Your Website Is Your Admissions Department
CDL school website hosting, staff and instructor email and managed IT for CDL, trade and vocational schools — on servers we own in the United States.
CDL School Website: The Short Answer
A trade or CDL school lives or dies on enrollment, and for most schools the website is the first and sometimes only contact a prospective student has. We build and host each CDL school website to convert enquiries, provide staff and instructor email from $1.95 per user a month, and structure the disclosure pages your accreditor expects — without replacing the student records system you already run.
Every CDL school website should make it easy for students to confirm a program is legitimate; the FMCSA’s Training Provider Registry lists registered entry-level driver training providers. We build the CDL school website so programs, tuition and registry details are easy to find on a phone.
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The site builder with hosting and SSL, one Hub for Teams mailbox on your own domain, and the domain itself free for the first year — in one annual plan instead of three separate decisions.
Built To Enroll
Program pages that answer the real questions
How long, how much, what license or certification at the end, what financing exists, when the next class starts, and who hires graduates. Most school sites answer two of those six.
Enquiry forms that reach an advisor fast
A prospective student comparing three schools calls the one that responds first. Forms that route to a person, on a phone, immediately — not into an inbox checked on Thursdays.
Built for a phone
This audience is overwhelmingly on mobile, often on a break at their current job. A site that is slow or hard to use on a phone is losing enrollments you will never know about.
- The disclosures have to be findable Accrediting bodies expect published information about programs, costs, completion and outcomes, in a place a prospective student can actually locate. Buried in a PDF linked from the footer does not meet the spirit of it.
- Keep them current without calling a developer Disclosure figures change annually. Built so your staff can update them, with a change history, rather than emailing a web person every time a number moves.
- Accessible as well as published Published information that a screen reader cannot navigate is a problem in both directions. We build to WCAG 2.1 AA as a default rather than as an extra.
Disclosures And Accreditor Expectations
We are not your compliance counsel, and this is not legal advice. But the pages exist and they need to be built properly.
Staff, Instructors And The Office
Email on the school domain
Admissions advisors, instructors, examiners, financial staff and the owner. Liberation Email from $1.95 per user a month, Mail Pro at $7.95.
Student records where they belong
Keep your student information system. What we do is stop transcripts, enrollment agreements and identity documents from living as email attachments — Hub for Teams at $7.49 per user a month.
The yard, the classroom and the office
CDL schools in particular run networks across a yard, a classroom and an office with very different requirements. Wi-Fi, cameras, simulators and backups, scoped for what is actually there.
- Same industry, same buyers We already serve trucking and logistics companies, and the two are connected: carriers sponsor students, schools place graduates, and both are targeted by the same email fraud.
- Carrier partnerships on your site Sponsored training, tuition reimbursement and hiring partner pages are among the most persuasive content a CDL school can publish, and among the least often done well.
- Email authentication, because of who you talk to Schools exchange student and payment information with carriers and financing companies. Correct SPF, DKIM and DMARC is a low-cost protection against someone impersonating your admissions office.
Where CDL Schools Sit Next To Trucking
Start Today — Pick What You Need
Order any of these in a few minutes, or read the full details first. Pricing is published up front, so you do not need a quote to see what it costs.
Website Builder
$10.99/monthBuild the site yourself from a template. Hosting, SSL and a free domain on annual billing are included.
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From $1.95/user/monthEmail on your own domain instead of a free address, with calendar, contacts and appointments.
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From $7.49/user/monthEmail, calendar, files, chat and video for the whole team in one workspace on your own domain.
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From $7.99/monthHost a site you already have. SSL, backups and cPanel included. $7.99 is the three-year rate, $14.99 month to month.
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Start it in a few minutesPut the domain in the company name, where a past web guy or an ex-employee cannot hold it hostage.
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- Liberation Email from $1.95 per user/mo; Mail Pro $7.95 per user/mo
- Hub for Teams $7.49 per user/mo for enrollment agreements and transcripts
- Website Builder $10.99/mo at the budget end, or an enrollment-focused built site priced as a project
- Liberation Campaign send-based from $10/mo for 10,000 emails — prospect follow-up and alumni
- CodeGuard encrypted off-site backups from $2.09/mo; SiteLock from $14.99/mo
- Yard, classroom and office networking scoped per campus
What It Costs
Trade, CDL & Vocational Schools FAQs
Do we have to change our student records system?
No. Keep it. We host the website, the email, the document exchange and the network around it.
Can you build our disclosure pages?
Yes — built so they are findable, accessible and updatable by your staff. What we will not do is tell you what your accreditor requires; that is between you, them and your counsel. We build what you need to publish.
How quickly should we respond to an enquiry?
Faster than the school the student is also calling. That is the whole game in this vertical, and it is mostly a routing and notification problem rather than a marketing one.
Can you handle a network across a yard and a classroom?
Yes. CDL schools in particular have an unusual footprint — office, classroom, yard, simulators and cameras — and it needs designing rather than extending with another access point.
Do you work with the carriers who sponsor our students?
We serve trucking and logistics companies as a separate vertical, so the industry is familiar. Sponsored training and hiring partner pages are usually the highest-converting content on a CDL school site.
What about prospect follow-up email?
Billed on emails sent rather than list size, which suits a school holding a large list of past enquiries it mails occasionally. From $10 a month for 10,000 emails.
What does a CDL school website need?
A CDL school website needs program pages that answer students’ real questions, enquiry forms that reach an advisor fast, a layout built for phones and the disclosure pages your accreditor expects. Staff and instructor email starts at $1.95 per user a month.
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Start With Your Enquiry Flow
Show us what happens when someone fills in your form today. That is usually where the enrollments are leaking, and it is the cheapest thing to fix.
Prospective students check two things, and one of them is not your design
They check whether the programme leads to the licence or certification they want, and they check whether you have dates they can actually attend. A CDL or trade school site that buries the schedule, or shows last term’s dates, loses enquiries no amount of design recovers. Current dates and an honest statement of what the programme qualifies you for do more than anything else on the page.
Enrolment paperwork is where the data risk sits. Applications collect dates of birth, driving records, sometimes medical certification and financial information, and it tends to arrive by whatever route the applicant finds — email attachment, photograph, a form that lands in one person’s inbox. Decide where that information is supposed to live, and make sure it does not stay in the mailbox it arrived in.
If the school participates in federal student aid, a different and heavier set of obligations applies to student records and to the systems holding them. Establish whether that is you before choosing tools, because it narrows the options considerably.
On the ordinary side: the site has to work on a phone, the enquiry has to reach someone the same day, and the domain should be in the school’s name. Test the enquiry path end to end rather than assuming it works.
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