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Wyoming driver handbook guide

Wyoming driver handbook guide.

Use this guide to navigate the 28 chapters in the handbook edition behind Roadwise’s Wyoming course. Read the source, look up a rule in the study app, or work through 54 companion lessons.

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Handbook chapters
28
Source PDF pages
98
Companion lessons
54
Licensing agency
WYDOT

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 Source p. 2
  2. Driver Licensing Source p. 5
  3. Getting Your License Source p. 7
  4. License Services Source p. 10
  5. Additional Driver and Motoring Services Source p. 15
  6. Losing the Privilege to Drive Source p. 19
  7. Safety Laws and Issues Source p. 29
  8. How Alcohol and Drugs Affect You Source p. 33
  9. Speed Source p. 41
  10. Right of Way Source p. 42
  11. Roundabouts Source p. 48
  12. Required Stops Source p. 50
  13. Changing Lanes and Turning Source p. 51
  14. Passing Source p. 54
  15. Parking Source p. 58
  16. Interstate Driving Source p. 60
  17. Traffic Signs, Signals and Road Markings Source p. 62
  18. Railroad Crossings Source p. 66
  19. Traffic Crashes Source p. 67
  20. Sharing the Road Safely Source p. 68
  21. Safe Driving Tips (IPDE) Source p. 73
  22. Special Driving Conditions Source p. 77
  23. Emergency Situations Source p. 80
  24. Hazardous Situations Source p. 84
  25. Cell Phones Source p. 88
  26. County Registration and Titling Locations Source p. 90
  27. Definitions Source p. 91
  28. Traffic Signs and Signals Source p. 95

What you will find in each chapter

Chapter 1 · source p. 2

Welcome

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Above all else, drive safely your license and drive safely
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Chapter 2 · source p. 5

Driver Licensing

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Requirements to drive driver license
  • Class C
  • Class M
  • Restriction codes
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Chapter 3 · source p. 7

Getting Your License

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Getting your license
  • Age requirements
  • Acceptable legal identification
  • Acceptable Proof of Residency
  • Vision screening
  • System
  • Skills test
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Chapter 4 · source p. 10

License Services

This chapter’s sections include:

  • First Wyoming licenses
  • Instruction permits
  • Renewals
  • Renewals by mail
  • Renewals of expired licenses
  • At age 17
  • Non-commercial licenses
  • Commercial licenses
  • Other fees aliveat25.us
  • At 16 and one-half For extreme inconvenience
  • Intermediate licenses
  • An exception form allows driving between
  • Intermediate license suspension
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Chapter 5 · source p. 15

Additional Driver and Motoring Services

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Intermediate license expiration
  • Licenses for disabled drivers
  • Wyoming Amber Alert System
  • Accessing your driving record and Tissue Donor Registry
  • Disabled placards
  • Medical Alert
  • Wildlife Conservation to drive
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Chapter 6 · source p. 19

Losing the Privilege to Drive

This chapter’s sections include:

  • License suspensions, cancellations and revocations
  • Driving While Under the Influence
  • 3rd or subsequent offense (within 10 years)
  • Youthful Driver Suspension
  • Ignition Interlock Requirement
  • Reckless Driving Suspension
  • Transporting Liquor to a Minor Suspension
  • Compact Suspension
  • Moving Violation Suspension
  • Compulsory Insurance Suspension
  • Suspension and/or Cancellation
  • Child Support Suspension
  • Suspension
  • Intermediate License Suspension
  • Revocation or Cancellation
  • Uninsured Accident Suspension and/or contested case hearings
  • License reinstatement fee
  • Revocation
  • Start of suspension/revocation
  • Ignition Interlock Devices
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Chapter 7 · source p. 29

Safety Laws and Issues

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Safety laws/issues
  • Safety belt law
  • Wyoming Child Restraint Guide
  • Yes The Driver License Compact
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Chapter 8 · source p. 33

How Alcohol and Drugs Affect You

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Alcohol the major cause of crashes
  • Effects of the amount of alcohol
  • Effects of time
  • Levels.
  • Effects of body weight
  • Drunkenness is not always apparent
  • Effects on decision-making
  • Other factors
  • Drinking and driving — Is it worth it?
  • It’s your decision
  • Other drugs stopped by law enforcement
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Chapter 9 · source p. 41

