You must have to filing application with the proper government agency. Earlier all the applications procedure is control by the Federal Highway Administration (FHA) for a short period of time, now operate under the two special agencies below the USDOT that perform the continue to licensing procedure, insurance and tariff review functions that were formerly performed by the ICC. To get Interstate authority you do not require former skill. The role and responsibility of the USDOT authority is great. You must get DOT number first to allow inter-state operation.
The truck operator need ICC number or now called MC number to move across the stateline. The DOT number is require to operate within the state while the MC Number is require to operate in across the inter-state line.
The inter-state license procedure requires $500 fees and the licensing procedure takes at lease six weeks. The procedure involves fees of the filing applications to the federal government for licensing.
There are some regulations to operate in the inter-state line such as the truck operator who operates Commercial Vehicle for interstate or trans-state operation must need USDOT Number compulsory for the operation. It excludes private vehicles, exempted vehicles, hire vehicles and passenger vehicles. The vehicles that move with dangerous good must not be allowed to move inter-state.
