NC driving school bonds.
$600. Five minutes.
North Carolina requires a commercial driver training school to file a $20,000 bond with the Division of Motor Vehicles to indemnify students against loss. Ours is $600 flat — 3% of the bond amount. The application is five minutes, and license bonds like this are the fastest thing we issue.
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Three steps. One sitting.
License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
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 driver training school license. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$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
North Carolina licenses commercial driver training schools through the Division of Motor Vehicles under G.S. Chapter 20, Article 14. Before the DMV approves a school, it requires a bond — and for a standard commercial driver training school, that bond is $20,000.
The bond is a student-protection guarantee: it indemnifies any student against loss or damage arising out of the school's breach of its contract with the student. If a school takes tuition and fails to deliver the training it promised, a harmed student can recover against the bond.
The DMV scales the bond by school type — a different figure can apply to seminar-only or longer-course schools. This page is the $20,000 commercial driver training school bond; if your license letter names a different amount, send it to us and we'll match it.
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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.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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$600 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.