Trucking paperwork, handled. Since 1966.
Getting your DOT and MC numbers, keeping them active, or closing them down: tell us your goal and we’ll handle the FMCSA side.
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Get your own authority
You’ve got the truck or the customers. We file for your DOT and MC numbers right the first time, and tell you what has to be on file before you can haul.
Get my authorityKeep your authority active
Biennial update due? MC number revoked? DOT number gone inactive? Tell us what happened. We’ll get you back in good standing.
Keep my numbers activeShut it down clean
Selling, retiring, or taking time off? We’ll tell you whether to close out or just pause, and file it so you can come back later.
Close out my companyThree steps. Most of them are ours.
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Call or send a note. Plain words are fine. You don’t need to know which filing it takes. That’s our job.
We handle it with FMCSA
We know what the agency wants and how to get it through.
You get back to driving
We follow it through until it’s done. You get back to work.
Real people who know trucking. Since 1966.
DNA is Don Norman Associates. Don and Linda Norman started the firm in Washington, DC in 1966, back when trucking authority came from the ICC. Linda still works with us. We work with FMCSA every day, and we’ve helped more than 115,000 carriers. When you call, a person who does this work answers. We’re a private company, not the government or FMCSA.
- Founded in Washington, DC · We work with FMCSA every day
- 703-821-0000 · Mon–Fri, 9–5 ET
- 2.1 million authority documents in our own archive
FMCSA compliance services from a firm founded in 1966
We handle the federal side for motor carriers, and back up the compliance providers and law firms who serve them. That means starting a trucking company with your own operating authority, keeping your DOT and MC numbers active with the biennial update, UCR, MC authority reinstatement, and DOT reactivation, and closing a trucking company the right way. Need a copy of your MC letter? Order it at GetMyMCLetter, often within hours. IFTA, IRP, and 2290 go to our sister company, Consultran.
We speak FMCSA’s language so you don’t have to.
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One call or one form. That’s the whole first step.