IRP Estimations

I'll find out soon if they change it.

I dont have Canada on mine. Thus the xxxxx. At bottom

 

May be even less, especially once you establish some lanes. My last renewal for 30 states, roughly east of I-35 and south of NY was $1,150 per truck. I think I still had 3 or 4 from the estimated chart so I could keep them on just in case. They were at the edge of our normal area, so the mileage was low and probably only added around $20 to the total.

I expect our IRP to increase a little this coming renewal as our favored routes shifted from low tax southern states to higher tax mid Atlantic states. The updated actual miles (re-using my IFTA workbooks) I enter on the renewal application will shift that apportionment.

 

FL is very "generous" with their portion of the estimated miles and they aren't cheap.
Something the OP HAS to do is make a trip sheet for every load with beginning and ending odometer readings for the trip. Failure to do this will allow the auditor to fine you by forfeiting your IRP fees and decreasing your IFTA MPG, resulting in fuel tax, penalties and interest from the audit period. Can you tell I learned the $8,000 way?

 

Just get a truck Garmin GPS. It records all miles for all states and generates a spreadsheet format at the end of every quarter

 

When he gets audited, he'll be audited out of the same office I was. Just trying to give him a heads up. I don't really think they'll accept that as the final word either without odometer readings. Have you been through an IRP/IFTA audit?

 

Is this Florida only or nationwide?

 

I passed an audit in Georgia a few months ago using GPS generated IFTA reports. When I do IFTA, I pull in an export from QuickBooks with my fuel detail and do miles and fuel in the same file. The auditor accepted those spreadsheets as final, although I do keep paper receipts filed for backup. Unless FL is just more strict with it, they're really just looking for evidence of fraud, not precision. As long as your logbook trips line up with your IFTA trips, and those check out against mapping software mileage, you're good. At least that's what my auditor told me.