Florida Apportioned plates

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  1. crackinwise

    crackinwise Medium Load Member

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    Do you know what the 48 state fees were..Also do they pro rate the fee if it mid year or do the plates renew at different times?
     
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  3. fortycalglock

    fortycalglock Road Train Member

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    FL will be paid in full as they give you a year from the month they are issued in.
     
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  4. coalminer

    coalminer Bobtail Member

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    Ok, here is a question for you guys, I live in Florida, drive a straight truck with a GVW of 25,900 and run for a carrier out of Cleveland OH. Right now I just have a regular Florida registration, but would like to update to apportioned plates so I don't have to pay Arizona $69 for monthly permits or Colorado $60 permits for 72 hours (which I should not have to pay anyway as my truck does not weigh more than 16,000 pounds empty).

    I don't have my own DOT number right now since I don't run under my own authority, and I have read that the DOT does not issue numbers for "vehicle registrant only"

    So my question is for any other owner/operators that live in Florida and run for out of state carriers, did you have to get your own DOT number, or did you just use the one for the company that you run for?
     
  5. VagabondTrucker

    VagabondTrucker Light Load Member

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    You have to have the companies dot number and ein number....if that is who is responsible for safety
     
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  6. coalminer

    coalminer Bobtail Member

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    Thanks, that was all I thought I needed but the instructions are not very clear. I'm going to drive down to st pete on the 1st and see if I can get this all done.
     
  7. VagabondTrucker

    VagabondTrucker Light Load Member

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    I did mine in tallahassee and it wasnt too bad. If you have never gotten them before, you have to pay by cash, credit card, or certified check in the exact amount....no personal checks for the first two years. Also make sure your insurance policy has a declarations page that lists all your truck info and has the state of florida highway safety dept with their address on it. Also you have to have two or three pieces of official id with your address. Lastly you have to have your lease agreement with your full name, all truck info, and signed by company. I called ahead and talked to some ppl in the office who gave me a list of everything i needed right down to what addresses and names needed to be where. I would recommend doing that because if you dont have even one piece of info right, you wasted a trip. Good luck!
     
  8. fortycalglock

    fortycalglock Road Train Member

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    The instructions aren't clear because there were some changes a couple years back. About 13 years ago, DOT had this bright idea to require every o/o to have a DOT number. If they were leased to someone, they would be labeled "registrant only". You had to have that DOT number to get a plate. Then a couple years ago, DOT announced out of the blue that a "registrant only" DOT number was no longer needed, nor issued, and any listed that way would be labeled inactive. The state's DMV were slow to catch up as usual.
     
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