Independant O/O IRP renewal question on 2nd yr estimates

I think you are confusing the terms. When they say "estimating", that is when you have no miles for the reporting period at all.

Once you have miles for a reporting period, those miles are used to determine what your base plate will be. If you are wanting to add a state that you have no miles in, some states call that "buying" a state. Those states go above and beyond your base state.

I have talked to drivers that do every trick in the book so that they can just keep estimating. It is getting harder and harder to do with more states using electronic reporting for IFTA. It is getting very easy to compare IFTA reporting to what you are putting down for base plates.

 

The best thing to do is put the states on you want. And keep them.

If you drop them and go back to add them, then you will pay a higher rate for them.

That information was given to me directly from the state.

It's cheaper in the long run to pay for them on the IRP than it is to get trip permits or put them back on. When you sit and look at your form, there are amounts you multiply your mileages by. That's what determines what your IRP cost is per state. Unless it's states like NM, OR, KY, NY or another state that has separate registration of one form or another.

 

Well imagine that, someone in a state IRP office that doesn't know what they are talking about.

If you have no miles in a state for a specific reporting period it will cost the same to keep that state on as it would if you where adding it. It is all based on the actual miles that you ran for the period. Any additional states get added at the same rate regardless.

Sorry, just spend most of the day at TN IRP on Thursday and have to be back on Monday. I call the manager OZ because she never came out of her office to talk to me. When I said if she just came out to speak with me we could fix this in a couple minutes I was told she if very busy. Really?!? Because this little trip for me was just interrupting my vacation and I have nothing important that needs to be done (like posting on TTR).

 

Since you probably stepped to the window with all businesslike with your paperwork ready, they marked you as a troublemaker from the get-go.

Now don't take a bath or shave this weekend and show up on Monday with an old fuel receipt and an insurance card in a manilla folder. They'll get you squared away in no time.

 

Classic.

The big issue was that I still have my IL license. They have very specific rules of how to qualify a business in TN and if you don't meet them then you have to show proof of residency. Man I was the poster child for what they have written out.

Then they let slide several things that I knew I was waiting on documents for. #frustratedatIRP

 

Welcome to the idiocy of the Tn. Dept. of Revenue IRP dept. I have been dealing with these idiots for 20 years this year & it never fails to amaze me some of the stupid things they come up with from one year to the next.
A friend of mine from here in mcminnville is going monday also to renew his,i will ask him if anyone went postal while he was there.

 

It is mostly just the people who work there more than anything else.