You have
18 months.
The clock started
without you.
The day FMCSA issued your USDOT number, a federal countdown began — a mandatory safety audit within a year, dozens of 49 CFR obligations in a precise order, and authority revocation if you miss it. Most new owner-operators learn this from a PDF and a forum thread. Enter your number; we turn the whole regulation into a dated roadmap.
- Day 1Authority granted
- Week 1Insurance + process agent
- Month 1Drug & alcohol consortium
- Month 6Records · ELD · maintenance
- Month 11⚠ New-entrant SAFETY AUDIT
- Month 18Permanent authority
Your real calendar is generated from your authority date — every obligation dated to the day.
- 30,000+
- carriers register with FMCSA each year
- 12 mo.
- until your mandatory new-entrant safety audit
- Revoked
- what a failed audit does to your authority
From a raw USDOT number to an audit-ready year
Enter your USDOT & authority date
The day FMCSA issued your number started an 18-month federal clock. We anchor everything to it.
Get your dated 49 CFR calendar
Every obligation — drug & alcohol, ELD, DQF, maintenance, the audit — in the exact order the regulation demands.
Walk in audit-ready
We surface your safety-audit window early and hand you the precise packet the auditor asks for.
Document tools assume you already understand compliance. Managed-services firms charge for a department you can't afford. Nobody sequences the first 18 months for an owner-operator who just got their number. That gap is the whole point of this.
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