{"id":3185,"date":"2011-09-08T02:36:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T02:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2012-03-13T04:39:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T04:39:49","slug":"how-to-get-your-dot-number-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/how-to-get-your-dot-number-today\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Your DOT Number Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your company needs a U.S. Department of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">Transportation<\/a>, or USDOT, Number if you haul cargo or transport passengers across state lines. Some states require all commercial motor vehicles to acquire a USDOT Number. Companies receiving a number for the first time are enrolled in the <a href=\"http:\/\/freightbrokerscourse.com\/services\/license-filing-service\/\">Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration<\/a>, or FMCSA, New Entrant Safety Assurance Program. The FMCSA program requires passing a safety audit and maintaining good roadside safety performance. Your <a href=\"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/what-is-an-intrastate-dot-number-for\/\">USDOT Number <\/a>acts a unique identification number for government safety inspections, audits, investigations and reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Register with the FMCSA online at its website. Answer a series of questions about your company to determine which form you need to complete. Skip online registration if you want to submit your application by mail.<\/p>\n<p>Download and complete either the MCS-150 or MCS-150B form. Motor carriers requiring a Hazardous Materials (HM) Safety Permit need to complete the MCS-150B form. If you don&#8217;t need a HM Safety Permit, complete the MCS-150 form. These forms can also be acquired from your local FMCSA field office. The MCS-150 form requires information about your drivers, the number of vehicles that you operate, total mileage and information about the cargo you transport.<\/p>\n<p>Print the form to keep a record for your company or if you want to submit the form by mail.<\/p>\n<p>Submit the application form on the FMCSA website. FMCSA will immediately inform you of whether your application is approved. Successful applications immediately receive a USDOT Number. Alternately, you can mail the application form to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Mailed applications take an average of 4 weeks to 6 weeks to process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your company needs a U.S. Department of Transportation, or USDOT, Number if you haul cargo or transport passengers across state lines. Some states require all commercial motor vehicles to acquire a USDOT Number. Companies receiving a number for the first time are enrolled in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, or FMCSA, New Entrant Safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[16,129,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4303,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/4303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}