IRP Wants Last Few Wrinkles Ironed Out by Member States
Five states other than the main culprit, California, need to make changes to their truck registration rules or risk ending up on the wrong side of the International Registration Plan.
Trucking companies use IRP to register their vehicles and pay one lump-sum fee for all the states in which they operate. IRP apportions the registration fees to the 48 contiguous United States, the District of Columbia and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchwan. For these jurisdictions to participate in IRP’s reciprocity, they adjusted their original registration requirements to conform with the base-state standards set by IRP. Some states were allowed exceptions, however, when they joined the compact.
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Washington and Wyoming also have their own peculiar requirements, but only Indiana is expected to bring its system into full conformity by IRP’s deadline of Jan. 1, 2001.
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IRP’s board voted last year to eliminate many of these differences, mainly to rid other states of the time-consuming task of collecting separate California fees for trailers.
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