Speed

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Adjust speed for road conditions On curves
  • At intersections On slippery roads
  • Adjust speed for traffic conditions
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Chapter 10 · source p. 42

Right of Way

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Darkness
  • Rain, fog or snow
  • Right of way
  • Intersections with no signs or signals
  • Intersections with “YIELD” signs
  • Black ice is treacherous out there!
  • Start & drive slowly, steadily
  • Be prepared to stop
  • If you begin to skid In a ground blizzard
  • If one person skids, others may
  • Intersections with four-way stops
  • At four-way stops
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Chapter 11 · source p. 48

Roundabouts

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Right-of-way involving emergency vehicles
  • Right of way to pedestrians
  • Braking/stopping
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Chapter 12 · source p. 50

Required Stops

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Required stops
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Chapter 13 · source p. 51

Changing Lanes and Turning

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Proper lane changing rules
  • Turn signaling
  • Proper turning rules
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Chapter 14 · source p. 54

Passing

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Backing
  • Decide if it is safe to pass
  • How to pass
  • Passing on the right
  • Hill
  • Passing bicyclists
  • Passing parked cars
  • Passing heavy vehicles
  • Passing emergency vehicles
  • Blind spots
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Chapter 15 · source p. 58

Parking

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Parking restrictions
  • Parking on hills
  • Parking between cars
  • Emergency parking
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Chapter 16 · source p. 60

Interstate Driving

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Leaving a parking space
  • Entering the Interstate
  • Proper driving techniques on Interstates
  • Leaving the Interstate
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Chapter 17 · source p. 62

Traffic Signs, Signals and Road Markings

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Emergency stopping on the Interstate and road markings
  • Only
  • Overhead signs
  • Use of lanes
  • Pavement markings (Yellow shown as red)
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Chapter 18 · source p. 66

Railroad Crossings

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Railroad crossings
  • Is Up To You!
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Chapter 19 · source p. 67

Traffic Crashes

This chapter’s sections include:

  • If you’re involved in a crash
  • Damaging unattended vehicles
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Chapter 20 · source p. 68

Sharing the Road Safely

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Sharing the road
  • Your vehicle and its equipment
  • Tire safety
  • Motorcycles
  • Pedestrians
  • Bicycles
  • Farm and slow-moving vehicles
  • Heavy vehicles (trucks)
  • Move Over Law
  • Share with animals and hills limit sight distance
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Chapter 21 · source p. 73

Safe Driving Tips (IPDE)

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Safe driving tips (IPDE)
  • Scan ahead
  • Scan the roadsides
  • Communicate
  • Isolate your vehicle in traffic
  • Vehicle Length.
  • Tailgaters
  • Space to the sides
  • Separate risks
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Chapter 22 · source p. 77

Special Driving Conditions

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Compromise space
  • Reduced light
  • Fog
  • Slippery surfaces
  • Rain
  • Snow or ice
  • Wind
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Chapter 23 · source p. 80

Emergency Situations

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Blizzards
  • When a crash seems imminent
  • Slow quickly to minimize impact
  • Turn away quickly
  • An alternative: speeding up
  • Gas pedal sticks
  • Skids
  • Brake failure
  • Blowout
  • Oncoming car in your lane steering-lock devices The Transmission Park System
  • The Two-Hand Button System The Lever System The One-Hand Button System
  • The Push-In System The Turn and Remove System
  • Wheels off the road
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Chapter 24 · source p. 84

Hazardous Situations

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Wet brakes
  • Breakdowns
  • Carbon monoxide intersections)
  • Road construction
  • Pedestrians
  • Animals
  • Health
  • Emotions
  • Vision
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Chapter 25 · source p. 88

Cell Phones

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Hearing
  • Cell phones
  • Illness
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Chapter 26 · source p. 90

County Registration and Titling Locations

This chapter’s sections include:

  • County registration and titling locations
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Chapter 27 · source p. 91

Definitions

Read this chapter in the study app to see its complete text, source page references, and any accompanying illustrations.

