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Commercial driver's licence (CDL)
Weeks rather than years, a few thousand dollars rather than tens of thousands, and it is the cheapest credential on this site that leads to work paying above the typical US job.
Koliko stane, če dobimo srednji del dosega.
Ni enotne dolžine usposabljanja – določi se glede na stanje države.
Meseci premije za plačilo, ki so potrebni za pokritje teh stroškov. Ne meseci, dokler ne napredujete na splošno – čas usposabljanja je prvi.
Kadar zgoraj navedene številke ni bilo mogoče preveriti, ne objavljamo ničesar kot oceno.
Vir: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · pogled
Kakšna je ta cena in kaj ni
This figure covers only the truck-driving schools that take federal student aid — 37 institutions reported one — and that is a small and probably unrepresentative slice of CDL training. Most CDL training is either paid for in cash at a private school or funded by a carrier in exchange for a work commitment, and neither appears in federal data at all. That range is median cumulative FEDERAL LOAN DEBT at completion, not a tuition sticker price and not total cost. It is what completers actually borrowed, so it excludes grants, savings, family money, employer funding and living costs — which makes it a FLOOR on what the credential costs, never a ceiling. The low and high figures are the 25th and 75th percentiles across the institutions that report a figure for this programme, so a quarter of institutions sit below the low end. College Scorecard pools two award years into each figure; the release used here is dated 10 June 2026.
There is no national training length. Federal Entry-Level Driver Training rules set a curriculum but no minimum hours, so programmes run from about three weeks to a few months. Carrier-sponsored training is usually at the short end and comes with a contract that is expensive to break.
The licence renews with your state driving licence, and a DOT medical certificate has to stay current alongside it.
Koliko ljudi to drži in koliko dela na terenu
Številka, ki jo plača, izpusti
Od 3,800,000 active interstate commercial driver's licence holders všteto v 2024, Zavezni računi za zaposlovanje 2,062,040 dela na poklicih, ki jih je treba – 54.3%. To ostane. 1,737,960 imetnike, ki jih ne obračunava.
Ta vrzel je zgornja meja, ne pa stopnja brezposelnosti. Vrzelina vsebuje vse, ki so se preselili v upravljanje, poučevanje, prodajo, inšpekcijsko delo ali povezano delo, ki je zvezna podatkovna datoteka pod drugačno poklicno dejavnostjo; vsak, ki je upokojen ali odšel, ne da bi se predal uverljivosti; vsak dela s krajšim delovnim časom, agencijo ali samozaposleno na način, ki ga raziskava zaposlovanja ne zajema; in vsak, ki ga drži kot drugo nizo na drugo delo. Torej je vrzel CEILING o tem, koliko izurjenih ljudi ne dela na tem področju – resnična številka ni nižja, in ni štetje nikogar, ki je brezposelen. Kaj par ugotovi, je velikost bazena objavljena številka plače je tiho, kar je stvar, ki ni na strani plačevanju.
Obe strani sta v položaju. Imetniki na datumu proti zaposlitvi v določenem obdobju – enaka količina, kar je edini razlog, da se ta dva sploh razdelita.
Kaj to pomeni?: Drivers holding a commercial driver's licence and authorised to drive across state lines, as counted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. It EXCLUDES intrastate-only CDL holders, whom FMCSA counted separately at 2.1 million in a December 2023 snapshot; FMCSA publishes no combined total, so we do not add them. FMCSA states the figure to two significant figures and we carry it at that precision rather than inventing more.
Denominator: active interstate commercial driver's licence holders = 3,800,000 (Standing count of people holding the credential, FMCSA figure for 2024) · FMCSA, Non-Domiciled Commercial Driver's Licenses and Commercial Learner's Permits, 90 FR 46520 (29 September 2025) · pogled
One structural caveat pushes the gap wider than it really is: federal employment data counts employees, not the self-employed, so owner-operators driving their own trucks are largely missing from the employed side. They hold CDLs and they are working. The unaccounted-for holders below therefore overstate the number of licensed drivers not driving, by an amount nobody publishes.
Kaj se je zgodilo z ljudmi, ki so končali usposabljanje?
