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DMV Locations
DMV services are available at the following locations. Offices listed under DMV Field
Locations are State of Alaska DMV offices. Offices listed under Commission Agent
Locations are offices operated by local governments or private companies who contract
with the State to provide services.
DMV FIELD LOCATIONS
CITY ADDRESS TELEPHONE
Anchorage
Main Office
Bethel
Delta Junction
Eagle River
Haines
Homer
Juneau
Ketchikan
Kodiak
Nome
Palmer
Sitka
Soldotna
Tok
1300 West Benson Boulevard
300 State Highway (City Hall)
Mile 1420 Alaska Highway
11723 Old Glenn Highway #113
259 Main Street (Gateway Building)
3798 Lake Street
2760 Sherwood Lane #B
415 Main Street, Suite 103
2921 Mill Bay Road #B
103 Front Street #265
515 E Dahlia Ave #230
901 Halibut Point Road #A
43335 Kalifornsky Beach Road #9
Mile 1314 Alaska Highway
269-5551
543-2771
895-4424
269-5551
766-2553
235-7341
465-4361
225-4116
486-4612
443-2350
269-5551
747-3253
262-4681
883-4481
Valdez 217 Meals Avenue (State Building) 835-2443
COMMISSION AGENT LOCATIONS
CITY ADDRESS TELEPHONE
Anderson 260 West 1st (City Hall) 582-2501
Barrow 2022 Ahkovak Street (City Hall) 852-5211
Craig 506 2nd Street 826-3959
Cordova 602 Railroad Avenue, Public Safety Bldg 424-6125
Dillingham Alaska Street and D Street 842-5162
Glennallen Interior Services – 187.5 Glenn Highway
(North side behind Wells Fargo Bank)
822-3999
King Salmon Bldg 150 King Salmon Air Force Base 246-4222
Kotzebue 240 5th Ave, 2nd Floor 442-3202
Petersburg
Motor Vehicles 15 North 12th Street #103 772-4264
Seward 410 Adams Street 224-4037
Skagway First and State Street 983-2232
Talkeetna Right next to MVFCU on Talkeetna Spur Rd 733-2266
Unalaska 29 Public Safety Way 581-2833
Wrangell 431 Zimovia Highway 874-3304
Yakutat 609 Forest Highway #10 784-3206
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DMV Contacts
Headquarters
1300 West Benson Boulevard, Suite 900 • Anchorage, AK 99503-3696
269-5559
🖷 269-5081
Juneau Driver Services
Driver License Extensions • Reinstatement Information • Temporary Driver License•
Limited Licenses
DOA.DMV.JDS@alaska.gov
PO Box 110221 • Juneau, AK 99811-0221
465-4361
🖷 465-5509
Anchorage Driver Services
Defensive Driving Courses • Administrative Hearings • Point System • Criminal
Judgements • CDL Information • Medical Card Questions
DOA.DMV.ADS@alaska.gov
1300 West Benson Boulevard, Suite 100 • Anchorage, AK 99503-3689
269-3770
🖷 269-3774
WEBSITE – Alaska.gov/dmv
• Information
• Forms
• Driver Manuals
• Procedures
• Online Services
o Registration Renewal – Boats, Vehicles, Trailers, ATV’s, Snowmachines
o Address Change – Vehicles
o Schedule a Road Test - DMVROAD@alaska.gov
o Order Personalized Plates
o Renewal of Noncommercial Driver Licenses and ID’s.
o Report a Vehicle Sale
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Schedule your road test online:
alaska.gov/dmv
DMV STAR (Skill Test Appointment & Reporting) allows you to:
✓ Select a Test Type. (i.e., Standard License, Motorcycle, Commercial Driver License)
✓ Select a DMV Location. (i.e. Anchorage, Bethel, Delta Junction, etc.)
✓ Schedule your appointment on the calendar (test can be scheduled 24 hours prior to the test
and up to 60 days in advance.)
✓ Complete your applicant information.
✓ Pay with a credit card and print your receipt.
✓ Receive a confirmation email with road test instructions and location directions.
✓ Receive a reminder email 3 days before your appointment.
✓ Reschedule your test up to 24 hours before the test.
