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| Trip permits have nothing to do with DOT. Trip permits only address the licensing issues of running out of your home state.
For fuel permitis if you are diesel and you do this very often you might as well start filing IFTA quarterly instead of messing with permits everytime you go through.
You'll also have to file/and possibly pay for the federal heavy use tax on trucks.
DOT filing will have to be updated yearly if you are on a commercial license, you can do that on the internet.
You will also have to get on line and file and pay a PRISM tax based on the number of trucks and trailers you own. It will also have to be updated and paid yearly.
If you put commercial tags on the truck and trailer as in IRP, we were told by KDOT honcho in Kansas that if you are doing commercial work the truck is considered commercial, but if you are hauling your own farm products with a truck licensed under IRP then it is considered the same as a farm licensed truck, still need the dot, medical card etc. on semi's though. (lot of officers want to declare it a commercial truck 100% of the time)
Another thing to think of, if you have any employee's they have to have a pre employment drug test as well as a medical card and then you will also have to join a consortium that does random drug testing to satisfy that part of the regulations.
It just gets funner and funner.
Edited by Ray (ecks) 4/11/2009 23:52
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Interstate Commerce - Medical Card, Inspection, USDOT #, 24,000# GVCWR OH MY!!!
