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Done-for-you trucking paperwork

Your truck is ready. Your authority isn’t.

You bought the truck and you have the CDL — but you can’t legally haul a single load until about ten filings are done, in the right order, on the right portals. We do all of them for you. You answer one intake, we file everything, and you get one message: “Your company is ready — go haul.”

Start My Authority Setup — $999 Start the one intake →
$999 flatfull setup package · no hourly billing
Filings handledUSDOT·MC Authority·BOC-3·UCR·IRP·IFTA
~208new trucking authorities granted every day in the US (FMCSA, last 30 days: 6,227)
3–4 weekstypical FMCSA processing time before an MC authority can activate
~10separate filings, portals and deadlines standing between you and your first load
1intake form from you. That’s the whole job on your side.

A parked truck still sends you bills

Every filing lives somewhere different — FMCSA, your state, the IRS, a drug-testing consortium — each with its own portal, its own deadline, and its own way to reject you. One wrong entry and your authority stalls for weeks.

Meanwhile the truck payment and the insurance bill keep running. A truck that can’t legally haul isn’t an asset — it’s an expense. That’s why drivers pay to make this someone else’s problem.

Everything filed, in the right order

The full setup package — every filing a new carrier needs before the first load, plus the ones that keep you legal after it.

Filing 01

LLC + EIN

Your business entity registered and your federal tax ID (EIN) — the foundation every other filing asks for.

Filing 02

USDOT Number

Your federal safety registration with the FMCSA — required before you operate commercially.

Filing 03

MC Authority

Your operating authority from the FMCSA. We file it, track the 3–4 week processing window daily, and confirm the day it activates. FMCSA fee: $300, at cost.

Filing 04

BOC-3

A registered process agent in every state you run — a legal requirement before authority can go active.

Filing 05

UCR

Unified Carrier Registration — the yearly registration for interstate carriers. Filed now, renewed on schedule.

Filing 06

IRP Plates

International Registration Plan apportioned plates, so one plate covers every state on your routes.

Filing 07

IFTA License

International Fuel Tax Agreement license and decals — plus the quarterly fuel-tax filings that follow.

Filing 08

Drug Testing + Driver Files

Enrollment in a DOT drug & alcohol testing consortium and compliant driver qualification (DQ) files.

Filing 09

Insurance Filing

We coordinate your commercial policy’s BMC-91 filing — the piece that actually switches your authority on. New carriers typically pay $10K–$20K/year for the policy itself.

What happens after you pay

No portals for you to figure out. Here is the sequence, in order, from payment to active authority.

1

Complete the intake

Complete the 5-minute intake below — business, operation, truck, driver and insurance details, asked once.

2

USDOT + MC filed

We file your USDOT and MC authority within 1 business day of your completed intake.

3

BOC-3 + UCR + insurance

BOC-3 and UCR are filed. You bind insurance with a licensed agency — we tell you exactly when to do it so the filing lines up.

4

Authority active

Authority active in about 3–4 weeks. We track it daily and confirm the day it activates — that’s the day you can haul.

The step that stalls almost everyone: insurance

Of the applications currently pending at the FMCSA, 22,515 out of 23,691 still have no insurance filing — and without the BMC-91 insurance filing, an authority never activates, no matter how perfect the rest of the paperwork is. In the intake below, tell us whether you already have commercial truck insurance. If you don’t, arranging that filing becomes step one of your setup — not an afterthought discovered three weeks in.

One price to start. Small money to stay legal.

Setup packages on the open market run $649–$1,999. Ours sits in the middle at $999 — and the renewals afterward are where it stays cheap.

Most popular

Full Authority Setup

$999 one-time

Everything filed for you, in sequence, until your authority is active and your truck can legally haul.

  • LLC + EIN
  • USDOT number
  • MC authority
  • BOC-3
  • UCR registration
  • IRP plate application
  • IFTA license + decals
  • Drug consortium + DQ files
  • Insurance filing coordination
  • Activation tracked daily
Start My Authority Setup — $999

Stay-Legal Renewals

$425 / truck / year

For carriers already active. We track and file the renewals that keep your authority in good standing — before anything lapses.

  • IFTA filingsQuarterly
  • UCR registrationAnnual
  • IRP renewalAnnual
  • Deadline trackingIncluded
Start Renewals — $425/yr

Just one filing?

