Wyoming DMV Cheat Sheet
A condensed study guide for the WYDOT written knowledge test — test logistics, plus the Wyoming-specific rules most likely to differ from what you already know. This isn't a substitute for the official Wyoming driver's manual, or for practicing the real questions. Looking for the core rules and signs that apply everywhere, not just Wyoming? Check the general driving theory cheat sheet instead.
25Questions
80%To Pass
$40.00 for an original Wyoming Driver License, plus a $5.00 technology fee on every license class.Fee
2Attempts
- Test length varies: The manual doesn't print an exact written-test question count -- this site uses 25 questions at 80% to pass, matching Wyoming's published exam format, as its own practice test length.
- Fee: An Instruction Permit is also $40.00; an Intermediate License is $30.00; a Restricted License or Restricted Instruction Permit is $20.00; renewals are $30.00.
- Documents required:
- State-certified birth certificate, valid U.S. passport, or immigration documents
- Social Security card, W-2 form, or a financial/banking statement showing the SSN
- Two proof-of-residency documents showing a residential address (no P.O. Box)
- If you don't pass: Applicants may take the written test twice in one day. A failed skills test requires a 24-hour wait; missing 13 or more questions on the written test requires a 3-day wait.
- Online testing: Wyoming Driver License Practice Tests are available at gowyld.driving-tests.org/wyoming/; oral tests are available in person if requested before testing.
Wyoming-Specific Rules
Minor & Provisional Licensing
- Full privileges at 17 with no prior permit needed, or at 16 and one-half with a current intermediate license at least six months old plus driver education.
- Instruction Permit at 15; supervising driver must be at least eighteen, hold a valid license for the vehicle type, and sit in the front passenger seat.
- Extreme-inconvenience restricted license (ages 14-15, 5+ miles from school/work): valid 5am-8pm within 50 miles, expires 30 days after the 16th birthday.
- The matching restricted instruction permit for that same 14-15 extreme-inconvenience track is valid 60 days.
- Intermediate License at 16: previously held a Restricted Class C license, or held an Instruction Permit plus 50 hours of driving including ten hours at night.
- Intermediate License: max one non-family minor passenger unless an 18+ licensed driver is along; Intermediate motorcycle permit holders can't carry any passenger.
- Intermediate License curfew: 11pm-5am unless a signed exception form (medical, work, school/religious/youth-sports) is presented to police if stopped.
- Intermediate License: suspended 30 days per restriction violation; automatically expires 30 days after the 17th birthday.
- A driver-ed certification card (30 hours classroom + six hours behind-the-wheel) waives the skills test but is only honored for up to two years.
- The written test can be retaken twice the same day; missing 13 or more questions means a three-day wait before retesting.
Licensing Procedure & Documents
- A Driver License Compact member's out-of-state license must be surrendered within one year of establishing Wyoming residency, if kept instead of switching.
- Every applicant is checked through the national Problem Driver Pointer System and other electronic systems before a license is issued.
- Proof of residency needs any two accepted documents showing a residential address -- a P.O. Box doesn't count.
- An address change must be reported to the department in writing within 10 days.
- Renewal window: the 120-day period before expiration for licensees over 21, only 90 days for licensees under 21.
- Mail renewal is limited to once every other renewal period, and only with a clean five-year record and no mail renewal in the past five years.
- Fees: Original License $40, Instruction Permit $40, Intermediate License $30, plus a $5 technology fee on every license class.
Rules of the Road
- Default speed limits: 80/75 mph Interstate, 70 mph secondary highways, 30 mph residential/business, 20 mph school zones.
- Move Over Law: merge a lane away on multi-lane roads; on a 45mph+ two-lane road, slow to 20 mph below the posted limit instead.
- School bus stop: both directions on an undivided highway; only the bus's own side on a divided roadway.
- The statewide cell phone law only bans texting -- handheld and hands-free voice calls stay legal, though some cities add their own local ordinances.
- Child restraint law applies until the child's ninth birthday; violations are a primary offense justifying a stop on their own.
- Child restraint fine: up to $60 first offense (waived with proof of purchase afterward), up to $110 for a second or subsequent offense.
- Approach a blind intersection (view blocked by trees, bushes, or buildings) at no more than 15 mph.
- Mandatory stops include entering a business district from a side road, on top of driveways, alleys, and parking lots.
DUI & Alcohol Laws
- Administrative Per Se Suspension: 90 days for a 0.08%+ BAC test after a DWUI arrest, regardless of whether the court case is dismissed.
- First DWUI: 90-day suspension; a .15% or greater BAC at arrest adds a mandatory six-month ignition interlock requirement.
- Second DWUI (within 10 years): one-year suspension; no limited driving privileges unless the conviction includes alcohol.
- Fourth-or-later alcohol-inclusive DWUI: a lifetime ignition interlock requirement, petitionable for removal five years after conviction.
- Third alcohol-inclusive DWUI: a two-year interlock requirement plus whatever remains of the three-year revocation period.
- Youthful Driver Suspension (under 21, 0.02 percent or more BAC): a 90-day suspension for a first offense, six months for a second within two years.
- Reckless Driving: 90-day suspension first offense, six months for a second within five years.
- Compulsory Insurance Suspension lasts until an SR-22 is filed, with no limited driving privileges available at all.
Vehicle, Insurance & License Actions
- Uninsured-crash reinstatement: a cash deposit covering property damage plus $25,000 per injury, refundable after a year with no judgments filed.
- Reinstatement fee is generally $50, but only $5 for a child support suspension specifically.
- A Contested Case Hearing or Record Review request must be postmarked within 20 days of the suspension notice.
- A probationary license (limited driving privileges during suspension) is capped at one per five-year period.
- An SR-22 filing must keep proof of financial responsibility on file for three years from when it was first required.
- Revocation offenses (third or subsequent DWUI, third or subsequent reckless driving, leaving an injury crash scene, vehicular homicide, driving-related felony) never allow limited driving privileges.
- Wyoming runs no numeric point system at all -- every consequence is a direct, offense-specific suspension or revocation instead.
Rules and fees change — always confirm current details with WYDOT before your exam. Cheat sheet v1.0, last checked 2026-08-07.