OR CDL third party tester bonds.
$300. Five minutes.
An Oregon third-party CDL tester — a business approved to give commercial driver skills tests — must provide a $10,000 surety bond to DMV, under OAR Chapter 735, Division 60. Ours is $300 flat — 3% of the bond amount, the same for every tester. Five-minute application, no credit check on this bond.
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Three steps. One sitting.
License bonds are among the simplest things 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
Fixed bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Provide it to DMV
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to provide to Oregon DMV as part of your third-party CDL tester contract. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$10,000 bond × 3% = $300, 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
Oregon DMV (part of ODOT) runs a third-party CDL testing program: it authorizes approved businesses to administer the commercial driver license skills test on its behalf. To qualify as a third-party tester, a business must provide DMV a $10,000 surety bond under OAR Chapter 735, Division 60.
The bond is an integrity guarantee: it protects DMV and the public against losses from fraudulent or improper CDL testing — for example, passing a driver who didn't earn it. It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety, and the State of Oregon (the obligee).
Note that units of local government and state agencies are exempt from the bond requirement — it applies to private third-party testers. The bond must stay active for your tester contract, so we track it and notify you 60 and 30 days out. It is not insurance for you: if the surety pays, you repay the surety.
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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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$300 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.