CO CDL third-party testing bonds.
$600. Five minutes.
A non-government CDL third-party testing unit in Colorado posts a $20,000 performance bond to the state as a condition of its testing contract with the DMV. Ours is $600 flat — 3% of the bond amount — and there is no credit check on this bond.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Performance bonds like this are simple to issue. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials and no credit-check section on this bond.
Pay & e-sign
Small fixed-amount performance bonds like this are among the bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the DMV
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to submit with your third-party testing contract. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
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$20,000 bond × 3% = $600, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Colorado lets private businesses and schools administer the CDL skills test as third-party testing units under the DMV's third-party testing program, which is grounded in the commercial driver's license statutes at C.R.S. 42-2-401 et seq. A testing unit that is not a governmental agency must post a $20,000 performance bond as a condition of its contract with the Department of Revenue.
The bond is a performance guarantee to the State of Colorado: it stands behind the testing unit's faithful performance of the contract and the integrity of the skills tests it administers. If a unit breaches the contract or its testing duties and the state is harmed, the state can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Testing units that run clean, compliant programs treat the bond as a contract formality, and we track it so your filing stays continuous, with notices 60 and 30 days before expiration.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit-check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
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$600 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.