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DOT requirements for trucking companies
Every rule the wizard checks. Most trucks need only some of them.
Your company
- USDOT number
- Every trucking company that crosses state lines needs one. FMCSA charges nothing.
- MC number (operating authority)
- Required to haul most freight for pay across state lines.
- BOC-3 (process agents)
- FMCSA will not activate your authority without it.
- Insurance filed with FMCSA
- Your insurance company files it. Your authority stays inactive until it does.
- 2027 UCR registration
- Due before January 1, every year. $55 for 1–2 trucks.
- MCS-150 updated in the last 2 years
- FMCSA can deactivate your USDOT number when it is overdue.
- PHMSA hazmat registration
- Required every year to haul placarded loads.
Your drivers
- Random drug and alcohol testing (consortium)
- Every CDL driver must be in a random testing pool.
- FMCSA Clearinghouse account
- Register, then check each CDL driver’s record every year.
- Pre-employment DOT drug test
- Each CDL driver needs a negative result before the first trip.
- Driver qualification file for each driver
- Application, medical card, driving record and yearly review, kept together.
- Driving record (MVR) from the last 12 months
- Pull and review each driver’s record every year.
- Supervisor drug and alcohol training
- Anyone who supervises CDL drivers needs 2 hours of training, once.
- Hazmat training from the last 3 years
- Everyone who handles or hauls hazmat needs it every 3 years.
Your trucks
- Annual DOT inspection
- Every truck and trailer, once a year. Keep the report in the truck.
- ELD (electronic logbook)
- Required unless you stay within 150 air miles or your engine is older than 2000.
- IFTA license and decals
- For trucks over 26,000 lb that cross state lines.
- Apportioned (IRP) plates
- Same trucks as IFTA. Your home state issues them.
- Form 2290 (heavy vehicle use tax)
- Paid to the IRS every year for trucks of 55,000 lb or more.
Rules: 49 CFR Parts 107, 172, 365, 366, 382, 387, 390, 391, 395 and 396; the UCR Plan; IFTA; IRP; IRS Form 2290. Not legal advice. Evergreen Comply is not affiliated with FMCSA.