✓ Cancel your test (sorry – no refunds for cancelled tests).
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Human trafficking is modern-day slavery. Traffickers use force, fraud and coercion to control their
victims.
Any minor engaged in commercial sex is a victim of human trafficking. Trafficking can occur in many
locations, including truck stops, restaurants, rest areas, brothels, strip clubs, private homes,
etc. Truckers
are the eyes and the ears of our nation’s highways. If you see a minor working any of those areas
or suspect
pimp control, call the National Hotline and report your tip:
1-888-3737-888 (US)
1-800-222-TIPS (Canada)
For law enforcement to open an investigation on your tip, they need “actionable information.”
Specific tips
helpful when reporting to the hotline would include:
◾ Descriptions of cars (make, model, color, license plate number, etc.) and people (height,
weight,
hair color, eye color, age, etc.)
◾ Take a picture if you can.
◾ Specific times and dates (When did you see the event in question take place? What day was
it?)
◾ Addresses and locations where suspicious activity took place
Trafficking Red Flags to Look for:
◾ Lack of knowledge of their community or whereabouts
◾ Not in control of own identification documents (ID/passport)
◾ Restricted or controlled communication--not allowed to speak for self
◾ Demeanor: fear, anxiety, depression, submissive, tense, nervous
Questions to Ask:
◾ Are you being paid?
◾ Are you being watched or followed?
◾ Are you free to leave? Come and go as you please?
◾ Are you physically or sexually abused? Are you or your family threatened? What is the nature of
the
threats?
Report by Email: Report@PolarisProject.org
Warning: Please do not approach traffickers. Call the hotline, and they will call the FBI and local
police to
deal with them and rescue the victims. Approaching traffickers is not only dangerous for you and
their
victims but could lead to problems in the eventual prosecution of traffickers. Go to
www.truckersagainsttrafficking.org for more information.
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In January 2015, an RV pulled into a truck stop in Virginia. Observant professional truck driver
Kevin Kimmel recognized
suspicious activity around that RV, which had pulled back by the truck line, and decided something
was off. Instead of turning a
blind eye, he made a call that brought law enforcement out to the scene within a few minutes. After
interviewing the occupants
of the vehicle, they discovered that a young woman, 20 years old, had been kidnapped from Iowa two
weeks prior. She had
been beaten, raped, her whole body burned by instruments heated on the RV stove, branded and
starved. She was being sold by
her traffickers, Laura Sorenson and Aldair Hodza, through sex ads on Craigslist, where men were
purchasing her and then arriving
at the RV to rape her. She was dying from malnutrition and the torture she was subjected to … had
the call not been made that
brought law enforcement out to that truck stop, doctors said she would have died within the next
few days. Now a recovering
survivor, this young woman calls Kimmel her guardian angel. He calls himself a Trucker Against
Trafficking.
Truckers Against Trafficking is a non-profit organization that has been working with the trucking
industry since 2009 to provide
the needed training and tools to enable members of the industry to both recognize human trafficking
when they see it
happening and to know what actions to take to enable law enforcement to effectively fight this
crime. Through this training and
these tools, truckers are becoming Everyday Heroes like Kevin Kimmel, who was also named TAT’s 2015
Harriet Tubman Award
winner.
One of the tools TAT provides is a wallet card with red flags
to look for, questions to ask if you suspect someone is a
victim and actionable information to report. This wallet card
is available by App, from the appropriate App Store, on all
smart phones, whether Android, iPhone or Windows format,
as well as by emailing tat.truckers@gmail.com, for a version
to carry in your wallet.
Additionally, TAT provides a powerful, 26-minute training
video on its website (www.truckersagainsttrafficking.org),
which, when watched along with taking and passing a short test, certifies drivers as TAT-Trained, a
designation which can go on
your resume. Because professional drivers often find themselves in locations frequented and
exploited by human traffickers,
they are in a unique position to recognize the signs of human trafficking and to make the call that
can lead to victim recovery and
perpetrator arrests. Get your wallet card today. Be an Everyday Hero! Make the call
(1-888-3737-888); save lives!
