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Training takes 4–8 weeks. Across the 49 Washington programs that publish their results, 81% of graduates are working afterward, and half of them earn more than $56,800 a year.
The hard part is rarely the driving. It's the weeks without a paycheck — and there is more help with that than almost anyone is told about.
Nothing here is an advertisement. No school or employer can pay to be listed, ranked higher, or left out — and you never have to give us your details to look.
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Everything depends on this — what you can reach, who pays for it, and which office writes the check. Type five digits, or find yourself on the map.
All 39 Washington counties. 17 have no CDL training open to the public.
- Adams1 program
- Asotinno training
- Benton11 programs
- Chelanno training
- Clallamno training
- Clark7 programs
- Columbiano training
- Cowlitz3 programs
- Douglasno training
- Ferryno training
- Franklin7 programs
- Garfieldno training
- Grant12 programs
- Grays Harbor4 programs
- Islandno training
- Jeffersonno training
- King20 programs
- Kitsap10 programs
- Kittitas2 programs
- Klickitatno training
- Lewis6 programs
- Lincoln1 program
- Mason1 program
- Okanogan4 programs
- Pacificno training
- Pend Oreilleno training
- Pierce27 programs
- San Juanno training
- Skagit21 programs
- Skamaniano training
- Snohomish9 programs
- Spokane15 programs
- Stevensno training
- Thurston14 programs
- Wahkiakumno training
- Walla Walla3 programs
- Whatcom6 programs
- Whitmanno training
- Yakima7 programs
There is more than one way in
Get hired first, trained second
40 Washington employers will take you on before you have a license, train you themselves, and keep paying you while you learn.
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Have someone else cover tuition
161 programs are on the state's eligible-provider list, which is what lets a public workforce grant pay the bill instead of you.
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Pick a school with your eyes open
Where Washington knows how a program's graduates fared, we show you — alongside 93 services that help with childcare, transport and the rest.
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Schools, employers and community organizations each hold a piece of this that the others cannot see. All three are free, and none of them buys a ranking.
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I hire drivers
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We check every school, so you don't have to
- 625CDL training locations are registered in Washington
- 130will enroll a member of the public
- 73teach Class A behind-the-wheel on public roads
- 161are on the state's eligible list, so a WIOA grant can pay the tuition
- 51publish what happened to their graduates
Most lists you will find stop at the first number. We keep going, so the 73 places that will actually take you are the ones you see first, and the 51 that report their results are marked as such. This join between the federal training registry and Washington's eligible-provider list has not been published before, and the whole dataset is open for anyone to check.