By the TruckerNavi compliance team, led by Dmitry Borovoy, a New Jersey-licensed insurance producer and author of "Safety Manager: From Zero to Expert".
Short answer: four transactions cover almost everything that happens to an IRP account after the first set of plates. Renewal: you file the base state's renewal schedule with the actual miles the fleet ran in each jurisdiction from July 1 to June 30 of the year before (the Reporting Period under the IRP Plan), attach a current Form 2290 Schedule 1 for every truck at 55,000 lbs and up, and get back a new plate or sticker plus a cab card for each truck; miss the date and most states bill the full year anyway while the truck cannot legally cross a state line. Add a vehicle: a supplement application (New Jersey form MCS-IRP-1, New York form IRP-6, Texas a supplement in TxFLEET) with title or bill of sale, insurance, the USDOT number and TIN of the carrier responsible for safety, and a Schedule 1 or a bill of sale under 60 days old; back comes a cab card, or a temporary credential while it prints; delay means the truck sits. Delete a vehicle: the same supplement with the plate and cab card returned; back comes a fee credit that lives only if the replacement truck is on the same application. Transfer or replace plates: a supplement marked transfer or replacement, the original cab card, and payment for the weight difference or the replacement fee (New York $27.50 for plates with a cab card, New Jersey $13 for plates and a cab card); back comes a new cab card and, if the plate was lost, a new plate number. One rule sits under all four: at renewal the state does not care what you planned to run. It bills the share of miles you actually ran in each jurisdiction during the Reporting Period, and an estimate is allowed only for a fleet that ran no miles at all (Plan, Sections 315 and 320).
Everything below assumes the account already exists. If you are still deciding whether you need apportioned plates at all, which state can be your base, or what goes into the first application, that is covered in the IRP registration guide; how IRP differs from IFTA, New York HUT and Form 2290 is in this comparison. This article is only about what you do with an account that is already open.
Every base state runs the same four transactions under the IRP Plan, and the paperwork differs mostly in the form number. New Jersey uses form MCS-IRP-1 for every supplement, filed through the mCarrier portal or by mail to Motor Carrier Services in Trenton (NJ MVC). New York uses form IRP-6 (Schedule A and C), filed through OSCAR, by mail or by fax; the International Registration Bureau processes faxed changes within 72 hours (NY DMV). Texas runs everything as a supplement inside TxFLEET, online around the clock, and warns that any transaction can take up to 72 hours to process (TxDMV Information Packet, revised December 2025).
| Transaction | What you file | What comes back | Timing | What breaks if you are late |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renewal | The base state's renewal schedule with actual miles for the Reporting Period; Schedule 1 for every truck at 55,000 lbs and up; proof of address (NJ); payment through mCarrier (NJ), OSCAR or mail (NY), TxFLEET (TX) | A new plate or sticker and a new cab card for every truck in the fleet | NJ: packet 6-8 weeks out. NY: report 90 days out, application back 45 days before, payment 20 days before. TX: packet by email 45 days out, processing up to 72 hours | No grace period (NJ, FL). Full year billed (NJ, NY). FL penalty from the 11th day, GA 10% then 25%. The trucks sit |
| Add a vehicle | Supplement (NJ MCS-IRP-1, NY IRP-6, TX TxFLEET) with title or bill of sale, insurance, USDOT and TIN of the carrier responsible for safety, Schedule 1 or a bill of sale under 60 days | Cab card and plate; before that a Temporary Authority (NY, $5, up to 30 days) or whatever temporary credential the state issues | NY: fax processed in 72 hours, TA in 2 business days. TX: up to 72 hours. NJ: after the invoice is paid | No cab card or temporary credential means the truck cannot run interstate; Form 2290 is still due by the end of the month after first use |
| Delete a vehicle | Supplement with the plate and cab card returned (NJ accepts a statement of disposition) | A fee credit toward a replacement, only if the replacement is on the same application; otherwise nothing | At the sale. NY: unused credentials back within 60 days for a refund claim | Renew first and delete later: NJ refunds nothing after the effective date, NY bills the full year if the plates were not surrendered |
| Transfer or replace plates | Supplement marked transfer or replacement, the original cab card, payment for the weight difference or the replacement fee | A new cab card; a lost plate comes back with a new number (NY: always a different number) | NY: $27.50 for plates with a cab card, $2.50 for a cab card. NJ: $13. TX: small fee, duplicate cab card free | NY: old plates not returned within 30 days, account suspended. The credit is lost if the delete and the add are on different applications |
Two rules from the Plan shape all four rows. First, every apportioned vehicle in a fleet carries the same expiration date, so a truck added in month nine of the registration year expires with the rest of the fleet and is billed for the months that remain (IRP Plan, Section 315(e)). Second, trailers, semi-trailers and auxiliary axles registered anywhere get full reciprocity under Section 515 and are never apportioned, so adding or removing a tractor never touches a trailer's registration.