Table of Contents
Introduction 1-1
Driving Safely 2-1
Transporting Cargo Safely 3-1
Transporting Passengers Safely 4-1
Air Brakes 5-1
Combination Vehicles 6-1
Doubles and Triples 7-1
Tank Vehicles 8-1
Hazardous Materials 9-1
School Bus 10-1
Vehicle Vehicle Inspection 11-1
Basic Vehicle Control Skills Test 12-1
On-Road Driving 13-1
Commercial Driver’s License Manual – 2005 CDL Testing System
Section 1
INTRODUCTION
This Section Covers
• Commercial Driver License Tests
• Medical Requirements
• Driver Disqualifications
• Other Safety Rules
• International Registration Program
There is a federal requirement that each state have
minimum standards for the licensing of commercial
drivers.
This manual provides driver license testing
information for drivers who wish to have a
commercial driver license (CDL). This manual does
NOT provide information on all the federal and state
requirements needed before you can drive a
commercial motor vehicle (CMV). You may have to
contact your state driver licensing authority for
additional information.
You must have a CDL to operate:
Any single vehicle with a gross vehicle weight
rating (GVWR) of 26,001 pounds or more.
A combination vehicle with a gross combination
weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds,
provided the GVWR of the vehicle(s) being towed is
in excess of 10,000 pounds.
A vehicle designed to transport 16 or more
passengers (including the driver).
Any size vehicle which requires hazardous material
placards or is carrying material listed as a select
agent or toxin in 42 CFR part 73. Federal
regulations through the Department of Homeland
Security require a background check and
fingerprinting for the Hazardous Materials
endorsement. Contact your local department of
driver licensing for more information.
(Your state may have additional definitions of
CMVs.)
CDL Classifications
The CDL vehicle classification included in the
federal standard, together with the type of cargo to
be transported, determine what type of CDL license
and endorsement an applicant must apply for.
There are three basic vehicle classes or groups:
Class A Combination Vehicles. Any combination
of vehicles with gross combination weight rating
(GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds falls in Group A
provided the GVWR of the vehicle(s) being towed is
more than 10,000 pounds. Most Class A vehicles
are trucks such as truck-tractor/semi-trailer or truck
and trailer combinations. However, tractor-trailer
buses may be found in a few communities. Driving a
Class A vehicle requires considerably more skill and
knowledge than driving vehicles in Classes B and C.
Since these skills include those required to drive a B
and C vehicle, a driver who has a Class A license
also may drive vehicles in Classes B and C.
Class B Heavy Straight Vehicles. Any single
vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds falls
in Group B, or any such vehicle towing another
vehicle not in excess of 10,000 pounds GVWR.
Class B includes straight trucks and large buses,
including articulated buses. Safely driving these
heavy vehicles requires considerably more
knowledge and skill than driving the small trucks and
buses found in Class C. Since they include the skills
required to drive Class C vehicles, drivers who have
qualified for a Class B license may also drive vehicles
in Class C.
Class C Small Vehicles. Any single vehicle with a
GVWR less than 26,001 pounds falls in Group C, or
any such vehicle towing another vehicle not in
excess of 10,000 pounds GVWR. However, vehicles
of this size are included in the CDL program only if
they are: 1) Designed to carry 16 or more passengers
including the driver, or (2) Used to transport
hazardous materials in quantities requiring
placarding under the Hazardous Materials
Regulations (49 CFR Part 172, Subpart F) or is
carrying material listed as a select agent or toxin in
42 CFR part 73.
There are a great variety of vehicles in Class C.
Some rather large Class C vehicles may require
more skill and knowledge to operate than do the
smaller ones. However, the licensing category is
based principally on the type of cargo carried.
Because of the seriousness of an accident involving
hazardous material or human passengers, the safe
operation of even the smaller vehicles in Class C
requires special knowledge and the drivers of these
vehicles must have a CDL.
STATE OPTIONS: Some states may include more
drivers and vehicles in their CDL programs. For
example, in some states, a CDL may be required for
buses designed to carry fewer than 16 passengers.
Going beyond the federal standard is acceptable
and the state will need to decide which battery of
tests applies to these drivers, or develop a new
battery.
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