Privacy Policy
CDL Pathway privacy policy for analytics, click tracking, and information submitted through site forms.
Privacy policy
We may collect information you choose to submit through site forms, along with the source page, consent version, and timestamp.
We use this information to provide requested CDL resources, understand user demand by state, improve content, and track conversions.
Tracking
The site tracks affiliate and job clicks by partner/provider, source page, keyword, location, timestamp, and anonymous session ID. We may also use analytics and webmaster tools to understand traffic and improve the site.
Form use
Site forms are intended to help us understand what CDL resources users need by state and interest. We avoid asking for sensitive medical, legal, financial, or government-identification details through general site forms.
Your choices
Do not submit sensitive medical, legal, or financial details through general forms.
How this site makes money (and how it doesn't)
Most CDL sites are just sign-up forms for schools that pay them to send you. This one's different. No school pays us to be listed or to be called the best. We may earn from ads, from clearly labeled affiliate links, or by connecting you with a school or job partner when you ask us to, but never from a paid ranking. We start from the official rules, explain in plain words what they mean for your wallet, and point out the traps before you sign anything.
Everything here comes from official sources: your state's licensing office, the federal trucking agency (FMCSA), the government list of approved schools, and federal job and pay data. Not whatever a school brags about itself.
No school pays to be listed here, and none pays for a ranking. We show you the real price, whether grads actually got hired and what they made, the complaints on file, and the fine print in the contract. Then you decide.
Our calculators plan for a rough first year: you start the job late, you drive fewer miles at first, you're paying back the loan, the truck sits during slow weeks, and you might pay to retake a test. That's the math the recruiter's flyer skips.
We check the stuff that quietly costs people money: the DOT health exam, the required training (ELDT), the road tests, whether you can get a refund, what you'd owe if you quit, and whether the 'guaranteed job' is real.