Company-paid CDL training contracts

Many trucking companies pay for CDL school in return for a promise to drive for them for a set time, often a year, with a bill for the school if you leave sooner. That is a training repayment agreement, and the state laws treat it as one.

How the laws apply (our reading)

• New York lets employers recover tuition for a license only if it is not a condition of the job. A CDL is a condition of a driving job, so a repayment note for it looks void from December 19, 2026.
• California allows tuition repayment only for a degree, so a CDL school bill is caught by the ban for contracts from January 1, 2027.
• Connecticut voids notes for training from October 1, 2026, for every employer.
• Colorado allows the reasonable cost of training beyond normal on-the-job training, shrinking month by month over two years, with a separate notice before you accepted.
• Wyoming allows it, capped by years served.

Ask for the school's invoice. A company that runs its own school can't easily show what one student cost, and the amount should never be more than it paid.

See what a prorated bill would come to.

This is general information, not legal advice. For your own contract, a lawyer or your state's labor department can tell you where you stand.