Earn With DLA Academy
Three ways to make money from federally required ELDT training — none of which need you to hold your own FMCSA registration. Pick the one that matches what you already have.
Pick the one that matches what you already have
An audience, a school, or a driver roster. Each one has a different program, and none of them require you to register with FMCSA yourself.
Share a link, earn on everything they buy. $5 on a $20 course, $12.50 on a $50 bundle. No CDL needed, no approval step, no cap and no minimum payout.
Buy wholesale, set your own price. Most schools resell between $50 and $109 — that’s $32 to $91 a seat you keep. Your students claim seats through your link, with no checkout and no price on screen.
Not resale — cost control. Same-day registry submission and student support included, plus invoicing, purchase orders and completion records. Bought one driver at a time with same-day, that course is $35.
Start here if you’re not sure
| I want to… | Program | Cost to start |
|---|---|---|
| Earn on referrals with nothing upfront | Affiliate | Free |
| Sell ELDT to my own students under my own price | Reseller | $900 |
| Get my own drivers trained and documented | Fleet | $290 |
| Just complete my own ELDT training | Browse courses | $20 |
We retired the “start your own academy” course
We used to sell a $100 guide to registering your own ELDT listing. We stopped.
Through 2026 FMCSA removed thousands of providers from the Training Provider Registry — 110+ on an emergency basis in a single day in August, after 175 investigators went into 40 states in July. A registered provider has to retain assessment records, instructor documentation and lesson plans for three years under 49 CFR 380.725, produce them to FMCSA within 48 hours on request, and can be removed.
We weren’t going to keep selling something we’d stopped believing in. If you want to earn from ELDT, reselling under our registration gets you the revenue without the exposure. If you genuinely want your own listing — and some organizations should, particularly if you already run behind-the-wheel training — that’s a conversation, not a $100 course.
Free to join. Paid weekly.
The affiliate program is self-serve — join and get your link immediately. Reseller and fleet accounts are usually live within one business day.