Nebraska Road Signs Cheat Sheet.
The night-before summary, built like the exam.

The numbers to remember

• School Learner's Permit (LPE): apply starting at 14; valid 6 months from issuance.
• Learner's Permit (LPD): issued no earlier than age 15; fee $13.00.
• Provisional Operator's Permit (POP): minimum age 16; fee $20.00; requires 50 supervised hours, including 10 hours at night, certified by a supervisor at least 21 years old.
• Full Class O license: minimum age 17; 5-year fee $29.00.
• There is a separate written test for each license class, all drawn from the Class O Drivers Manual. Nebraska does not publish a fixed question count or numeric passing score for that test.
• Manual Section 3 (Signs, Signals and Markings) splits into 3A Signals, 3B Signs, 3C Pavement Markings — the practice exam keys each answer to a manual page number.

Sign shapes at a glance

• Octagon, red = Stop (the only 8-sided sign).
• Downward triangle = Yield.
• Round = Railroad crossing.
• Pentagon = School zone/crossing.
• Diamond = General warning (curve, merge, deer).
• Vertical rectangle = Regulatory (speed, one-way, turn rules).
• Green horizontal rectangle = Guide/destination.
• Color cheat: red = stop/prohibit, yellow = warning, orange = work zone, green = guidance, blue = services, brown = recreation.

Right-of-way in one breath

• Right-of-way is yielded, never taken — when in doubt, yield.
• Uncontrolled intersection: first to arrive goes first; on a tie, yield to the driver on your right.
• Left turns yield to oncoming traffic and to pedestrians in the crosswalk.
• Everyone yields to pedestrians in crosswalks and to approaching emergency vehicles (pull right, stop).
• A vehicle already in a lane has the right-of-way over one merging into it.

Top traps

• Flashing red = treat like a full stop sign; flashing yellow = slow and proceed with caution — don't mix these up.
• Solid yellow center line = no passing; broken line = passing OK when safe.
• Posted speed limits are a maximum for ideal conditions only — slow further for rain, snow, fog, or darkness.
• No high beams in fog — they reflect back and cut your own visibility.
• There's no safe threshold for impaired driving; fatigue and distraction impair judgment the same way alcohol does.
• Confirm your license class (LPE/LPD/SCP/POP/Class O) before studying — the written test differs by class even though the manual is shared.