, implied consent, points, limited permits and CDL rules

  1. Suspension, revocation and what triggers them
  2. Implied consent
  3. The points system
  4. Habitual violators and limited permits
  5. Safety Responsibility Law and mandatory revocations
  6. Commercial driving disqualifications

Unit 12 · 3 lessons

Crashes and Traffic Stops

What to do after a crash, deer, and being pulled over

  1. At the scene of a crash
  2. Clearing the road and avoiding deer crashes
  3. When you're pulled over