DOT and MC question

A DOT number is not required for most intrastate operations.

Do I Need a USDOT Number?

 

An MC, motor carrier, number is required if you are hauling for hire. If you are a landscaping company using a 10 wheel dump truck, crossing state lines, you would need a DOT number, but not an MC number

 

Does he do hazmat? If so that's why he has a DOT number. He also could have gotten thinking he needed it.

 

The state could require it, but the feds don't. Just because they don't require it, doesn't mean you can't have one.

 

No, they are separate things. I worked for a company that recycled tires. I hauled both the scrap to the land fill, (we need a waste hauled permit), and the rubber mulch to their customers. We didnt need an MC number because we were not hauling for hire.

 

I ran Texas for approximately a month with only my DOT number. NM plates. I could haul for hire in Texas and NM. I had to buy permits to run in TX. Some other states will allow you to run, but you must be permitted by them.