IRP Registration
What is IRP?
The International Registration Plan (IRP) is a deal where 48 US states, Washington DC, and 10 Canadian provinces all accept one truck registration. It lets you register a commercial vehicle once, in your home (base) jurisdiction, and run legally across every member jurisdiction — with registration fees apportioned to the share of your total fleet miles driven in each. You get a single apportioned plate and a cab card, which must be carried in the vehicle.
Do I need IRP?
You need IRP plates if your truck crosses state lines to haul freight or people, AND any of these is true: it weighs over 26,000 lbs; it has 3 or more axles; or the truck plus trailer together weigh over 26,000 lbs. Run interstate without them and you risk fines, citations, and being held at a scale.
How are IRP fees calculated?
IRP fees are apportioned: each jurisdiction charges a share of full registration based on the percentage of your total miles driven there. A brand-new account has no travel history, so the base jurisdiction uses an average per-jurisdiction mileage chart to estimate the first year; at your first renewal, the actual miles from your records replace the estimate. To register you need an established place of business or residence in your base jurisdiction, your vehicle and title details, and — at renewal — your mileage records. We assemble the whole package, work out how your fees split across the states, and file it for you.
IRP vs IFTA — what's the difference?
IRP is your apportioned registration (the plate and cab card); IFTA is your quarterly fuel-tax license. Most interstate carriers need both — we can set them up together in one coordinated filing.
How long does IRP take, and can you make it faster?
That depends on your base jurisdiction, and IRP is the one filing where we will not quote you a turnaround up front: the same application moves at very different speeds from one state to the next, and right now it is the least predictable work we do. What we control, we commit to. We file the day we have your business, vehicle and title details; once the application is in, we tell you what your base state is actually running at rather than what it publishes; and we flag anything that needs you there in person and handle the rest. Renewals and add/transfers are faster than a new apportioned account.
Do you need IRP plates?
You need this if
- Your truck crosses state lines to haul freight or people — IRP is what makes one registration valid across every member jurisdiction.
- And it weighs over 26,000 lbs, or the truck and trailer together do.
- Or it has three or more axles, regardless of weight.
You do not need this if
- You only ever run inside your base state: a standard state registration already covers you, and apportioned plates would buy nothing.
- Your vehicle is under 26,000 lbs on two axles and stays under that even coupled to a trailer.
IRP is registration, not tax. Most carriers who need it also need an IFTA fuel-tax license, and the two can be set up in one filing.
IRP vs IFTA vs NY HUT vs Form 2290 — which ones apply to youWho you file IRP with
IRP is one agreement, but you file it with your base jurisdiction — a different agency in each one, on its own system. Pick yours to see who that is.
Alaska and Hawaii are not IRP members, so you cannot be based in either — and neither is Mexico. Running there is a separate arrangement.
Florida
Where you file
Florida Bureau of Commercial Vehicle and Driver Services
Before you are apportioned
A trip permit here runs 10 days and it has to be bought before you cross the line.
Highest weight you can register to
80,000 lbs
Whatever your jurisdiction’s page says, the Plan is the authority
The place-of-business requirements — a lease of at least 12 months, company signage, posted hours, a permanent employee on site 20 hours a week — are the Plan’s own, and they were tightened on 1 October 2025. Your agency applies them. It has not necessarily rewritten its own website to match, and that gap is where new accounts get denied.
Of the 49 jurisdictions above, when we read every one of them (August 2026), five published the new text, twenty-four still published only the old one, and sixteen published both at once without saying which governs. That is not a reason to distrust your agency — it is a reason to prove yourself against the Plan, which is the document they apply.
The Plan, as amended 1 October 2025 (PDF)New IRP Account & First-Time Registration
We open a new IRP account in your base jurisdiction, estimate first-year mileage the way the state expects, prepare and submit every form, and deliver your cab card and apportioned-plate details once issued. Government fees and registration taxes are billed at exact cost — no markup.
Annual Renewals
We track your IRP renewal date, match your real miles to each state, and file the renewal before the deadline — so you're never grounded by a suspended plate or a missed form on our watch.
IRP Services Offered
We handle your plates from first filing to renewal — one person to call for all of it:
- IRP New Registration: First-time apportioned registration in your chosen base state. Application prep, submission, cab card and plate delivery.
- IRP Add Vehicle: Add an additional truck to your existing IRP account. Cab card + apportioned plate details once issued.
- IRP Delete Vehicle: Remove a truck from your IRP account. Confirmation provided once processed.
- IRP Transfer Plates: Transfer existing apportioned plates from one truck to a replacement vehicle.
- IRP Replacement / Duplicate Plates: If your plate is lost, stolen, damaged or unreadable — we order the replacement and deliver.
- IRP Change Safety (USDOT/MC): We update USDOT/MC on your IRP account when your operating authority changes.
- IRP Audit Support: Documentation review, mileage verification, and audit response coordination.
- IRP + IFTA Together: Set up your apportioned plates and your IFTA fuel-tax license in one coordinated filing — the two core credentials for interstate operation.
- DMV/IRP Messenger Service: Filing package prepared and submitted in person at the DMV/IRP office; receipt provided after submission.
Base State Coverage
We file in the lower 48 states. Base jurisdiction not the same as where you live or where the truck sits? That's routine for us — we handle the paperwork and the local office. Florida, New York, Indiana, Texas and beyond: wherever your fleet is based, we know the office and the process.
Request a callback
Tell us what you need and we'll call you back — usually the same business day.