There is no national renewal date. The Plan lets each base jurisdiction either give every fleet the same expiration or stagger expirations across the year, and during a switch to staggered registration a fleet can be issued for anywhere between 6 and 18 months (Section 520). Most states stagger, which means your renewal month is tied to when the account was opened and is printed on your cab card. The five states below show how differently the window is built.
Before you open the renewal, four things have to be current, because the state checks them and the renewal stalls if any one is stale:
Expect the invoice to differ from last year even if the miles did not move. When a member jurisdiction changes its fee schedule, the others implement the change within 120 calendar days (Section 1205), so the per-jurisdiction rates behind your percentages shift during the year. If keeping the renewal month, the 2290 window and the biennial update straight across several trucks is the part that slips, that is what a Safety Compliance plan is for: the three dates sit on one calendar with someone watching it.
The Plan defines the Reporting Period as the twelve consecutive months immediately before July 1 of the calendar year that precedes the start of your registration year (IRP Plan, Article II). In practice: a registration year that begins January 1, 2027 is billed on miles from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. New Jersey's own example says the same thing from the other end: registration year 2022 used mileage year July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 (NJ Carrier Guide, section 15.0). One exception in the definition: if your registration year starts in July, August or September, the period that just closed on June 30 is too fresh, so the state uses the one before it.
Section 315(c) requires the renewal application to contain the actual distance the fleet ran in every jurisdiction during that period. Estimates are not an option if the fleet moved at all. Only a fleet that accrued no actual distance in the Reporting Period is billed on the average per-vehicle distance table that each state updates by March 31 (Section 320), and Texas adds that a fleet renewed on estimated distance must confirm at the next renewal that it still intends to operate interstate (TxDMV packet). Total distance means every mile the power units moved: loaded, empty, deadhead and bobtail, interstate and intrastate.
TxDMV publishes a list of what it calls irregular mileage hard stops, the patterns that pull a renewal into manual review: identical mileage reported in two states, actual mileage the same as last year, many mileage figures ending in zero, more than 250,000 miles on a single unit (TxDMV packet). Every base state looks for the same things even if it does not print the list.
