Students plan their CDL here.
Train them at your school.
GetCDL.org is the free resource new drivers use to price out training and check their funding — built by a 15-year Class A CDL driver, so they trust what it says. When those students look for a program, founding partner schools are who we point them to.
Finding students is expensive. Being found is worse.
You run a training program, not a marketing agency — but student acquisition keeps acting like your second full-time job.
Bought leads arrive pre-shared
The big lead brokers often sell the same student's number to several schools at once — you're paying to race your competitors to a phone call.
Students research on content farms
Someone searching “CDL cost” or “free CDL training” lands on SEO sites written by people who've never held the wheel. Nobody there is pointing them to a real local program.
Funded students can't find you
WIOA can pay for CDL training, and a student spending those dollars generally has to pick from the state's approved-provider list — the Eligible Training Provider List (ETPL) source ↗. If that student never learns your program qualifies, their funded seat goes to someone else.
What founding partners get.
Plain English, because that's how the whole deal works.
- A featured school profile
- Your programs, schedules, funding options, photos, and reviews — on the pages students already use to plan their CDL.
- Student leads, delivered directly
- When a student near you asks to be matched, their details go straight to your team — with their consent on record.
- A free founding-partner period
- Everything free while the site proves itself. Pricing comes later, in writing, before you owe anything.
- No long contract
- Month to month once the free period ends. If it isn't working, you leave — no lock-in, no penalty.
Example: what your school's profile could look like.
An illustrative mockup with fictional placeholder details — no real school is featured here. Your profile would carry your programs, your photos, and your reviews.
Your facility, fleet & range photos here
Real photos convert — stock images aren't allowed.
Sample Truck Driving Academy
Anytown, Ohio · example listing
Funding & training badges — yours to set
- Accepts WIOA funding
- Financing available
- ELDT provider
Programs offered
Class A CDL — full-time
Your length, your schedule
Class A CDL — nights & weekends
For students who keep working
Refresher course
For licensed drivers coming back
What students see
- Next start dates
- Tuition, funding & financing details
- Job placement support
- Photos of your trucks, range & classrooms
Your real student reviews go here — the honest kind, collected after graduation, with the student's permission.
A student's interest goes straight to your admissions inbox.
From free tool to your inbox.
No auction, no reselling machinery — a short, direct route.
- 1
A student finds GetCDL
Through the free practice tests, the cost calculator, or the free-training checker — planning their CDL, not clicking an ad.
- 2
They see your profile
Featured where students compare programs near them: your programs, your funding options, your reviews.
- 3
They raise their hand
Name, contact details, ZIP, and consent to be contacted — submitted because they want to hear from a school.
- 4
The lead reaches you
Everything they submitted, forwarded straight to your admissions team while the intent is fresh.
Exactly what each lead contains
- Name
- Optional — how the student introduced themselves.
- Required — the student's contact address.
- Phone
- Optional — and only ever accepted together with the consent below, so every number you get is one you're allowed to call.
- Consent
- TCPA consent to be contacted by phone/text, with the value and timestamp on record.
- ZIP code
- Optional — so you can see who's in your service area.
- Source page
- Which tool the student used (cost calculator, free-training checker, etc.).
- Timestamp
- When they submitted — so you can follow up while intent is fresh.
How we collect, store, and share these details is governed by our privacy policy.
Free until it earns its keep.
The first schools in get the plainest deal we'll ever offer.
The founding period is free
Founding partners pay nothing while GetCDL proves itself: full profile, every lead, a direct line to the founder — at zero cost and zero risk.
Then one flat monthly fee
The exact figure is agreed in writing before your free period ends — no surprise bills, ever.
Flat and time-based — never per-student
What you pay is for time listed, period — never per enrollment, and never verification status. We don't get paid by the student, and the verified checkmark can't be bought: it's earned by being a real program.
No long contract
Month to month. If the leads aren't worth it, walk away — keeping partners honest is our job, not the paperwork's.
Straight talk: this site launched in June 2026. I'm not going to promise you a number of leads — nobody honest can, this early. What I can promise is the free tools students actually use, a voice they trust because I've driven the miles, and a founding deal where you risk nothing while we earn our keep.
— Travis Stuckert, 15-year Class A CDL driver
Claim your founding-partner spot
Tell us about your program — or just ask for a preview of what your school's profile could look like. Prefer to reach us directly? Email travis@getcdl.org.