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Chapter 28 · source p. 95

Traffic Signs and Signals

This chapter’s sections include:

  • Traffic signs
  • Regulatory signs
  • Octagon (eight sides)
  • Triangle pointing down
  • Warning signs
  • Rectangles
  • Diamond
  • Pentagon
  • Pennant
  • Round
  • Construction
  • Emergency Notification Sign
  • Guide signs
  • Red light
  • Amber light
  • Green light
  • Flashing red light
  • Flashing amber light
  • Turn arrows
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Turn the reading into a study routine

The Wyoming course groups the source material into 11 units. Each lesson includes handbook page references, examples, and a checkpoint in the study app.

Unit 1 · 4 lessons

Your License

Who can drive, license classes, ID and tests

  1. Who needs a Wyoming license (and who can't get one)
  2. License classes and restriction codes
  3. Age, ID and proof of residency
  4. Vision, written and skills tests

Unit 2 · 6 lessons

License Services & GDL

Permits, fees, renewals, GDL and driver services

  1. First licenses, permits and fees
  2. Renewals
  3. Full privileges at 17 or 16½
  4. Restricted license for extreme inconvenience
  5. The intermediate license
  6. Driving records, placards and other services

Unit 3 · 5 lessons

Losing the Privilege to Drive

DWUI, suspensions, revocation and reinstatement

  1. Administrative Per Se and DWUI penalties
  2. Under-21 drinking and ignition interlock
  3. Reckless driving, compact and moving-violation suspensions
  4. Insurance, ID misuse and other suspensions
  5. Revocation, SR-22 and reinstatement

Unit 4 · 6 lessons

Seat Belts, Alcohol & Drugs

Seat belts, child seats, alcohol, drugs and traffic stops

  1. The seat belt law
  2. Child restraints and booster seats
  3. Alcohol and your BAC
  4. How alcohol impairs your driving
  5. Implied consent and other drugs
  6. When you're stopped by police

Unit 5 · 5 lessons

Speed & Right-of-Way

Speed limits, right-of-way and required stops

  1. Speed limits and adjusting your speed
  2. Right-of-way at intersections
  3. Four-way stops and roundabouts
  4. Emergency vehicles and pedestrians
  5. Stopping distances and required stops

Unit 6 · 4 lessons

Lanes, Turning, Passing & Parking

Lane changes, turns, passing and parking

  1. Lane changes, signals, turns and backing
  2. When and how to pass
  3. Passing bicycles, parked cars and trucks
  4. Parking rules

Unit 7 · 2 lessons

Interstate Driving

Merging, cruising, exiting and breakdowns

  1. Entering and driving the Interstate
  2. Leaving the Interstate and emergency stops

Unit 8 · 4 lessons

Signs, Signals & Road Markings

Sign shapes, signals, lane lines and railroad crossings

  1. Sign shapes and colors
  2. Traffic signals and turn arrows
  3. Lane use and pavement markings
  4. Railroad crossings

Unit 9 · 5 lessons

Crashes & Emergencies

After a crash, skids, blowouts and breakdowns

  1. What to do after a crash
  2. When a crash seems unavoidable
  3. Skids, brake failure and blowouts
  4. Oncoming cars, steering locks and running off the road
  5. Breakdowns and carbon monoxide

Unit 10 · 6 lessons

Sharing the Road

Equipment, motorcycles, bikes, trucks, wildlife and ATVs

  1. Vehicle equipment and tire safety
  2. Sharing the road with motorcycles
  3. Pedestrians and bicycles
  4. Trucks, slow vehicles, work zones and Move Over
  5. Wildlife and animals on the road
  6. Mopeds, ATVs and other vehicle types

Unit 11 · 7 lessons

Defensive Driving & Conditions

IPDE, space cushion, night, weather and fitness to drive

  1. IPDE: identify, predict, decide, execute
  2. Space cushion and following distance
  3. Driving at night
  4. Fog, rain, snow, wind and blizzards
  5. Wyoming winter roads
  6. Cell phones and distracted driving
  7. Fitness to drive: health, emotions, vision and hearing