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Your road to a CDL

Every step from learner permit to license, written from the state manuals, with the parts people fail most spelled out.

Start at stop one.

1
Plan it
Which license you need, what it takes and in what order.
- How to get a CDLThe steps to a commercial driver license in order: license class, medical card, knowledge tests and the learner permit, entry-level training, and the three-part skills test.
2
Pass the permit test
The written tests for your commercial learner’s permit.
- Pass the CDL permit testWhich knowledge tests you take for the CDL permit, how many questions and how many you need right, what each test covers, and a study plan that works.
- Air brakes testWhat the CDL air brakes knowledge test asks, the numbers you must know (governor, leakage, low air warning, spring brakes) and where state manuals disagree.
3
Pass the skills test
It starts with the pre-trip inspection. Fail that and you go no further.
- Pre-trip inspection checklistAll 32 Class A pre-trip inspection items with what the examiner checks, in walk-around order, and which states let you bring a checklist.
- Modernized vs old skills testWhich states give the modernized CDL skills test, what is different in the vehicle inspection (checklist memory aid, one axle, four-part air brake check) and how to find your version.

Getting your CDL in a particular state?

Pick it for that state’s test version, its own rules and its manual.

Full guides for California, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.

Where are you getting your CDL?