You hold a commercial driver license and are driving a commercial motor vehicle in North Carolina. What BAC triggers immediate revocation under the DWI law?
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A.
0.08 percent
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B.
0.04 percent Correct
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C.
0.02 percent
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D.
0.06 percent
The answer is "0.04 percent"
Behind the wheel of a commercial motor vehicle, your immediate-revocation BAC in North Carolina is 0.04 percent, half the 0.08 personal-vehicle figure. Option A is the trap: the 0.08 number sits in the same sentence, and readers who stop before the parenthetical never see it lowered for CDL holders.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. 0.08 percent
0.08 is the personal-vehicle threshold, not the commercial one; a CDL driver hits immediate revocation at 0.04. Grabs the 0.08 figure that opens the sentence and stops reading before the parenthetical drops it to 0.04 for CDL drivers.
C. 0.02 percent
0.02 is not the immediate-revocation BAC set by North Carolina for a commercial motor vehicle; the threshold is 0.04 or more. Halves the 0.04 CDL figure a second time on the guess that any commercial context must be stricter than the number the statute actually names.
D. 0.06 percent
The manual does not use 0.06 as any DWI threshold; the printed CDL figure is 0.04. Splits the difference between the 0.08 personal number and a stricter CDL figure instead of using the 0.04 the manual actually prints.
This question tests your knowledge of DUI & Impaired Driving in North Carolina. Source: North Carolina Driver Handbook, "Chapter 2 - Alcohol and the Law: Driving While Impaired," p.31..
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