Štiri leta po dokončanju – številka za programski kodeks, ne samo za to delo
od 9,948 osebe, ki so končali Ground transportation (truck and bus driving), undergraduate certificate or diploma in niso več študiral štiri leta kasneje, 834 ni imel nobenih zaslužkov v zapisniku, sploh ni imel; 8.4%. Tisti, ki so delali, so si zaslužili mediano $52,118, z srednjo polovico med $28,154 in $74,052.
‚Nobena zaslužek v zapisniku‘ ni ‚nezaposlena‘. Ukrep je odsotnost kakršne koli pozitivne plače in pozitivnega dohodka od samozaposlenosti za celo leto. Nihče ni bil vprašan, ali želijo delati, zato je grof zadržal ljudi, ki so izbirno zapustili delovno silo – vzgajanje otrok, skrbenje, potovanje, življenje na dohodek nekoga drugega, selitev v tujino – poleg vseh, ki so hoteli službo in niso imeli nobenega. Nihče ne objavlja razdeljenega dela, ki ga ne bomo ugajali. Ugotovlja, koliko ljudi je to usposabljanje končalo in niso zaslužili ničesar od tega ali od česar koli drugega štiri leta naprej, kar vam ne more povedati natančno tisto, kar vam je zgoraj navedeno.
Ta številka ni specifična za to delo. Zvezna vlada objavlja rezultate programa z štirimestno granularijo in brez nižjih vrednosti, in ta uverljivost programov delijo svojo kodo z drugimi. Tako številka opisuje vse, ki so izpolnili karkoli pod to kodo na tej ravni, ne le ljudi, ki so nadaljevali to delo.
Kaj zajema ta koda programa: CIP 49.02 is ground transportation: truck and bus driving, and also flagging and traffic control. Most completions are truck driving. One caveat matters more here than anywhere else on this page — this covers only the driving schools that take federal student aid, and most CDL training is paid in cash or funded by a carrier and never appears in federal data at all.
This covers only driving schools inside the federal student-aid system, which is a small and probably unrepresentative slice of CDL training — the same limitation as the cost figure above, and for the same reason.
Kdo je v kohorti: Dopolnilci, ki so prejeli zvezno študentsko pomoč – približno polovica študentov iz ZDA, in druga polovica pa niso izmerjeni tukaj. Ljudje, ki so nadaljevali študij, niso v nobenem stolpcu. Oddelek zavira institucije z premajhnimi kohorti, da bi objavili in dodajali statistični hrup drugim, tako da je to vsota nad institucijami dovolj velika, da poročajo: 74 od njih, okrevanje 80.4% nacionalnim računom ministrstva za ta program. Odpoved najmanjših programov poročanja premika stopnjo za 0.1 odstotne točke.
Vir: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · pogled · enaka številka za vsak program, ki ga lahko objavimo
Kaj ti omogoča, da počneš
Plačilo je delo, ne pa uverenje, ampak poklic, za katerega te kvalificira.
| Job | Je to potrebno? | Mediana | Zaposleni |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | Legally required to hold the job | $58,640 | 2,062,040 |
Mediana plače in zaposlovanja: BLS Statistika poklicnega zaposlovanja in plače, maj 2025.
Ali se sama plača?
Naloga, ki jo odklene, plača mediano $58,640. Mediana, prilagojena zaposlitvi, je v vsakem poklicu, ki ga objavimo, $50,020, Torej je premija za držanje tega gre za $8,620 leto pred davkom.
Preberite to kot primerjavo s povprečnim delom, ne pa s svojim delom. Kaj je ta izhodišče in kaj izpusti iz sebe?
In domneva, da dobiš službo. Vsaka odplačilo na tej strani je pogojen z najemom v delo. To je domneva, da je zgornji prevzemnik-imetnik obstaja za testiranje, in to je predpostavka, da vsak drugi plačilni kraj tiho.
Kaj potrebujete, preden začnete
- A valid driving licence and a clean enough record
- A DOT medical certificate
- Age 21 for interstate driving
Ne storite tega, če
- you cannot pass a DOT physical or a drug and alcohol test
- you cannot be away from home for days or weeks at a time
- you have disqualifying convictions — the federal Clearinghouse lists over 200,000 CDL holders in prohibited status
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