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Championship: Commercial Driver'south License (CDL)
Alternate Title: CDL - Commercial Driver's License
Clarification: Minnesota Department of Public Rubber (DPS)
Subject: Commercial Drivers
Commercial Vehicles
Commuter Medical Waivers
Drivers
Drivers' License
Creation Appointment: 9/eleven/2008 2:11:57 PM
Modification Date: 3/23/2022 9:33:23 AM

Bureau Proper name: Public Safety (DPS), Minnesota Department of
Agency URL: https://dps.mn.gov
Agency Description:

The Minnesota Section of Public Safe (DPS) is responsible for the Bureau of Criminal Anticipation (BCA), Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement, Commuter and Vehicle Services (DVS), Emergency Communication Networks, Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Function of Justice Programs, Country Fire Marshal, Pipeline Safety, Thruway Patrol, Capitol Security and Traffic Safe.

Agency Phone: 651-201-7000
Agency Fax: Agency URL: https://dps.mn.gov

Bureau Address: Public Safety, Minnesota Dept. of
445 Minnesota Street

St. Paul
MN 55101

Division Name: Driver and Vehicle Services (DVS)
Division URL: https://onlineservices.dps.mn.gov/EServices/_/
Partitioning Clarification:

Sectionalisation Phone: 651-297-5029
651-282-6555 TTY
Division Fax: Division URL: https://onlineservices.dps.mn.gov/EServices/_/

Division Accost:
445 Minnesota St., Suite 190

St. Paul
MN 55101-5190

Audition: Application URL:
Renewal URL:
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Requirements:

A person must have a commercial commuter'south license (CDL) to operate whatsoever of the post-obit commercial motor vehicles (CMV) in Minnesota:

A combination of vehicles in which the gross combination weight (GCW) is more than 26,000 pounds and the towed unit has a gross vehicle weight (GVW)* of more than ten,000 pounds — Minimum age is xviii

A single vehicle with a GVW exceeding 26,000 pounds — Minimum age is xviii

A vehicle designed to transport more than 15 persons, including the driver — Minimum historic period is 18

Any size vehicle that requires hazardous materials placards — in most cases, a person must be 21 years of age to send hazardous materials. **

Any size vehicle outwardly equipped and identified as a school bus — Minimum historic period is 18

* Minnesota law defines gross vehicle weight (GVW) as the greater of:

The bodily weight of the vehicle or combination of vehicles plus the weight of the load, or
The manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating (GVW)

Interstate transportation refers to trade, traffic, or transportation betwixt

A state and some other state or state, or
Two places in a state on a route that goes through another state or state, or
Two places in a state as role of trade, traffic, or transportation originating or terminating outside the state

Intrastate driving refers to driving only within the state of licensure — in this case, Minnesota.

Intrastate transportation refers to transportation that does not involve interstate travel.

Commercial Motor Carrier Requirements

If you operate any class of vehicle equally an employer or employee, you may be field of study to commercial motor carrier requirements. This includes driving single unit and combination vehicles of over x,000 pounds GVW (such as construction vehicles), and vehicles used to deliver packages and other manufactures. Besides included are vehicles designed or used to transport more than eight passengers (including the driver) for compensation. The requirements may include the need to possess a valid U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) medical examiner's certificate, and restrictions on the number of hours you lot may bulldoze. There may too be vehicle maintenance, insurance, and inspection requirements.

Commercial Driver's License Classes

Class A — Any vehicle towing a unit of more than than ten,000 pounds GVWR with a gross combination weight rating (truck plus trailer) over 26,000 pounds.

Course B — A single-unit vehicle that is over 26,000 pounds GVWR.

For a rider endorsement, the skill examination must exist passed in a bus with a GVWR greater than 26,000 pounds and a rider capacity of more than 15, including the driver.
For a school passenger vehicle endorsement, the skill examination must be passed in a school bus with a GVWR greater than 26,000 pounds and a passenger chapters of more than 15, including the driver

Class C — A single-unit vehicle, 26,000 pounds GVWR or less, with one or more than of the following endorsements:

• Hazardous materials
• Passenger
• School bus (with passenger endorsement)

You must be at least 18 years old and accept a valid Minnesota driver's license in order to obtain a Minnesota commercial learner allow (CLP). All applicants must obtain a CLP, which will allow them to practise driving the commercial vehicle only with another commuter with the aforementioned form license or higher. The CLP must be held for 14 calendar days before existence able to take the CDL road tests.

The process to utilize for the CLP requires:

Passing all the applicable cognition tests for the class and endorsements desired.

Complete the application for a CLP.

Submitting a self-certification form and providing a valid medical examiner document, if applicable.

Providing citizenship documents which includes:

o Valid, unexpired U.S. Passport or Passport card

o Certified copy of birth certificate from a U.Due south. State, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa or the Northern Mariana Islands

o Consular Report of Birth Away issued past the U.S. Department of State

o Document of Naturalization issued by DHS

o Certificate of Citizenship issued past DHS

o Valid, unexpired Permanent Residence Card

o Unexpired employment authorization certificate issued by USCIS (U.s.a. Citizenship and Clearing Services) or an unexpired foreign passport accompanied by an approved I-94 form

If the proper name on your U.S. passport, birth certificate or permanent residency card has changed you must likewise present proof of your legal name change(s). Acceptable proof consists of certified marriage certificates, certified divorce decrees or other certified court orders. Divorce decrees or other court orders must specify the name change. Your identity and name modify documents demand to testify a articulate link between your citizenship or permanent residency document and your current name.

