This one stop shop provides you with all the information you need to work as a trucker in Wisconsin.

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Online services

• IRP renewals/changes and IFTA quarterly returns, renewals and decals
  
• 72-hour trip permits​
• Unladen trip-permits
• Insurance filings by underwriters
• Pay past due IFTA and IRP and reinstate accounts after revocation/suspension 
• US DOT number (U.S. DOT website)
• US DOT number (Wisconsin State Patrol brochure)
• Oversize-overweight permits (Wisconsin only)
• Driver license status​​​ ​(check status, expiration date, tier level, Fed Med info, physical & testing requirements/school bus drivers)​
• WINNDOT Cross-border permit portal (Multi state application)
  

Interstate vehicle credentials (cross state lines)

• Electronic Credential Pilot
• 30 mile border zone reciprocity
• License plates/vehicle registration (IRP)
• Fuel tax (IFTA)
• Trip permits (72 hour) (Hunters/unladen)
• IRP-IFTA carrier education, record keeping and audit
• IRP Charter School Buses
• Unified carrier registration (UCR)
• Motor carrier fees

Intrastate vehicle credentials (operate within Wisconsin only)

• Electronic Credential Pilot
• License plates/vehicle registration (intra)
• Titles (inter and intra)
• Motor carrier fees

Both interstate and intrastate vehicles

• Electronic Credential Pilot
• Unified Registration System (U.S. DOT website)
• US DOT number (U.S. DOT website)
• Insurance
• For hire authority
• Heavy vehicle use tax (HVUT)
• Companies renting vehicles to motor carriers

Oversize/overweight vehicle permits

• Permits
• Weight restriction programs​​
• Frozen road declaration
• Class II roads
• Springtime posted roads
• Motor carrier fees

Commercial driver license (inter and intra)

• Commercial driver license (CDL)
• Medical requirements

Motor carrier enforcement and truck safety

• Motor carrier enforcement
• US DOT number (Wisconsin State Patrol brochure)
• Safety and weight enforcement facilities (SWEF)
• Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP)
• State Patrol
• Hours-of-service regulations (U.S. DOT website)
• North American Fatigue Management Program (NAFMP at the US DOT website)​

Forms and publications

• Motor carrier forms and publications
• Long Truck operator map
• Wisconsin Commercial Driver’s Manual

Freight movement (road, rail, water or sky)

• Freight movement
• Freight Summit​

Related links:

• Plans and projects
• Milwaukee travel and congestion information

Questions about the content of this page:

Motor Carrier Services, irp-ifta@dot.wi.gov