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What your CDL will really cost
Every figure links to where it came from — official fee schedules for government fees, schools' own published prices for tuition — and shows whether a human has verified it yet. Each fee appears the moment it's verified against the official source (Ohio first); anything still unchecked is marked pending — never an aggregator guess or an invented fee. States without a data file yet get the federal baseline.
Ohio — official feesOhio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) ↗
CLP / commercial learner permit
source ↗verified 2026-06-15$31.50
Knowledge (written) test
source ↗verified 2026-07-30$0
Skills (road) test
source ↗verified 2026-07-30$50
CDL license issuance
source ↗verified 2026-06-15$46.50
Per endorsement (BMV portion)
source ↗verified 2026-07-30$0
State & testing fees$128.00
Also verified for Ohio · not part of the first-CDL total
First CDL — 8-year option
source ↗verified 2026-06-15$92
CDL renewal (4-year)
source ↗verified 2026-06-15$49.25
CDL renewal (8-year)
source ↗verified 2026-06-15$97.40
Duplicate / replacement CDL
source ↗verified 2026-06-15$31.50
Typical private-school tuition · sampled range, July 2026
Across sampled Ohio Class A schools
low source ↗high source ↗sampled estimate — not a government fee$4,995–$7,165.20
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