General license information — Nebraska Permit Test
General license information on the Nebraska permit test — 2 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
No person may hold a permit or license and a State ID Card at the same time.
Two cards for one person make it easy for the spare to be handed to someone else as fake ID.
No person shall hold a permit or license with a State ID Card at the same time.
If a person's driving privileges are revoked or suspended in Nebraska or any other state, a Nebraska license will not be issued.
Without this, a driver banned in one state could move next door and drive the same way again.
If driving privileges are revoked or suspended in Nebraska or any other state or jurisdiction, a Nebraska license will not be issued.
On the test
May a person hold a Nebraska driver license and a State ID Card at the same time?
No, they may hold one or the other. Two cards for one person make it easy for the spare to be handed to someone else as fake ID. Nebraska Driver’s Manual, p.17: “No person shall hold a permit or license with a State ID Card at the same time.”
How this works
Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Nebraska Driver’s Manual, published by the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-04.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/NE.pdf (Nebraska Driver’s Manual, Class O Drivers Manual-English 1-2025, Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles, retrieved 2026-09-14 and re-checked 2026-10-04; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/NE.pages.txt (plain pdftotext through scripts/ne-text.py, the fixture every citation here was cut from and verified against; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/NE-exam.txt (Nebraska DMV, Driver Licensing Examiner manual, https://dmv.nebraska.gov/sites/dmv.nebraska.gov/files/doc/dls/DLE_ENTIRE_MANUAL_11222023.pdf, read 2026-10-04; states both exam figures in Section 3; sha256 pinned under examSource)
- https://dmv.nebraska.gov/manuals (read 2026-10-04; links the manual)