This resource is a flowchart to help determine class of CDL required.
Welcome to the Commercial Driver Licensing Resource website! You are invited to navigate and review this site for useful judicial tools and resources that are designed to help you better understand CDL safety, case adjudication, sentencing parameters, State and Federal regulations and the latest industry innovations and trends. As a project partnership between the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and The National Judicial College, we hope you find this site complementary to the important tasks preformed by judges who work each day to keep our roads and highways safe, save lives and thoughtfully apply the law to CDL holders.
You can find resources dedicated to adjudicating CDL cases in tribal courts at our CDL Issues in Indian Country website.
This resource is a flowchart to help determine class of CDL required.
This resource is a flowchart to help determine if a USDOT number is required.
Since the initial focus group, the development of autonomous vehicle technology, including Automated Driving Systems (ADS) for Commercial Motor Vehicles (CMV), has continued to proceed aggressively. Now, in the third decade of the 21st Century, the question has become: How prepared is law and regulation, as applied by the judiciary, for the cases and controversies that will inevitably follow the widespread deployment of ADS in CMVs?
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Operation Safe Driver Week will focus on speeding as the second most common driver violation in the US, according to Kerri Wirachowsky, director of inspection programs at CVSA. The webinar also emphasized the need for educating drivers on cross-border operations and differences in regulations, particularly regarding electronic Record of Duty Status (eRODS) violations due to the recent enforcement of electronic logging devices (ELDs) in Canada.
Created more than a half-century ago at the recommendation of a U.S. Supreme Court justice, The National Judicial College remains the only educational institution in the United States that teaches courtroom skills to judges of all types from all over the country, Indian Country and abroad. The categories of judges served by this nonprofit and nonpartisan institution, based in Reno, Nevada, since 1964, decide more than 95 percent of the cases in the United States.