  • BOC-3 filing$70
  • UCR registration$79
  • IFTA filing$50 / truck / quarter
  • DOT drug test$57
  • Fully managed compliancefrom $49 / driver / mo

The one intake

Five short steps — every question the filings need, asked exactly once. At the end you’ll see a full summary of your answers. Nothing is asked twice, and nothing else is asked later.

Authority setup intake

Step through it on your phone. Your answers on the final screen are the complete question set for USDOT, MC authority, BOC-3, UCR, IRP and IFTA.

Your business

The legal details every filing starts with — exactly as they should appear on your registrations.

Enter your legal business name.
Pick your business type.
Enter a phone number we can reach you on.
Must be a physical address — the FMCSA does not accept a P.O. box as your principal place of business. Enter your business address.
Enter the main contact’s name.
Enter a valid email address.

Your operation

What you haul and where you run decides which authority and registrations you need.

Pick for-hire or private.
Pick interstate or intrastate.
Select your cargo type.
List every state — your BOC-3 process agents and IRP plates are set from this list. List the states you’ll run in.

Your truck(s)

IRP and IFTA are filed per truck. Add every truck you’re putting on the road at start.

Select how many trucks you’re starting with.

Your driver(s)

Driver qualification files and drug-testing enrollment are set up per driver.

Select your CDL class.
Select how many drivers will drive under this authority.

Insurance

Your authority cannot activate without a commercial insurance filing (BMC-91). This is the question that decides your timeline.

Tell us whether you have insurance.

Your answers — the complete set

Check everything over. Use Edit on any section to change an answer.

That’s it — you answer once, we file everything

This is the complete question set. There is no second form and no follow-up questionnaire: every answer the filings ask for is on this screen.

From these answers we file: USDOT · MC authority · BOC-3 · UCR · IRP · IFTA — plus your LLC/EIN if needed, drug-testing enrollment and driver files.

This summary lives on this screen only — nothing has been sent or stored. Download a copy for your records if you want one.

Pay $999 & Start My Filing

Checkout collects your name, email and phone so the filing can begin.

Straight answers

How long until my authority is active?

FMCSA takes about 3–4 weeks after filing. We track it daily and tell you the day it goes active. It only activates once your insurance filing (BMC-91) is in place, which is why we sequence everything from day one.

Is insurance included?

No. Insurance must be placed by a licensed agency before FMCSA activates your authority. We sequence our filings around it and tell you exactly when to bind your policy, so you are not paying for coverage before you need it — and your authority is not stalled waiting on it.

What do the government fees cost?

FMCSA charges $300 for MC authority. UCR is $46 for 1–2 trucks. These pass through at cost, never marked up. Our $999 fee is for the filing work itself — government and third-party charges are separate and go to the agency or provider that charges them.

¿Hablan español?

Sí. Todo el proceso está disponible en español — la intake, las explicaciones y el seguimiento de su autoridad.

I don’t have insurance yet. Can I still start?

Yes — and you should, because the FMCSA clock and the insurance process can run at the same time. Most pending applications are stalled precisely because the insurance filing was left for last: 22,515 of 23,691 pending applications have no insurance filing. We line insurance up in parallel instead.

I only run inside Texas. Do I still need all this?

You skip the interstate pieces — no MC authority or UCR — but you still need a USDOT number, Texas intrastate registration, IRP/IFTA handled the Texas way, and compliant driver files. The intake’s “Intrastate — Texas only” option routes your setup correctly.

I don’t have an LLC or an EIN yet.

That’s the most common starting point. Pick “Not formed yet” in the intake and the entity setup and EIN come first in your filing sequence — everything else builds on them.

What does the $999 not cover?

Government and third-party costs that go to someone else: the FMCSA $300 MC fee, UCR ($46 for 1–2 trucks), your insurance premium (typically $10K–$20K/year for new carriers), state plate and registration fees, and similar pass-through charges — all at cost, never marked up. The $999 is our fee for doing every filing — no hourly billing on top.

What happens after the first year?

The filings repeat: IFTA every quarter, UCR and IRP every year. The Stay-Legal Renewals plan ($425/truck/year) covers those filings and the deadline tracking, so a missed renewal never parks your truck.