I-Credential
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.
Ixabiso elifunekayo ukufumana i-100% yemali efunekayo
Akukho bukhulu boqeqesho olulodwa - lumiselwe ilizwe ngalinye.
Iinyanga zemali efunekayo ukuhlawula iindleko. Ayikukuba yiinyanga de ube uphambili ngokupheleleyo – ixesha loqeqesho oluphezulu livela kuqala.
Xa akukho mfanekiso ophezulu ungaqinisekiswa sipapasha akukho mfanekiso ngaphandle kokulinganisa.
Icebo: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · Imboniselo
Iinkqubo ezixhaswa yi-Agency for the
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.
Iinkqubo zolawulo lweendawo ezikhuselekileyo
Inombolo ethe yashiya ngaphandle
I- 3,800,000 active interstate commercial driver's licence holders Iinkqubo 2024, Iinkcukacha ze-akhawunti ye-akhawunti 2,062,040 Iinkqubo zolawulo lweenkonzo 54.3%. Ishiya 1,737,960 i-100%
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Izinto eziquka: 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.
Igama le projekti: 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) · Imboniselo
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.
Iinkqubo zoqeqesho ezinikezelwa yi-IOM ziquka
Iminyaka emihlanu emva kokuphela — ixabiso lekhowudi yenkqubo, hayi le misebenzi kuphela
I-O 9,948 abagqibezela Ground transportation (truck and bus driving), undergraduate certificate or diploma minyaka mihlanu emva koko, 834 i-100% 8.4%. abasebenzayo bafumana i-10% yemali $52,118, 100% $28,154 kunye $74,052.
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Le mifanekiso ayichazi kakuhle le misebenzi. IGosa lezoBugcisa lipapasha iziphumo zenkqubo ngeenombolo ezine ezithe nkqo, kwaye le nkqubo yobungqina ibelana ngekhowudi yayo nabanye. Ngoko ke, lo mfanekiso uchaza bonke abagqibezela nantoni na phantsi kwekhowudi kulo mgangatho, hayi kuphela abantu abaqhubekeke ukwenza le misebenzi.
Iinkqubo ezixhasayo: 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.
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Icebo: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · Imboniselo · i-100% yemali efunekayo
Izinto ezikuvumela ukuba uzenza
Imali ixhomekeke kwimisebenzi, ayixhomekeki kwidiploma. Ezi zimisebenzi eyenza ukuba uphumelele.
| Imisebenzi | Ingaba ifuneka? | Median | I-Ofisi |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | Legally required to hold the job | $58,640 | 2,062,040 |
Imali ephakathi yomsebenzi nomsebenzi: I-BLS, Umsebenzi osebenzayo kunye neNkqubo yoLwazi lweMivuzo, ngoMeyi 2025.
Ingaba ihlawulisa ngokwayo?
Umsebenzi ovulwa yinkqubo $58,640. I-median ethe tyaba yomsebenzi kwimisebenzi yonke esipapashayo $50,020, i-100% $8,620 kwiminyaka emibini
Funda oku njengenxulumano nemisebenzi eqhelekileyo, hayi nemisebenzi yakho. Iinkqubo ezixhasayo
Ikholelwa ekubeni ufumana umsebenzi. Yonke imifanekiso yokubuyisa imali kule ndawo ixhomekeke ekubeni iqeshwe kwimisebenzi. Lo ngumbono othi ubalo lomsebenzisi ogunyazisiweyo ophezulu lukhona uvavanyo, kwaye lumbono othi onke amanye amawebhusayithi ohlawula awenza ngokucothayo.
Izinto ofuna ukukhetha
- A valid driving licence and a clean enough record
- A DOT medical certificate
- Age 21 for interstate driving
Musa ukwenza oku ukuba
- 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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