Much confusion MC#?

Continuance of Interstate commerce was used to break into states that regulate intrastate trucking. Chemicals brought by railcar or parcel tanker from somewhere out of state and placed in a storage tank farm in Phila.

Everyone thought you needed a PA PUC number for the deliveries to PA from that Phila tank farm but they figured out they did not. I think the court case went to the surpream court who ruled it was just the completion of an interstate shipment.

That was for bulk commodities. The DOT has deregualted intrastate commerce too so it should not matter.

My current company is over 40 years old and while they had a DOT number the mostly work in NJ andthe NYC commercial area and they only got an MC number and authority a couple of years ago at the insistance of a customer...Now we also dabble into PA, DE, NY and CT so we started to use what we were forced to get...

 

I just looked into this. Dock to dock within the same state without ever crossing any state line is considered Intrastate. It is regulated by state regulations, not the FMCSA, so you do not require an MC#.

I'm guessing the carrier that wants you to have the MC# is dealing with the possibility of preloaded trailers that came in from out of state, as well as dock to dock. In that case, this is interstate (the vehicle that crossed the state line being the trailer), which means the FMCSA does require you to have an MC#.

It's $300, plus whatever insurance requirements that may differ from your state (the most strict rules apply if there is a difference between the two). You will want to check the "contract carrier" box if only working under contract (using your own authority) with the one business, "common carrier" if working with multiple businesses using published tariff rates.

Keep your options open, get the MC# just in case, even if you have to wait a little until you get the $300.