You are stopped behind a truck on an upgrade in Texas. According to the manual, what should you do?
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A.
Leave space in case the truck drifts back when it starts moving. Correct
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B.
Move up close to the truck's bumper to save room behind you.
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C.
Turn on your hazard flashers to warn the truck driver.
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D.
Stay directly behind so the truck driver sees you in the mirror.
The answer is "Leave space in case the truck drifts back when it starts moving."
A truck may drift backward when it starts moving on an upgrade, so the space you leave is the buffer that keeps its rear off your hood. Drivers who pick Option B are pulling up close the way they would at a flat-pavement red light, applying a habit the upgrade rule specifically warns against.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. Move up close to the truck's bumper to save room behind you.
Closing the gap removes the buffer the upgrade rule specifically asks you to keep. This answer applies the flat-pavement stopping habit of pulling up close to the vehicle ahead, exactly the position the upgrade rule warns against.
C. Turn on your hazard flashers to warn the truck driver.
Flashers do not create the physical buffer the manual asks for on an upgrade. This answer substitutes a warning signal for the physical gap the rule is about, borrowing from generic emergency-driving guidance.
D. Stay directly behind so the truck driver sees you in the mirror.
The manual asks you to keep to the left in your lane, not directly behind, so the driver can see you're stopped there. This answer carries over the ordinary centered-in-lane driving position, missing the manual's separate instruction to sit left so the driver can spot you past the truck's frame.
This question tests your knowledge of Sharing the Road in Texas. Source: Texas Driver Manual, "Following a Truck," p.51..
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