IFTA — the International Fuel Tax Agreement — is how fuel taxes get split between the states you drive through. Buy fuel in Florida, burn it in Georgia: Georgia still wants its cut. Here's the plain-English version.
If you run a qualified motor vehicle (over 26,000 lbs, or 3+ axles) across state lines, you need IFTA. Your base jurisdiction issues one license and one set of decals — good in all 48 contiguous states and Canada.
File even for quarters with zero miles — a missing return triggers penalties.
Miles per state per quarter (your ELD tracks this — pull the report), plus every fuel receipt with date, location, gallons, and price. No receipts = the auditor estimates, and their estimate is never in your favor.
Late filing = penalty + interest per jurisdiction. Ignore it long enough and your IFTA license gets revoked — then you're buying trip permits state by state, which costs far more than the filing ever did.
We file IFTA for our carriers at $65/truck/quarter — you send the mileage and fuel data, we handle the returns. One less deadline to lose sleep over.
We vet every broker, negotiate every rate, and handle the paperwork — 8% per load, $0 upfront.
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