| What is counted | Period | Where the data comes from (ELD, GPS, trip sheets) | How long to keep it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Actual distance in each jurisdiction | July 1 to June 30 of the year before the registration year; for a registration year starting in July, August or September, the period before that (Plan, Article II) | Trip records (IVDR): trip start and end dates, origin and destination, route, odometer, hubodometer or ECM readings at start and end, total distance, distance by jurisdiction, unit number (Section 1010(a)). GPS or ELD: a record at least every 15 minutes with the engine on, latitude and longitude to four decimal places, ECM odometer, or the dash odometer at trip start and end if there is no ECM (Section 1010(b)) | Plan: 3 years after the close of the registration year (Section 1000). NJ: 5 years. NY: 6 years, driver logs included. TX: 3 reporting periods plus the current one |
| Total distance | Same period | Every movement of the power units: loaded, empty, deadhead, bobtail, interstate and intrastate | Same |
| Summaries | Same period | Monthly per vehicle and per jurisdiction, quarterly per fleet, annual as a roll-up of the quarters (Section 1010(c)) | Same |
| Fleet with zero miles | A Reporting Period with no actual distance | The state's average per-vehicle distance table, updated by March 31 (Section 320); Texas asks at the next renewal for confirmation of interstate intent | Not applicable |
| What the auditor tests | An average of 3% of renewed fleets a year (Section 1025) | Records against Sections 1005 and 1010; nothing produced within 30 days of a written request: 20% of the year's fees, then 50%, then 100% (Section 1015) | Same as above |
One more line from TxDMV worth keeping: there is no such thing as an IRP-certified or IFTA-certified ELD (TxDMV). Buying a device does not make its output audit-ready; the output has to meet Section 1010(b), meaning a record at least every 15 minutes with the engine on, latitude and longitude to four decimal places, and the ECM odometer reading (IRP Plan, Section 1010(b)). Records that fail Section 1005(a), or that are not produced within 30 calendar days of a written request, cost 20 percent of the year's apportionable fees the first time, 50 percent the second and 100 percent from the third offense on (Section 1015), and every base jurisdiction audits an average of 3 percent of renewed fleets a year (Section 1025; TxDMV).
A truck added mid-year does not get its own mileage history. Section 425(a) of the Plan says the fees for an added vehicle are calculated according to the apportionment percentages from the registrant's initial application for that year, so the new truck inherits the fleet's state-by-state split and pays for the months left until the common expiration date (IRP Plan, Section 425). New Jersey describes the same thing in its own words: fees due each jurisdiction are prorated for the remaining months of the year using the most recent fee schedule, and the credential is mailed after the invoice is paid (NJ Carrier Guide, section 10.0).
The documents are the same set you gave the state for the first truck, just for one unit: proof of ownership (Texas asks for the Texas title or a Registration Purposes Only title; New York wants the title corrected first if the VIN, year or make changed), insurance in the registrant's name (New York requires form FS-20 on every added vehicle; New Jersey asks for a certificate of insurance at the automobile liability limit it lists on its IRP page), the USDOT number and TIN of the carrier responsible for safety, and the lease if the truck runs under someone else's authority (TxDMV packet; NY DMV; NJ MVC). If the truck is used, the used-truck guide covers what to check on the title before you get to this step.
Then the federal heavy vehicle use tax. Under 26 CFR 41.6001-2(b)(2)(i) a state that registers by gross weight must require proof of payment for any vehicle with a declared gross weight of 55,000 pounds or more, and the proof is a receipted Schedule 1 that shows this truck's VIN. The same regulation, at (b)(1), lets the state register a vehicle without proof if you present a bill of sale showing the truck was bought within the 60 days before the state received the application; the IRS instructions repeat it and add the part people forget: you must still file Form 2290 and pay the tax on time (Form 2290 instructions). That deadline is the last day of the month after the month of first use, and it is not tied to the registration date (IRS Trucking Tax Center). A truck first used in January owes a 2290 by the end of February. E-filing returns the watermarked Schedule 1 within minutes; a paper return can take up to six weeks, which for a mid-year add is the difference between a truck that works and one that waits. New Jersey adds a mechanical warning: if the VIN on the Schedule 1 is wrong by even one character, the state must reject it (NJ Carrier Guide, section 6.0). For registrations received in July, August or September, the previous period's Schedule 1 is accepted (26 CFR 41.6001-2(b)(4)). How the filing itself works, and what changed for the 2026-2027 period, is in the Form 2290 deadline guide.
While the cab card is in transit, the truck's legal status depends on the state:
The added truck also needs IFTA decals. New Jersey sells an additional set for $10 on a request on company letterhead, up to two sets online (NJ MVC), and the truck's fuel and miles go into the next quarterly return like everyone else's; the mechanics are in the IFTA quarterly filing guide.
