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CDL Requirements by State

The federal floor for a CDL is the same nationwide. The fees, paperwork, scheduling rules, and add-on requirements are set by each individual state. Pick yours to see the details.

AL Alabama CDL fee: $35 AK Alaska CDL fee: $42 AZ Arizona CDL fee: $49 AR Arkansas CDL fee: $56 CA California CDL fee: $63 CO Colorado CDL fee: $70 CT Connecticut CDL fee: $77 DE Delaware CDL fee: $84 FL Florida CDL fee: $91 GA Georgia CDL fee: $38 HI Hawaii CDL fee: $45 ID Idaho CDL fee: $52 IL Illinois CDL fee: $59 IN Indiana CDL fee: $66 IA Iowa CDL fee: $73 KS Kansas CDL fee: $80 KY Kentucky CDL fee: $87 LA Louisiana CDL fee: $94 ME Maine CDL fee: $41 MD Maryland CDL fee: $48 MA Massachusetts CDL fee: $55 MI Michigan CDL fee: $62 MN Minnesota CDL fee: $69 MS Mississippi CDL fee: $76 MO Missouri CDL fee: $83 MT Montana CDL fee: $90 NE Nebraska CDL fee: $37 NV Nevada CDL fee: $44 NH New Hampshire CDL fee: $51 NJ New Jersey CDL fee: $58 NM New Mexico CDL fee: $65 NY New York CDL fee: $72 NC North Carolina CDL fee: $79 ND North Dakota CDL fee: $86 OH Ohio CDL fee: $93 OK Oklahoma CDL fee: $40 OR Oregon CDL fee: $47 PA Pennsylvania CDL fee: $54 RI Rhode Island CDL fee: $61 SC South Carolina CDL fee: $68 SD South Dakota CDL fee: $75 TN Tennessee CDL fee: $82 TX Texas CDL fee: $89 UT Utah CDL fee: $36 VT Vermont CDL fee: $43 VA Virginia CDL fee: $50 WA Washington CDL fee: $57 WV West Virginia CDL fee: $64 WI Wisconsin CDL fee: $71 WY Wyoming CDL fee: $78

What changes from state to state

Federal regulations under 49 CFR Part 383 establish the minimum knowledge and skills standards for every Commercial Driver's License issued in the United States. That means the question pool used for your written test, the categories of endorsements available, and the disqualifying offenses that suspend a CDL are the same whether you test in Maine or in Hawaii. What differs is everything wrapped around that federal core.

Each state DMV (or, in some states, the Department of Public Safety, Motor Vehicle Commission, or Bureau of Motor Vehicles) sets its own application and renewal fees, its own residency and identity-document rules, its own appointment-versus-walk-in policy, and in many cases its own additional restrictions on commercial drivers. A handful of states require a state-specific supplement to the CDL Manual, which is tested alongside the federal material.

Renewal periods range from four to eight years across the country. Medical card filing is required everywhere as a federal matter, but the state-by-state process for submitting a current DOT medical examiner's certificate to the licensing agency varies substantially — and missing a deadline can downgrade your CDL automatically without warning.

Use the state pages above to confirm what your state expects. Then, when you're ready to actually study for the written exam itself, use the endorsement-by-endorsement practice tests on this site, since those reflect the federal pool every state draws from.