Department of Transportation

HONOLULU – Beginning Monday March 3, 2014, the road test portions of the Commercial Driver License (CDL) test and the Motorcycle Driver License skills test will be moving to a temporary location at the Hawaii Department of Transportation’s Kaneohe Baseyard.  The last day for the CDL road tests at the current Salt Lake Blvd. location is Wednesday, February 26, 2014.

Remaining non-road test services offered by the CDL licensing office located at  99-501 Salt Lake Blvd will continue directly across the street from Aloha Stadium’s main parking entrance (on Salt Lake Blvd).  Office hours will continue to be 6:45 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.  For a complete listing of those services please check the City & County of Honolulu’s website https://www1.honolulu.gov/csd/vehicle/faqs_cdl.htm#location.

Free parking for CDL customers at the Salt Lake Blvd. location will be available in Outer Row E of the main stadium parking lot on non-event days only.  On event days CDL customers will be required to pay event parking fees. (See below for parking map).

Services offered at the HDOT Kaneohe Baseyard location at 45-889 Pookela St., Kaneohe, include the following:

• Motorcycle Skill Test
• CDL Pre-Trip and Vehicle Inspection Test
• CDL Basic Vehicle Control Test (Off-Road Skill Test)
• CDL Road Test

This move is necessary as the Salt Lake Blvd. location will be used for construction of the Honolulu Rail Transit project.  

CDL tests at the Kaneohe site will be administered by appointment only and appointments may be scheduled in advance at the Salt Lake Blvd. CDL office.

Motorcycle skills test will be administered at the Kaneohe site on a first come first served basis with a maximum of 10 applicants at 9:00 a.m. daily beginning March 3.

• Motorcycle skills test applicants are required to register for testing at the Koolau Driver License office located in the Koolau Center at 47-388 Hui Iwa St., across from the Valley of the Temples between the hours of 7:45 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., and must report to the test site by 9:00 a.m. the same day.
   
• Upon arrival to the test site, applicants shall wait outside the entrance until directed in by an examiner.

A reminder that no CDL tests will be offered on Thursday and Friday, February 27 and 28, and testing will resume at the Kaneohe location on Monday, March 3.  Motorcycle testing will continue at the Stadium site until February 28.  For more information, please call the CDL office at 487-5534.

For information on Motorcycle Training courses on Oahu, Kauai, and Hawaii Island contact Leeward Community College at 808 – 455-0477 or https://www.ocewd.org/personal- enrichment.  For Maui County contact UH Maui College at 808 – 984-3231 or https://www.ocet.org/.

Free parking for CDL customers at the Salt Lake Blvd. location will be available in Outer Row E of the main stadium parking lot on non-event days only.  On event days CDL customers will be required to pay event parking fees.

 Beginning Monday March 3, 2014, the road test portions of the CDL test and the Motorcycle Driver License skills test will be moving to a temporary location at the HDOT Kaneohe Baseyard.