The Plan treats a sale and a total loss the same way: the vehicle is withdrawn from the fleet. Section 435 makes the unused portion of the apportionable fee available for transfer to a replacement vehicle in the same fleet, and only subject to the law of each member jurisdiction may it be credited or refunded in money. Section 615 lets the base state demand the plate back, or a certification that it was destroyed, lost, stolen or held for re-use, and lets the state reassign that plate to the replacement truck (IRP Plan, Sections 435 and 615). The state practice under those two sections:
On the federal side, a truck sold before June 1 and not used for the rest of the tax period earns a credit on line 5 of the next Form 2290; the same applies to a truck destroyed or stolen before June 1, and any credit larger than the tax due comes back only as a refund on Form 8849, Schedule 6 (Form 2290 instructions). The sale itself, the title, the lien release and what the buyer needs from you, is in the guide to selling a semi truck.
Yes in most states, but the word transfer means two different things and mixing them up is expensive. Section 440(b) of the Plan requires every member jurisdiction to let a registrant transfer the registration of a withdrawn vehicle to a replacement vehicle, on that jurisdiction's own transfer terms, and leaves any charge for an increase in weight to state law (IRP Plan, Section 440). What moves is the registration and its unused fee. Whether the physical plate moves depends on the state.
A transfer is not a replacement. A replacement is a new plate or cab card for the same truck because the old one is lost or damaged; a transfer is the same registration on a different truck. New Jersey will not accept a transfer request on a replacement application, and the credit at a replacement carries over only when the plate was stolen and the original cab card comes back (NJ Carrier Guide, section 10.0).
Replacement is the cheapest transaction on the list and the one most often done wrong, because the state wants the old items back and puts a clock on it.
Until the new card arrives, the truck has whatever temporary credential the state issued and nothing else. Carry the credential the state issued; a photocopy of an old cab card is not it. The cab card lists every jurisdiction and the weight registered in each, the expiration date and any enforcement date, the VIN, the plate number, the unit number and the registrant's name and address (Section 610); an inspector matches those fields to the truck in front of him, and a copy proves nothing about the current status of the account.
The IRP account does not hold your MC number. What it holds, per vehicle, is the USDOT number and TIN of the carrier responsible for safety, the entity whose name goes on the door under 49 CFR 390.21 and whose safety record the truck feeds. New York's manual puts it plainly: the USDOT number listed at the vehicle level is the USDOT number of the individual or company responsible for the safe operation of the vehicle (NY IRP-8 manual). An MC number changes at FMCSA, and the state sees the result through the USDOT record, not through the IRP application. New Jersey adds one filter: a USDOT number registered as intrastate is not accepted for IRP, it has to be interstate (NJ MVC IRP FAQ).
When the carrier responsible for safety changes, because a lease ended or you moved from someone else's authority to your own, that is a supplement, not a note in the file. Texas lists changing the Carrier Responsible for Safety among the online supplements (TxDMV packet). New Jersey requires a lease of 30 days or more to be reflected as the motor carrier responsible for safety, requires you to notify the IRP Services Office when that lease ends, and states that the vehicle does not move until a new responsible carrier is on file (NJ Carrier Guide, section 6.0). New York asks at application whether safety responsibility will change during the year and handles name and address changes on IRP-6, with address changes due within 10 days of a move (NY DMV).
The reason the states are strict is PRISM. FMCSA's Performance and Registration Information Systems Management program alerts the state system when a carrier under a federal out-of-service order tries to register or renew a vehicle, and the state registration office can then deny, suspend or revoke the registration (FMCSA PRISM). Texas states it must deny or revoke under a federal OOS warning; New Jersey suspends the registration and requires the plates surrendered (TxDMV packet; NJ Carrier Guide). The same channel carries the MCS-150 check: the biennial update is due in the month set by the last digit of your USDOT number (1 is January, 2 is February, through 0 for October) and in the year set by the next-to-last digit (odd digit, odd years; even digit, even years), and any change of name or address has to be filed at once (FMCSA). Since May 14, 2026 those updates go through FMCSA's Motus system with a login.gov identity check; automatic deactivation of USDOT numbers for a missed biennial update has been paused since June 1, 2026, but the filing duty under 49 CFR 390.19T has not gone anywhere, and the FMCSA Contact Center is 1-800-832-5660. The mechanics of a Motus update are in the Motus registration guide, and how the biennial update sits next to UCR and BOC-3 is in this comparison.
