Effective May 15, 2014 the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles will no longer issue a
10-day temporary license document upon successful completion of a Commercial Driver License skills test, in order to comply with the Federal self-certification and medical certification requirements for commercial drivers.

Instead, commercial drivers will be issued a receipt indicating they must wait 1 business day before visiting a Motor Vehicles office in order to obtain a Commercial Driver’s License document.

You must have a version number of 7.0 or later of Adobe Acrobat Reader® installed on your computer to use these documents.  The latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader® is free at the Adobe web site [1]. 

The sections of this manual are available in English or in Spanish.  The table below matches the sections to the knowledge and skills tests that you must pass to receive a Commercial Driver License (CDL) in the correct Class with the required endorsements.  To get the section you want to study, click on the name of the section, in either English or Spanish, in the column on the left. (Many of these files are very large and can take a long time to download.) To test your knowledge of information covered in the Commercial Driver's Manual, see the list of study questions [2].