By Evan Reid, Founder of Haul Handbook · Updated Jul 22, 2026
New York's signature temporary credential is the highway use tax trip certificate: a 25 dollar, 72-hour stand-in for the HUT registration that occasional operators buy instead of opening a full account. Registration and fuel trip permits for New York exist too, but the state routes them through its IRP unit and appointed permit services rather than publishing a flat public fee schedule.
The trip permit (registration side)
This credential answers for registration. Without it, a vehicle whose cab card does not list New York has no legal registration standing in the state.
The fuel permit (tax side)
This credential answers for the state's highway or fuel tax when there is no IFTA license (or, in the weight-distance states, no tax account) behind the truck.
- Stands in for
- HUT certificate of registration and decal, and the HUT return filing that goes with them (New York's weight-distance tax; fuel tax for interstate carriers runs through IFTA)
- Who needs it
- Carriers that only occasionally operate a motor vehicle over the HUT weight threshold in New York and do not want to register, get a decal, and file HUT returns.
Worth knowing
New York does not publish a separate flat-fee fuel trip permit on its tax pages: fuel tax for interstate carriers is handled through IFTA licensing, while the HUT trip certificate covers the state's own weight-distance tax for occasional trips. A carrier making regular New York runs should open HUT and IFTA accounts instead; ten trip certificates a year is the hard ceiling.
Where these fit in the New York permit stack
Temporary permits are the exception path. The standing credentials they replace are IRP apportioned registration and the New York IFTA license. Oversize loads use a different permit family entirely, covered in New York oversize and overweight permits, and the full picture of every state permit lives in New York trucking permits.