Signing on with a carrier/ apportioned plates

Depends on how your ICA is written. Might be to your advantage to file your own IFTA, but you also have to keep track of your mileage by state, seperated between toll and non-toll roads.

During my lease with ATS, the company kept track of the IFTA on a per truck basis, rather than just averaging it out on a fleet basis. Blair (P&S lease-o/o carrier) does the average I think. And you can get an account with just the plate, don't need your authority first.

 

That's how I ran with both Kaplan and ATS. But they tracked my truck seperate from other trucks, so I only paid where and what I owed. Some bigger fleets will just throw together an average of the entire fleet (company and O/O), and you pay based on that average. So if the fleet averages high miles in a more expensive state while YOU stay in predominantly cheaper states, you can end up paying IFTA to states you never visit. It's easier on the carrier, but more expensive on you as a contractor. Pretty sure that's how Prime and Knight/Swift do it.

 

Then that is a good deal for $1500 per year.