FMCSA proposes new registration fees

Motor carriers would pay between $39 and $37,500, depending on fleet size, under a schedule of fees the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed for the Unified Carrier Registration (UCR) Plan and Agreement.

In August 2005, Congress ordered that the UCR Plan replace the Single State Registration System (SSRS) Plan by Jan 1, 2007. Because the SSRS expired on that date, FMCSA is giving the public only until June 13, 2007, to comment on the proposal so it can implement a final rule as soon as possible.

As called for in the legislation, FMCSA in 2006 appointed a 15-person board to recommend a fee schedule, which the agency has followed in drafting its proposal.

The fees would raise about $107.3 million in fiscal 2007, all but $5 million of which would go to participating states to replace SSRS revenues. The remaining $5 million goes for administrative expenses of the UCR Plan.

Visit http://dms.dot.gov/search and search Docket #27871 for a copy of the FMCSA proposal.