Commercial Learner Permits are valid for 180 days and are not renewable; the applicant must retake the noesis tests for some other CLP.

A driver'south license may be restricted to the size and blazon of vehicle used for the road test. Unless the CMV used for testing has air brakes, the driver will exist restricted to driving vehicles without air brakes, fifty-fifty if they passed the air brake knowledge test.

Endorsements and Restrictions

Additional testing and fees are required to add endorsements or remove restrictions from a CDL. Adding school autobus and passenger transport endorsements requires a route examination in an appropriate vehicle.

To renew a CDL with hazmat or school bus endorsement, the hazmat or schoolhouse double-decker endorsement noesis test needs to retaken. The cognition test is not required to renew licenses with other endorsements.

In order to upgrade a commuter'south license with schoolhouse bus, hazmat or other endorsements, the driver must pass a written examination for each endorsement.

Endorsements:

(H) Hazardous Materials*

(N) Tank Vehicle

(P) Passenger Transport

(S) Schoolhouse Omnibus

(T) Doubles/Triples

(X) Tanker and Hazardous Materials

Restrictions:

(E) Automated Transmission CMV

(Thou) Intrastate but

(Fifty) Vehicles without air brakes

(M) No Class A passenger charabanc

(N) No Class B passenger double-decker
(O) No Tractor-trailer CMV
(P) No passengers in CMV bus
(Five) FMCSA waiver
( W) Buses less than 24 passenger chapters

(Ten) No cargo in CMV tank vehicle
(Z) Air over hydraulic brake system

Review the Minnesota Dept. of Public Prophylactic, Driver and Vehicle Services Driver's License Information and the

Minnesota Commercial Commuter'southward Manual

Rules: 7409
7410
7503

Statutes: 171.02
171.161

Forms:

View a list of all DVS Forms/Documents/Manuals at Driver'southward License Forms

Fees: DRIVER'S LICENSE FEES

Effective August 1, 2021 Minn. Stat. § 171.xiii sub. half-dozen increased motorcycle fees and are reflected below.

*Available at driver test stations only
**Fee does not include the cost of a new license

The West Metro (Plymouth), North Metro (Arden Hills) and South Metro (Eagan) Test Stations are unable to accept credit cards as a course of payment.

Commuter's Licenses	Fee
Class A, regular	$51
Class A, nether historic period 21	$31
Course B, regular or under age 21	$43
Grade C, regular or under historic period 21	$36
**School Bus Processing Fee - original and renewal applications	$4
Course D, regular or under historic period 21	$32
Conditional Commuter's License	$19.25
Form D Provisional License upgrade to nether age 21 driver'southward license-no violations on record ($3.50 credit)	$28.l
Duplicate Driver's License - all classes	$17
**Enhanced Driver's License (in addition to applicable Driver's License card fee)	$xv

Identification Cards	Fee
Under Age 65	$21.50
Age 65 and Older	$20.75
Physical Disability, Developmental Inability or Qualified Mental Illness	$.50
**Enhanced Identification Carte du jour (in improver to applicative ID card fee)	$fifteen

Permits/Endorsements	Fee
Class D Instruction Let (valid for 2 years)	$15.50
*Form A, B or C Instruction Permit	$ten.50
*Endorsement Exam Fees	$2.50
*Motorcycle Educational activity Permit/Endorsement Fee - note fee change constructive August one, 2021	$29
*Motorcycle Endorsement Renewal (two-wheel but) - annotation fee modify effective August 1, 2021	$17
**Standby or Temporary Custodian Designation	$4.25

**Expedited (Fast Runway) Services	Fee
Commuter's License and Identification Card Sure applications exercise non authorize for fast track services, these include but are not limited to: EDL/EID and whatever first time applications. Notation: Driver's License or Identification Cards will be processed within three (3) business days. Customer should receive the card via UPS (United Parcel Service) inside 10 business days. Refer toDVS Office Locations to run into participating offices.	$xx

Reinstatement	Fee
**Revoked licenses: Alcohol/Drugs/Criminal Vehicular Functioning (vii/ane/03)	$680
Other revocation offenses, including revocation for no-error insurance	$30
**Suspended license	$xx
No-Fault Insurance (suspended)	$20
CDL Disqualification	$20

Motorized Cycle Operator'southward Permit	Fee
*Knowledge test and xxx-24-hour interval instruction permit	$6.75
Motorized Bicycle Operator's Allow before age 21 and valid to age 21	$17.75
Duplicate Permit	$13.25
Renewal, age 21 or older	$23.75

Retesting	Fee
*Tertiary and Subsequent Knowledge Test afterward declining beginning 2	$10
*Third and Subsequent Skills Test after failing commencement ii	$20

Menses of Issuance:

Commercial driver'southward licenses ever expire on the bidder's altogether and must be renewed every four years once they have reached the age of 21.

Length of Determination: Ten days to two weeks.
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