NE third-party tester bonds.
$750. Five minutes.
Nebraska requires a private (non-government) CDL third-party tester to maintain a $25,000 bond with the Department of Motor Vehicles before it is approved to test. Ours is $750 flat — 3% of the bond amount, identical for every tester. The application is five minutes, with no credit check on this bond.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Testing bonds are simple. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Your testing company's details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
Fixed-amount license bonds like this are among the thousands of 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 file with your third-party tester certification application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
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$25,000 bond × 3% = $750, 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
Nebraska lets private companies become certified third-party testers that administer the CDL skills test on the DMV's behalf. Because that puts the integrity of CDL testing in private hands, a tester that is not a government entity must initiate and maintain a $25,000 bond as a condition of approval.
The bond is a retesting guarantee: it stands behind the cost of retesting drivers if the third-party tester or one of its examiners engages in fraudulent activity while skills-testing CDL applicants. The protected party is the State of Nebraska and the public who rely on honest commercial-driver testing.
It is a three-party arrangement — you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the Department of Motor Vehicles (the obligee). If the DMV pays to retest drivers because of testing fraud and recovers against the bond, you repay the surety. Testers who run clean, honest skills tests treat the bond as a certification formality, not a risk.
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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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$750 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.