Nevada Driver's Handbook

When you prepare to obtain your Nevada driver license from the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Nevada Driver's Handbook may temporarily become your favorite reading. Also available in Spanish, it's packed with all the information you need to know to pass the written licensing tests. The manuals are available in PDF format or as a printed publication at your local DMV office.

The following is a breakdown of the main sections and what you'll find inside the Nevada Driver's Handbook:

• Applying for your license: documents, testing procedures, license classifications, renewals, change of address, ID cards, and fees.

• The importance of buckling up and child safety seat laws.

• Safe driving: rules of the road, traffic signals, road markings, right-of-way, highway driving, defensive driving, lane changes, passing, and parking.

• Abnormal driving conditions: night driving, bad weather, skidding, vehicle emergencies, floods, and highway construction.

• Other vehicles: how to drive on the road with large trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, school buses, and pedestrians.

• Insurance requirements.

• Driving record and the demerit point system.

• Driving under the influence: rules and penalties for DUI.

• Suspensions and revocations: what causes it, how to fix it.

• Vehicle registration requirements.

Extra Help for Beginning Drivers

If you're a teenager just learning to drive, you might also want to check out the Beginning Driver Training Guide. It's a resource especially for you and your parent or guardian that serves as a training outline once you've already received your instruction permit.

Rather than being a replacement for the Nevada Driver's Handbook, the Beginning Driver Training Guide is meant to be a more basic companion volume that starts with the very essentials and works its way up to more advanced skills. It contains detailed information about each element of driving, including starting the engine, turning, backing up, driving in traffic, intersections, and night driving. It also includes a training-hours log that you'll need to fill out with your parent when you're ready to go for your driving test.

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