About StateCDLRequirements.com

We are an independent guide to getting and keeping a US commercial driver's license. Our whole job is to turn scattered federal rules and 51 different state processes into pages you can actually act on — and to show our work so you can check it.

We're an independent publisher

StateCDLRequirements.com is not a government agency and not affiliated with one. We are not the FMCSA, the TSA, your state's DMV or driver-licensing agency, or a CDL school. We don't issue commercial driver's licenses, medical certificates, or endorsements, and we can't look up, change, or expedite your personal record. What we can do is explain the rules clearly and point you to the official office that handles your case.

Because we're independent, we're free to be blunt about trade-offs — when "company-sponsored" training carries a contract, when a fee is really a range, or when a rule is set federally but administered differently in your state.

How we verify what we publish

We work official-sources-first. Before a fact goes on a page, we trace it to a primary source, in this order of preference:

1. Federal regulation (the eCFR). The commercial-license rules live in Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations — parts like 49 CFR 383 (licensing), 380 (ELDT), and 391 (physical qualification). Where a number is defined in regulation, we cite the regulation.
2. Federal agencies. The FMCSA for licensing, training, and the medical standard; the TSA for the hazmat security threat assessment and its fee.
3. State licensing agencies. For anything a state controls — fees, scheduling, third-party testing, document lists — we use that state's own DMV or driver-services website.

Every requirements page lists its sourcesand carries a "last verified" date and the agency behind the claim. When a detail can vary or we can't confirm it against an official source, we say so and tell you to confirm it with your state agency rather than guess.

How often we update

Rules and fees change, so pages aren't "set and forget." Our cadence:

• At least once a year, we re-verify every state and federal page against its official source and refresh the date.
• When a federal rule changes — a new FMCSA rule, an updated medical or ELDT requirement, a new TSA fee — we update the affected pages as soon as we can confirm the change at the source.
• Fee and process changes at the state level are tracked the same way; a dated page tells you exactly how fresh the number is.

How we make money (and how that affects you)

This site is reader-focused and, at the moment, runs no live advertising, no analytics, and no affiliate tracking. Some pages reserve space for training referrals in the future, but those slots are inert placeholders today — they collect nothing and recommend no one. If that ever changes, we'll disclose it plainly and it will never change what the regulations say. We don't collect personal information and we run no lead-generation forms. See our privacy policy for specifics.

Found a mistake?

We'd rather hear it than leave it wrong. Emaileditor@statecdlrequirements.com(this address is a placeholder for the editorial inbox) with the page and the source you think is more current. Our editorial policy explains how we handle corrections. For anything about your own license, your state agency is the right contact.

Reviewed 2026.