The Plan itself contains no late fee. What it contains is Section 505: the base jurisdiction shall cancel, suspend or revoke any apportioned registration if the registrant fails to pay the apportionable fees (IRP Plan, Section 505). The cost of being late is therefore set state by state, and it comes in three shapes: a penalty in dollars or percent, a full year of fees for months you did not run, and a truck that cannot legally cross a state line until the new cab card exists.
| State | Renewal window | Replacement plates and cab card | Temporary credential | Late renewal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | Packet 6-8 weeks before expiration, staggered, mCarrier | $6 plates plus $7 cab card, $13 | 15 days for an online renewal or online plate replacement; trip permit $25 for 72 hours on a truck without apportioned plates; IFTA temporary permit $25 for 96 hours | No grace period, expiration date does not move, full year billed |
| New York | Report 90 days out, application 45 days before, payment 20 days before | $27.50 plates with cab card, $2.50 cab card | TA $5 per vehicle, up to 30 days, not for renewals | Full year billed if plates were not surrendered; refund claims within 60 days in four cases only |
| Texas | Packet by email 45 days out, TxFLEET, up to 72 hours | Small fee for a plate, duplicate cab card free | Per state rules on the day | Per state rules on the day; no corrections after payment |
| Florida | Renewal month printed on the plate, 10-month staggered, January to October; questions at (850) 617-3711 | Per state fee schedule | Per state fee schedule | Penalty from the 11th day, $5 to $250 by the tax due; enforcement from 12:01 a.m. on the first day of the next month |
| Georgia | The two months before the expiration month; month set by the first letter of the name | Per state fee schedule | Per state fee schedule | 10% for filing in the expiration month, 25% for paying after it |
Details behind the table. New Jersey has no grace period and does not move the expiration date: a registration that expired December 31 and is renewed in February is billed for January through December, and December stays the expiration month (NJ Carrier Guide, section 9.0). New York's version is the plate: if you do not surrender the apportioned plates and renew later, you are charged the registration fee for the entire year (NY DMV). Florida assesses the late penalty on the 11th day after expiration on a sliding scale: $5 when the license tax due is at least $5 but not more than $25, then $10, $15, $50 and $100 through the middle brackets, and $250 when the tax due is over $600, with enforcement from 12:01 a.m. on the first day of the month after expiration and no grace period (FLHSMV). Georgia charges a mandatory 10 percent late filing penalty on a renewal filed during the expiration month and a mandatory 25 percent late payment penalty on an invoice paid after the last day of that month (Georgia DOR). Texas does not print a penalty on its IRP pages, so the cost there is whatever the state's rules set on the day you renew, plus the fact that TxFLEET does not allow corrections after payment (TxDMV packet).
Underneath all of that sits the roadside consequence. An expired cab card means the truck is unregistered in every jurisdiction it enters, and the fee you eventually pay does not erase the citations written in between. Add the knock-on effects: New Jersey suspends both the IFTA and the IRP credentials if the fourth-quarter IFTA return is not filed (NJ MVC), a Temporary Authority in New York is not available for a renewal at all (NY DMV), and a trip permit bought to cover the gap is a per-trip cost that never comes back.
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Wait for the base state's renewal packet, then file it with the actual miles the fleet ran in each jurisdiction from July 1 to June 30 of the year before, a current Form 2290 Schedule 1 for every truck at 55,000 lbs and up, and proof of address where the state asks for it. New Jersey sends the schedule six to eight weeks before expiration and takes the renewal in mCarrier; New York mails a Renewal Report about 90 days out and wants the application back 45 days before expiration and payment 20 days before; Texas emails the packet 45 days out and renews in TxFLEET. Pay the invoice, and the new plate or sticker and cab cards follow. Nothing is renewed until the invoice is paid.
