IFTA Registration - Every truck should have a valid IFTA (fuel taxes) registration and stickers! Stickers should be displayed on the side of the truck!

IFTA is valid January 1 through December 31, but it can be used until February 28 if the account has been renewed by December 31!

IRP & IFTA Electronic credential copies - you will be allowed to carry your IRP cab card and IFTA license in an electronic image and paper IRP cab cards and IFTA licenses will no longer be required.

All US States and Canadian Provinces will be required to accept electronic images of IRP cab cards and IFTA licenses. For the first year, it is advised that you continue to carry paper credentials.

This will provide time for all involved to work out the details of this new program. When stopped by law enforcement, credentials may be shown as an electronic image on a computer, tablet, or smartphone or as a paper copy. Please understand that by choosing to provide credentials by electronic device, an officer or official may need to temporarily take possession of the device to verify the credential's validity.

Regardless of the format, the document must be accurate, accessible and readable by law enforcement.

UCR Registration - UCR (2023) registration will expire on December 31, 2023. UCR 2024 registration system is now open for payments!

MC (Motor Carrier) Authority - You can get an MC (ICC) common carrier authority in only 3 weeks! Give us a call and ask us how!

HAZMAT Registration for HAZMAT Carriers is Due June 30 If you are a hazmat carrier, your general hazmat expires on June 30, 2024, and it must be renewed before that date.

If you do not have an active hazmat registration, your company cannot transport any hazardous materials loads!

Any person or entity engaged in for-hire transportation of property, other than household goods, over the public roads in intrastate commerce in the State of Illinois must have an Illinois INTRAstate authority!!!

Please note that if you are a motor carrier and you currently have an INTRAstate authority you must have an Illinois Commerce Commission equipment lease agreement for every truck that is leased to the company.

The filing fee associated with this equipment lease agreement payable to Illinois Commerce Commission is $15 per truck.

If you have purchased a truck or a trailer, and you have not transferred the title to your name, it is very important that you do so asap! Even though the title has been signed over to your name, your name is not listed on this title until you have properly transferred it, and Secretary of State's system does not have your name listed under that VIN #.

If you happen to lose or destroy the title, you will have to have the previous owner obtain a duplicate title and reassign it to you again, which will take extra time and money.

Did you change the company you work for?

Do you know that whenever you change the company you are leased to, you must update the safety carrier listed on your IRP registration?! Failure to do so may result in your IRP registration being suspended!!!

If the carrier you were leased to goes Out-of-Service, your IRP registration will be automatically suspended until you update the safety carrier listed on your file!!!

Motor Carries, do you know that you MUST update your DOT every 2 years? Whether you have a new address, phone, email, number of trucks, trailers, drivers or everything is the same and there is nothing to update, you must actually update your DOT every 2 years!

In accordance with FMCSA MCS-150 regulation 49 CFR Part §390.19, every two years all motor carriers are required to update their MCS-150 information with the FMCSA.

This update must be completed in the appropriate month, every even or odd year, based on your DOT#, even if none of your information has changed, and regardless of when you last updated.

It is very important that the Illinois Secretary of State (IRP Section) has your current home/business address and email!!!

If at any time, the Illinois Secretary of State sends you a letter, and the letter gets returned to them, you IRP account will be temporarily suspended until the address has been updated!

The Illinois Secretary of State no longer mails IRP license plate renewal notices. Instead, the notices are now emailed to you.

Therefore, it is very important that the Illinois Secretary of State (IRP Section) has a valid email address where they can send you the renewal notice!

Renewal notices are usually emailed in the beginning of December. Make sure your email is updated before that!

Updating your address on your corporation will NOT update your address on your IRP registration even though they are both handled by Illinois Secretary of State!