California Commercial Driver License (CDL) Application

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and flow and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-01

The document was derived from and cross-checked against the official sources below, but the full field-by-field comparison the practice requires (manual-source-review-v1 → Procedure step 2) has not yet been completed and recorded against the live eDL 44C online application screens. It therefore remains draft, not verified.

Sources examined

• Document (id, version): us/ca/dmv/commercial-drivers-license-application / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.1.0
• Authority: California Department of Motor Vehicles (CA DMV)
• Primary source URL: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/commercial-driver-licenses-cdl/
• Official form ref: DL 44C / eDL 44C (Commercial Driver License Application)
• Supporting sources (federal enumerations incorporated by California's program):
  • CA DMV Commercial Driver Handbook, Section 1 (Introduction) — https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/handbook/commercial-driver-handbook/section-1-introduction/
  • CA DMV CDL Classes & Certifications — https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/commercial-driver-licenses-cdl/commercial-driver-license-classes-certifications/
  • 49 CFR § 383.153 (endorsement codes H/N/P/S/T/X, restriction codes incl. K — intrastate only) — https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/383.153
  • 49 CFR § 383.71 / § 391.11 (four self-certification categories: non-excepted interstate, excepted interstate, non-excepted intrastate, excepted intrastate)
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-01 (pages confirmed live at authoring time)
• Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (initial authoring source-review)

What was confirmed against the source

| Source element | Field(s) | |---|---| | Applicant must already hold a valid CA noncommercial Class C licence before a CLP is issued | californiaDriverLicenseNumber | | Minimum age 18 (intrastate) / 21 (interstate, hazmat, or hazmat/tank endorsements) | dateOfBirth (rule recorded in its description) | | Identity confirmed with name, date of birth, SSN (original SS card for a first CDL) | lastName/firstName/middleName, dateOfBirth, socialSecurityNumber | | Residence address, matched to a residency document for a first CA licence/ID | residenceAddress* | | CDL classes A/B/C and their vehicle-weight/passenger/hazmat definitions | cdlClassRequested | | Endorsement codes H, N, P, S, T (49 CFR 383.153) and the combined-X rule when both H and N are requested | endorsementHazardousMaterials, endorsementTankVehicle, endorsementPassenger, endorsementSchoolBus, endorsementDoubleTriple | | Four self-certification categories (49 CFR 383.71) and the intrastate-only K restriction DMV applies to non_excepted_intrastate | selfCertifiedCommerceType | | A 10 Year History Record Check (DL 939) is required if licensed elsewhere in the last 10 years | licensedInOtherJurisdictionLast10Years | | A Medical Examiner's Certificate (MEC) from an MCSA-5875/5876 exam (FMCSA National Registry examiner, valid 2 years) is required for the two non-excepted categories | medicalExaminerCertificateExpirationDate |

Conditional rules (not encoded structurally in v0.1)

Recorded in field descriptions, not encoded (v0.1 has no conditional constraint mechanism — tracked in GSP-0004):

• medicalExaminerCertificateExpirationDate is only required in practice when selfCertifiedCommerceType is non_excepted_interstate or non_excepted_intrastate; it is kept required: true in this v0.1 document (flat/linear model) with the exemption stated in its description.
• endorsementHazardousMaterials and endorsementTankVehicle both true results in DMV issuing the combined X endorsement rather than separate H and N endorsements; this substitution is descriptive only and not modeled as a distinct field.
• The age threshold (21 for interstate/hazmat) is a condition on dateOfBirth combined with selfCertifiedCommerceType and the hazmat endorsement, recorded in dateOfBirth's description rather than enforced.

What is NOT yet independently verified

• The exact field order, labels, and screen flow of the live eDL 44C online application were not captured screen-by-screen; sourceRef annotations are indicative, derived from the public CDL overview and handbook pages.
• This document models only the CLP/CDL application intake (DL 44C). The subsequent knowledge/skills testing, the 14-day CLP-to-skills-test waiting period, Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT) provider verification, and CDL issuance itself are out of scope for this document and are not modeled here.
• Fees (currently referenced as $73 for Class A/B and $43 for Class C in secondary sources, subject to periodic legislative change) are intentionally not encoded.
• The CA DL-number pattern ([A-Z][0-9]{7}) is the established California format, not a citation of a published DMV validation rule.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance to status: verified, a reviewer applies manual-source-review-v1 (Procedure step 2 field-by-field against the live eDL 44C flow, step 3 flow), confirms the source is authoritative, resolves any discrepancy by shipping a new schema version (immutability — VERSIONING §3, practice Procedure step 5), and records the outcome here plus sets status: verified with a current verification.lastVerifiedAt/nextReviewBy.

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-01 (6 months): federal CDL/ELDT rules and CA DMV's online-application flow change periodically. Re-check the sources on or before that date and on any source.url change.