How to get your CDL in Georgia (2026)
Getting a CDL in Georgia follows the federal steps every state uses: a DOT medical card, the knowledge tests for a learner permit, at least 14 days with the permit, entry-level driver training, and the three-part skills test. Georgia Department of Driver Services runs the tests and publishes the manual they are written from.
- Skills test: Georgia gives the modernized skills test.
- Checklist on the pre-trip: Yes. You may use a blank checklist as a memory aid during the vehicle inspection.
- Low air warning in the pre-trip inspection (skills test): before 55 psi.
What the Georgia manual says about the tests
- Georgia finished moving every site to the modernized skills test in June 2026.
- You may use the checklist printed in the CDL Study Guide for the order of inspection, with no extra markings or writing on it.
- If you fail a section, you retest with the same type of test you started on.
The steps in Georgia
- Choose your class (most truck drivers get Class A) and any endorsements.
- Be 21 to drive across state lines. Whether 18 to 20 year olds can drive within Georgia is in the state manual.
- Get a DOT medical card from an examiner on the FMCSA National Registry.
- Pass Georgia’s knowledge tests and get your commercial learner’s permit.
- Hold the permit at least 14 days.
- Finish entry-level driver training with a registered provider.
- Pass the skills test: vehicle inspection, basic control skills, road test.
Each step in detail, with what to expect: how to get your CDL. Fees, forms and offices are in the Commercial Driver's Study Guide.
What Georgia does its own way
- Skills test version: the modernized skills test.
- Checklist during the pre-trip: Yes. You may use a blank checklist as a memory aid during the vehicle inspection.
- Low air warning in the pre-trip inspection (skills test): Before pressure drops below 55 psi
Everything above, chapter by chapter: the Georgia CDL manual guide. Practice for Georgia’s tests: Georgia CDL practice test.
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Questions people ask
Get a DOT medical card, pass Georgia's knowledge tests for a commercial learner's permit, hold it at least 14 days, complete entry-level driver training from a registered provider, then pass the vehicle inspection, basic control and road tests.
Georgia gives the modernized skills test.
21 to drive across state lines under federal rules. Most states let drivers 18 to 20 hold a CDL for in-state driving only; the Georgia manual says whether Georgia does.