Actual distance by jurisdiction for the Reporting Period: the July 1 to June 30 year that closed most recently before your registration year starts, per Article II of the IRP Plan. A registration year starting January 1, 2027 reports July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. If the registration year starts in July, August or September, that just-closed period is skipped and the one before it applies. Estimated miles are allowed only when the fleet ran no actual miles at all in the period. Count every mile the power units moved, loaded or empty, and keep the trip records and ELD data behind the figures for at least three years after the registration year closes, longer in New Jersey (five) and New York (six).
File a supplement with your base state: MCS-IRP-1 in New Jersey, IRP-6 in New York, an online supplement in TxFLEET in Texas. Attach proof of ownership, insurance in the registrant's name, the USDOT number and TIN of the carrier responsible for safety, and either a receipted Schedule 1 showing the truck's VIN or a bill of sale dated within the last 60 days if the truck is at 55,000 lbs or more. The fee is prorated for the months left in the registration year using the fleet's existing apportionment percentages. New York can fax a $5 Temporary Authority within two business days; elsewhere the truck waits for the cab card.
File the delete supplement and send the plate and cab card back with it: MCS-IRP-1 in New Jersey, IRP-6 with DELETE VEHICLE marked in New York, a supplement in TxFLEET in Texas, where you remove and destroy the plate. Do it before the buyer registers the truck; in New Jersey a buyer can present a copy of the title five business days after the sale and have the plate cancelled. If a replacement truck is going on, put the delete and the add on the same application, because that is the only way the unused fee carries over. Deleting alone does not produce a refund in New Jersey or New York except in narrow cases.
Usually yes, on your base state's terms. Section 440 of the IRP Plan requires each jurisdiction to allow the registration of a withdrawn vehicle to be transferred to a replacement vehicle, and lets the state charge for any increase in weight. New Jersey moves the credit only within one supplement with the original cab card returned; New York bills the weight difference when moving to a heavier truck and gives no refund when moving to a lighter one; Texas keeps the plate with the old truck and carries the fee as a credit exchange onto a new plate. Not every jurisdiction on your cab card allows fee transfers, so part of the fee may be billed in full.
Order a duplicate from the base state before the truck moves again. In New York a replacement cab card is $2.50 and replacement plates with a cab card are $27.50, filed on IRP-6; if the items were stolen, police form MV-78B makes it free; any remaining plate and the old cab card go back within 30 days or the account can be suspended. In New Jersey replacement plates are $6 and a cab card is $7, on MCS-IRP-1, with a 15-day temporary for an online plate replacement. In Texas a duplicate Original cab card is free online. A photocopy of the old card is not a credential.
The state bills the year anyway and may add a penalty. New Jersey has no grace period, keeps the original expiration date and charges the full January-to-December year even when you renew in February. New York charges the full year if the plates were not surrendered. Florida adds a late penalty from the 11th day after expiration, $5 to $250 depending on the tax due, and enforces from 12:01 a.m. on the first day of the next month. Georgia adds 10 percent for filing in the expiration month and 25 percent for paying after it. Under Section 505 of the Plan unpaid fees lead to cancellation, and until the new cab card exists the truck is unregistered on the road.
The MCS-150 is not renewed, it is updated, every 24 months on FMCSA's schedule: the month is set by the last digit of your USDOT number (1 is January, 0 is October) and the year by the next-to-last digit (odd digit, odd years). Since May 14, 2026 the update is filed in FMCSA's Motus system through a login.gov account with identity verification. Do it before the IRP renewal, because the state runs a PRISM check: New Jersey states that if the carrier responsible for safety has not updated its federal filings, FMCSA will order the state to halt the vehicles and block the renewal. Deactivation for a missed update has been paused since June 1, 2026; the duty under 49 CFR 390.19T remains.
Only with a valid credential in the truck. In New Jersey an online renewal on an account with no outstanding balance produces a temporary apportioned authorization good for 15 days from the new expiration date. In New York a Temporary Authority is not issued for renewals, which is why the IRB asks for payment at least 20 days before expiration. The IRP Plan lets a base state issue temporary evidence of registration for up to 60 days, but whether it does so for a renewal is the state's choice. If the old cab card has expired and no temporary exists, the truck is unregistered.
