MCS-150 Biennial Update Missed “Inactive” Authority

Why not ask the FMCSA for an official answer instead of relying on random strangers? Isn't that how you got in this mess in the first place?

Their chat option is very convenient and fast. It can be found directly on their website.

 

Search bar….their is a very informative recent thread on this subject

 

Why don’t you just do the update yourself.

It’s so easy and takes about ten minutes if you take your time. Log into your account and submit it!

Curious how much money you tossed out the window for such an easy task..what other simple things are you throwing money away for?

 

I've had trouble assigning roles and getting error messages etc. a few times myself. The best thing you can do, IMO, is call and sit through the 30 minute wait or whatever it is and get a real human on the phone. They have always talked me through fixing whatever was broken on my portal.

 

Ten4. Your situation is the perfect example of why I would never pay anyone to handle regulatory/compliance tasks that can easily be done from the sleeper 24/7. Glad to hear you got your money back.

 

Last fall when the other similar thread got going I went in and checked my status, and it said updated last year. April is my month to update, and this year in February I received a letter telling me to update by the end of April.

I went in to the new system and went through the process of selecting my role, and received a message that I would be notified via email when my role was approved. I thought that was odd but sort of forgot about it. Last month I began trying again with error messages an the pending approval box stuck in a permanent state of buffering.

I did finally call and waited for 3 hours on hold before giving up. I then called our state licensing department and they gave me the number of our local FMCSA representative. She picked up immediately and sent me a new mcs150 form to fill out, which I returned to her. She then completed my update and all is well other than the websited still wasn't working for me. I did go in to see that my status has been updated in safer.

All this is to say that something that used to take just a few minutes in years past took me hours and hours to deal with this year.

 

I would recommend that you join ooida.

The only charge like $40 a year or less for a membership.

If you ever need any regulatory things done, like get your Authority or anything else, they can help you.

If you are a member, you can call them and ask them how to file anything like this type of a problem, and if you needed them to handle it they do it every single solitary day and they are experts at it.

I have called there many times and asked them things of this nature, and they would tell me if they filed it it would cost this much, but if you want to file it yourself here's how you do it.

They have been just a great resource, and if you know how to navigate through their system you can get discounts on tires and different things.

They also have a compliance department which if you have compliance questions they will answer them and they also can take care of compliance for you if you need that.

They also have tons of education and materials and they really can help you run your business better, in my opinion.

It's a very small amount of money to lay out for the benefits that you get.