DOT number

Bob Bancroft · Jan 20, 2013

The talk about trucks got me to thinking about asking about this.
Back in 2005(as I understand it, thanks to the terrorists) I was notified by the FMCSA I needed to get a DOT # for my 54000# AGR. licensed truck.
After a few tries, I finally found the "registrant only" box, and eventually got my number.
This past Sep., I am notified that that category is being eliminated. I am instructed to fill out the form as a change/update, and check interstate. If no action is taken, the number will become inactive. (Maybe that's what I should have done)!
So- I'm updated. Then just now I get notification from some state agency I've never heard of- basically telling me that for the privilege of having the DOT#, and crossing the state line, it will cost me $76/year! So- I immediately re-file with the FMCSA as INTRAstate.
Leave it to NY to find a way to tax you based on something the fed. gov't. does.
Or is this happening elsewhere?

Bob Bancroft · Jan 20, 2013

Correction;
It was NY state that originally notified me that they were adopting FMCSA rules, etc.- stating that I needed to get a DOT #.

Bret4207 · Jan 20, 2013

You can thank the State Legislature for that Bob. NY was alwyas 7-10 years behind the rest of the country as far as CMV laws went, that's why we had a non-CDL Class 3 for so long. Some bonehead in the Legislature decided to "fix that" by adopting the FMCSR in it's entirety. Stupid, but that's what happened.

I'm trying to help a friend out with his DOT# issues. I finally called and asked how to fill the form out after it being sent back 3 times. I filled it out exactly as she said and they sent it back again! I asked if there were instructions on how to fill it out someplace and she said there were but you couldn't access them!

ericlb · Jan 20, 2013

dot is nation wide now, only thing that can help on taxes i show the truck is plated, interstate regulated plates are the highest tax rate here, the lowest is weight distance plated, we run those out here, as its possible to go many hundreds of miles and still be in the same state, back east it may not be praticle as the states are small, and it might not be possible to do all your trucking within 1 state, wd tags are for 1 state only, the dot number is just another way to have to pay somebody else, so you can do all the work, one of the many reasons i sold my rig and became a company driver, by the time i payed for the fuel, the insurance, the dot, the road use tax, the mcc permit and the maintenance on the truck ect there just wasnt enough money left for me to fool with it, add in constant dot inspections and if i had had a truck payment there would have been no money at all

JD Seller · Jan 20, 2013

The federal government required all the states to adopt the Federal DOT guide lines in 2005 or lose some Federal road tax money.

This was one of the few things that the Federal government has done that I support. Until then every state had slightly different DOT rules. It made cross country hauling a nightmare. You had too many different hoops to jump through from one state to another.

I wish that they would just offer one single FEDERAL commercial truck license. It PO me to have to go through all the different tax foams and permits for each state.

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