First check that the invoice was actually paid: New Jersey mails credentials only after payment, and New York needs the payment 20 days before expiration to deliver on time. Then ask the base state for a duplicate or check the portal: New York issues a replacement cab card for $2.50, Texas prints a duplicate Original cab card online for free. Do not run on a photocopy. If the new credentials arrived early and the old period has not ended, carry both cab cards, as Section 605(b) of the Plan requires.
Under Section 435 of the IRP Plan the remaining fee is available for transfer to a replacement vehicle in the same fleet, and a cash credit or refund exists only where state law allows it. New Jersey gives the credit only when the plate transfer is completed on the same application and issues no partial refunds. New York applies it only when the delete and the add are on the same application. Texas carries it as a one-for-one credit exchange, never between accounts or fleets, and only the Texas portion if the exchange is filed later. A money refund after the effective date is close to nonexistent: New Jersey refunds nothing after the effective date, even by one day.
You need proof of payment for that VIN if the truck is at 55,000 pounds or more, because 26 CFR 41.6001-2 requires the state to ask for it. If you bought the truck within the last 60 days, a bill of sale lets the state register it without the Schedule 1, but the IRS still requires you to file Form 2290 and pay the tax by the last day of the month after the month of first use. If the state receives your application in July, August or September, the previous period's Schedule 1 is accepted. The VIN on the Schedule 1 must be complete and match the title exactly.
If the truck is the same and the cab card is simply wrong, it is a credential correction: MCS-IRP-1 in New Jersey, and in New York the title is corrected first and then IRP-6 is filed. If the documents show a genuinely different VIN, the state treats it as a different vehicle: delete the old unit, add the new one, and file Form 2290 for the new VIN. Changing a VIN on an already filed 2290 requires a written statement to the IRS explaining why.
By supplement at any time. A weight increase is billed for the difference, prorated for the remaining months on the current fee schedule, and a new cab card is issued after payment. A decrease is allowed only in limited cases and produces no credit, so it is better done at renewal. New Jersey does not process weight changes on the renewal application itself, only before or after it. Any increase to 55,000 pounds or more requires Schedule 1, and if the taxable gross weight moves the truck into a higher 2290 category during the period, the extra tax is due on line 3 of Form 2290.
No. Apportioned registration takes effect when the state processes the supplement or issues a temporary credential, and Texas states that corrections cannot be made after payment. For the days before that, the truck runs on a trip permit (New Jersey sells one for $25, valid 72 hours) or, if empty, on a hunter's permit, which every member jurisdiction must offer for a minimum fee under Section 530 of the Plan. A trip made without any of those remains a violation that a later supplement does not cure.
The IFTA license is one per company and stays as it is; the decals are per vehicle. A new truck needs its own decal set, $10 for an additional set in New Jersey, and a sold truck's decals come off. Quarterly returns keep covering every truck that ran during the quarter, and in New Jersey a missing fourth-quarter return suspends both the IFTA and the IRP credentials. Nothing about IRP changes the quarterly filing dates.
The IRP Plan requires three years after the close of the registration year the application belongs to, which means the Reporting Period records, not only the current year. Base states go longer: New Jersey five years after the close of the registration year, New York six years including driver logs, Texas three reporting periods plus the current one. If the records fail the Plan's standards or are not produced within 30 days of a written request, the state assesses 20 percent of the year's apportionable fees the first time, 50 percent the second and 100 percent from the third offense on.
Expect a block. States run every renewal through PRISM, and New Jersey states outright that if the carrier responsible for safety has not updated its federal filings, FMCSA will order New Jersey to halt the vehicles and prevent renewal, automatically. Texas says it must deny or revoke registration under a federal out-of-service warning. Update the MCS-150 first: since May 14, 2026 that is done in FMCSA's Motus system through login.gov, on the biennial schedule set by the digits of your USDOT number. Deactivation for a missed update has been paused since June 1, 2026, but the obligation under 49 CFR 390.19T stands, so update before you renew.