If your truck is transporting cargo, you must check the securement of the cargo within the first ______ of the trip.
- 80 km ✓
- 120 km
- 320 km
- 240 km
Answer: A. 80 km
You must re-check the cargo securement no more than 80 km from the point where the cargo was loaded.
Why this is the answer
The handbook says the load has to be inspected before you drive, and then re-checked not more than 80 km from where it was loaded. That first short interval is the one being asked about here. Longer intervals, such as hours of driving, kilometres driven or a change of duty status, apply to the re-inspections that come after this initial check, not to the first one.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. 120 km — The handbook never gives 120 km as a cargo check interval, so there is nothing to support this figure.
- C. 320 km — 320 km does not appear anywhere in the cargo securement rules, which set the first check much closer to the loading point.
- D. 240 km — 240 km is the distance that can trigger a later re-inspection, not the distance for the first check after loading.
Remember it
Picture the load settling in the first stretch of road: get out and check it well before you have gone far, then keep re-checking as the trip goes on.