FMCSA Requiring DOT Numbers on Trucks
Owners of trucks that have only an old ICC identification number will have to start painting their carriers’ DOT number on the doors.
The marking requirement, which also includes the legal name of the motor carrier, goes into effect July 3 and affects about 75,000 trucking companies whose numbers were assigned by the former Interstate Commerce Commission.
The requirement was issued May 25 by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
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 |  Michael James - Transport Topics |
| About 75,000 carriers will have to replace their ICC numbers with DOT identification on cab doors. |
The Department of Transportation estimated industry’s cost for complying at nearly $6 million, with much of the money being spent on the time it takes to paint or stencil the numbers onto both doors of the truck cab. The average time to put a DOT number and name on the power unit is calculated at about 12 minutes. Costs to the smallest carriers, identified by DOT as having fewer than six tractors, would be about $27 total.
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