North Carolina licenses commercial truck driver training schools through the DMV under 19A NCAC 03J, and conditions the license on a surety bond that protects students’ tuition. This is the $10,000 school bond — ours is $300 flat (3% of the bond), with no credit check.
















License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here is the entire process:
Business details, the county where the school is located, and an effective date. That is the application — no credit check section.
Fixed-amount license bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your commercial truck driver training school license.
$10,000 bond × 3% = $300, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
North Carolina licenses commercial truck (CDL) driver training schools through the DMV under the rules in 19A NCAC 03J. A school must file a surety bond as a condition of its license, and the bond protects students if the school fails to deliver the training they paid for.
The bond amount depends on the program. The rule sets $30,000 for a full school offering 160 hours or more of instruction, and a $10,000 bond for smaller programs and seminar-only training. This page is the $10,000 school bond — if your course runs 160 hours or more, you need the $30,000 bond instead, and we write that too.
The bond runs to the DMV for the benefit of enrolled students: if the school closes or breaches its obligations to past or present students, they can recover against the bond — and if the surety pays, the school repays the surety. It is not insurance for the school.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond does not have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$300 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.