How to List Your CDL and Endorsements on a Resume

The one rule

Never list a class, an endorsement or a credential you do not currently hold. Carriers verify against your motor vehicle record before you are hired. This is not a rule about honesty in the abstract — it is a rule about a hiring process that will check.

That includes endorsements that have lapsed. If it is not on your license today, it is not on your resume today.

Where the license block goes

Directly under your professional summary, before your skills and well before your work history. It is the first hard filter a recruiter applies, and a resume that buries it in a job bullet gets set aside.

The format

Give it a heading of its own — "CDL License & Endorsements" — and use a plain bulleted list:

• CDL Class A — Texas
• HazMat (H) Endorsement
• Tanker (N) Endorsement
• Doubles/Triples (T) Endorsement
• TWIC Card
• License valid through March 2029

Name and code, both

Requisitions are inconsistent. One says "HazMat", another says "H endorsement", a third says "Hazardous Materials". Writing HazMat (H) Endorsement covers all three at once and costs you nothing.

The full set:

• H — HazMat
• N — Tanker
• X — Tanker + HazMat combined
• T — Doubles/Triples
• P — Passenger
• S — School Bus

Air brake is a certification rather than a lettered endorsement, but it is worth a line on a Class B resume.

TWIC is not an endorsement — list it anyway

A Transportation Worker Identification Credential is a TSA card, not a CDL endorsement. It belongs in the same block because port, rail and terminal customers screen for it exactly the same way.

The transmission restriction

If you tested in an automatic, your CDL carries an automatic restriction and some jobs are closed to you. A carrier finds this out at orientation, so there is nothing to gain by omitting it.

If you tested in a manual and have no restriction, that is worth saying explicitly — a growing share of new drivers are automatic-restricted, and manual-capable drivers are worth more to some fleets.

Repeat the important ones

Your strongest endorsement should appear in three places:

1. The headline, if it is central to the job you want
2. The license block
3. The skills list, as the capability it implies — "HazMat Transportation" rather than the endorsement letter

That is not padding. It is how a resume gets matched by both a human and by software.

If you hold a permit

A Commercial Learner's Permit is worth stating plainly, with the class you are testing for. Carriers with training programs recruit permit holders directly, and being clear about where you are saves everyone a wasted conversation.

If you are a new graduate

Same block, same format, and put your CDL training section immediately after it. See the CDL graduate resume guide for how to present the training itself.