Andrius Pletniovas: The Founder Behind Onboard by CDL Agency

MUNDELEIN, Ill. — Andrius Pletniovas, also known as Andrius Digital, is the founder behind Onboard by CDL Agency, an existing software platform built around truck driver recruiting. Through CDL Agency, the Mundelein-based recruiting and marketing company he founded, Pletniovas brings together recruiter screening and software that follows a driver from submission through the hiring process.

His approach treats the connection between a driver and a carrier as work that needs to be managed. A driver packet must reach the right person. A carrier needs a way to respond. Recruiters need to know what has happened and what comes next. Onboard puts those steps into a shared process.

The result is a concrete expression of Pletniovas’s truck driver brokerage concept: people handle the recruiting relationship, while software organizes the information and decisions behind it.

The founder behind the platform

Andrius Digital is based in Miami, Florida. CDL Agency, the company he founded, is headquartered in Mundelein, Illinois.

Pletniovas’s work at CDL Agency connects two parts of the same hiring problem: finding drivers and managing what happens after a potential match has been identified.

CDL Agency’s recruiters phone-screen drivers before a carrier sees them. Onboard supports the next stage by organizing the submission and the carrier’s response. That connection between the recruiting service and its software is central to the company’s approach.

For a carrier, the distinction matters. Receiving an inquiry is different from reviewing a candidate with relevant experience and documents. For the recruiting team, sending a submission is different from knowing whether it has been approved or needs more information. Pletniovas has built Onboard around that continuing exchange.

Onboard is built around actual hiring steps

Onboard by CDL Agency is an invite-only driver-submission platform built and run by the company. It is already built, with a defined process for presenting drivers and following hiring milestones.

A submission contains a driver packet with CDL class, endorsements, experience and documents. Carriers receive a secure, single-use link and can approve, request more information or decline directly from their inbox, without creating an account.

The hiring pipeline records timestamps as a candidate moves through submission, approval, drug-test scheduling, cleared results, flight booking and hire. Those stages give the recruiting team and carrier a common way to follow progress. They describe the platform’s workflow, rather than a promise that every candidate will be hired or require travel.

Onboard also maintains one driver identity across the platform to prevent duplicate submissions. The emphasis is on keeping the candidate’s information and progress connected as the hiring conversation develops.

Onboard’s submission view. Product demonstration with sample records; image courtesy of CDL Agency.

What the brokerage approach means

Pletniovas describes his direction as a truck driver brokerage model: coordinating the recruiting relationship between drivers and carriers through a combination of people and software.

In this context, brokerage refers to driver recruiting and placement. The service centers on understanding the candidate, presenting information to a carrier and coordinating the decisions that follow. The carrier reviews the submission and decides whether to proceed.

CDL Agency’s stated positioning is recruiting rather than lead reselling. Recruiters screen and place drivers; Onboard gives that work a structured submission and hiring process.

Why carrier decisions need a clear process

A carrier may be ready to approve a candidate, need another document or decide the position is not a fit. Those are different outcomes, and each calls for a different next step.

Onboard makes those responses part of the submission process. A request for information can be distinguished from an approval, and a recruiting team can follow the candidate beyond the initial introduction. A recorded hiring stage provides context for the next conversation.

Carrier review of a demonstration driver packet. Documents and personal details shown are fictional samples; image courtesy of CDL Agency.

The software does not turn every introduction into a hire. Its role is to organize the information and workflow around the decision. For readers looking for more product detail, our coverage of CDL Agency’s Onboard platform explains the driver-submission model.

Software and recruiting under one company

Pletniovas’s founder story is rooted in this combination of a recruiting business and its own software. CDL Agency offers managed recruiting, while Onboard supports the submission and hiring workflow behind it.

The company is headquartered in Mundelein, Illinois, and serves Chicagoland carriers and fleets nationwide. Its Chicago truck driver recruiting service connects the platform’s operational focus to the local carrier market.

For Pletniovas, Onboard is the product behind that approach: an existing system for organizing driver information, collecting carrier decisions and following the path toward a hire.

Learn more about Onboard

Carriers interested in the platform can explore Onboard or contact CDL Agency to discuss their recruiting needs and access. Useful starting points include the positions being filled, equipment, lanes and the people responsible for reviewing driver submissions.

This company profile draws on CDL Agency’s company and product information and founder-provided context.