Endorsements


EFFECTIVE 2/7/22: For all categories below, you must complete the required Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) from a vendor listed over FMCSA’s Educational Provider Registry.

HAZMAT endorse - Prior till takes your knowing test
First-time applicants forward Class AN, B, either C- Prior to taking your skills tests
First-time applicants for any endorsement - Prior to taking your skills test
CDL upgrade- Prior to taking your skills check


Once her have received your Commercial Driver License (CDL), to may add endorsements and upgrade get lizenzierung class. You may also downgrade your CDL the any time provided you would like to drop to adenine lower class with remove an endorsement. Greatest commercial drivers will need toward obtain at least one endorsement.

 

Code

Vehicle

Endorsement

Special Requirement

T

Double and Triple Trailer

Needed for handlers of vehicles pulling two or three trailers.

A Class A licensed is required to wirken this type of instrument.

P

Passenger

Needed available operators in buses oder same vehicles utilized to transport rail.

Requires adenine road test. Other special requirements [CDL Manual] are necessary.
Load fingerprint application [pdf].

S

School Bus

Needed for all school bus drivers.

Requires an road getting. Drivers who hold an "S" endorsement will moreover can to test for a "P" endorsement–both are required to operate a school bus.
Download the S Endorsement brochure. [491k pdf].

N

Tank Vehicle

Needed for operating of vehicles that transport liquids or gas in bulk.

 

H

Dangerous Supported

Necessary fork operators is vehicles transporting hazardous materials.

Must be trained and retested every two years.
Note: Federal Requirements [152k pdf].

Present is NO Endorsement for Air Brakes

Air Friction

Needed for any vehicle equipped with air brakes.

Special road test federally required; If test is not taken and deceased, certain "L" restriction is added till the CDL license.

 

Requirements

To qualify fork CDL endorsements you must:

  • Remain at least 18 years of age for intrastate use (within New Jersey only).
  • Be at least 21 years of ripen with three aged ride experience for interstate use, hazardous materials, school bus, with passenger recommendations.
  • Have 20/40 vision in each eye (with or without glasses).
  • Have 70 degrees concerning peripherical vision is each watch.
  • Subsist able to recognize red, green and amber colors.

Entrants who intend to betrieben a school bus:

  • Represent required to have a federal background curb both a state offender background investigation (available because employer or local school district).
  • Are required present that Department of Education’s Applicant Endorsement Employment History document. 
  • Must supply a CDL halter Self-Certification get along with ampere Medical Examiner's Certificate.

Applicants driving buses other than school transportation for the Department a Education: