need help with new entrant program

first off you have to use the DOT number for the company you wil be leased to, you have to run under some ones MC number or you will get shut down. You can't run with just a DOT #
And last but not leasst there is no new entrant audit without applying for ypur authority, what you a talking about doing is called out law trucking which can't be done very long this day and time at all.

 

New-Entrant Program
All first-time carrier applicants for a USDOT Number will be automatically enrolled in the FMCSA New Entrant Safety Assurance Program. This program requires new entrants to pass a safety audit and maintain acceptable roadside safety performance over an initial 18-month period before they are given permanent registration status. In most cases, companies operating exclusively as brokers or non-vehicle-operating shippers or freight forwarders do not need to obtain a USDOT Number.

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/registration-licensing/registration-USDOT.htm

 

Here's what I'm not understanding here. You applied for a dot number. Your going to pull somebody else's trailer. The only way you can cross state lines with ONLY a dot number is if your hauling exempt goods. If you haul product that isn't exempt you HAVE to EITHER haul the goods that are not exempt intrastate (in state only) or file for operating authority (mc number.) Its simple as that. Otherwise lease to a carrier. I'd call ooida and explain exactly what you want to do to their guys in authority and they can tell you what you need.

 

The DOT is/has eliminated the 'registrant only' DOT numbers and is now making owner operators register w/ their carrier's DOT and TIN numbers to get plates.

OP does not need a DOT number to pull another's trailer under the carrier's authority.

 

If you are going to be a new entrant you will have to fill out an application for yourself plus the additional paperwork required in the Driver Qualification File. This doesn't matter if you're the owner of the company, driver, dispatch, and every other position in the company.

As for drug testing, you need to take a pre-employment drug test before you start driving, and then enroll yourself in a DOT Regulated Random Drug Program (If you are the only driver you should enroll yourself into a drug consortium for the random testing).

As for the Annual Review, part of the Driver Qualification File requires that you have run an MVR on yourself within 30 days of your hire date, and then once a year on the anniversary of your hire date (or within 30 days of that date).

If you are indeed a new entrant and need other information please feel free to PM me. Also, when the DOT notifies you that they are coming for a new entrant audit they will send you a checklist of the things that they want you to have.