Showing your license — Texas Permit Test
Showing your license on the Texas permit test — 3 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.
The rules
A licensed driver must always carry the license when driving and show it on request to any peace officer, sheriff, constable, judge, justice of the peace, or state trooper.
The card at home proves nothing at the roadside. Texas names who may ask so there is no argument about it.
always carry your license with you when driving and upon request, show it to: 1. Any peace officer, sheriff, constable, judge, justice of the peace, or state trooper
A driver must show their license to anyone they are involved in a crash with.
The other driver needs to know who they have just hit. Waiting for an officer to arrive is not part of the rule.
carry your license with you when driving and upon request, show it to: 1. Any peace officer, sheriff, constable, judge, justice of the peace, or state trooper 2. Anyone with whom you are involved in a crash
A driver is required by law to display a driver license when an officer requests it during a traffic stop.
You may say nothing else during a stop. The license is the one thing the law makes you hand over.
display a driver license when requested by an officer
On the test
To whom must a Texas driver show their license on request?
Any peace officer, sheriff, constable, judge or state trooper. The card at home proves nothing at the roadside. Texas names who may ask so there is no argument about it. Texas Driver Handbook, p.9: “always carry your license with you when driving and upon request, show it to: 1. Any peace officer, sheriff, constable, judge, justice of the peace, or state trooper”
How this works
Most practice tests hand you a bank of questions and leave the manual somewhere else. This one puts them together.
You read one law and the reason behind it, then answer a question on that law while it is still fresh. Get it right and you move on; get it wrong and you have found the gap while it is cheap to fix, not on the morning of the exam.
Learning one rule at a time, and proving it immediately, is what turns a manual you skimmed into something you actually know — and it makes studying feel like getting somewhere rather than like waiting to find out.
What it costs
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- Paying opens the rest of the cards, unlimited full-length practice tests, and retests built from exactly the questions you got wrong.
- Every level up to Prepared — 3 tests passed in a row.
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Where these come from
Every rule here is checked against Texas Driver Handbook, published by the Texas Department of Public Safety, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-09-16.
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/TX.pdf (Texas Driver Handbook, form DL-7, Revised January 2026, Texas Department of Public Safety, retrieved 2026-09-14 from dps.texas.gov)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/TX.pages.txt (plain pdftotext over that PDF; sha256 pinned in SOURCES.json)
- src/assets/drivers-manuals/SOURCES.json (sha256, folio offset 6, nonLawPages, the four extraction traps and the extraction flag, each with its measured basis)
- docs/plans/texas-exam-shape.md (the search that established that no official source states the question count, and the two decoys it disposes of)